It’s Sunday September 11, 2011 and I am sitting in a semi comfortable chair in Bulgaria feeling a wicked cold about ready to attack my immune system. Bring on the herbal teas! This day feels like as good of a day as any to contemplate the next school year. September 11th was a tragedy, and there are times when I think about that day it still makes me upset and angry. But the truth is, the biggest truth, that I have learned while being in the Peace Corps is that we only have now. We can make the present, the best that we have, because we can’t change the past, we can learn from it, but we can’t change it, and the future hasn’t been written yet, so says Doc Brown. So here are some changes in my life I will commit to right now, to make myself and better person.
1: I will begin the exercise program Slim in 6 and complete it
2: No more cola
3: I will read one book a week
4: I will plan all of my lessons fully before the next week begins
5: I will plan one event with my students a month
6: I will take some time out for me
7: I will enjoy my time left in the Peace Corps
Now I am human and I know that I will probably falter, but having goals written will help me have something to reference in those cold and dark days of winter.
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Very well stated. I think you can take the “we can’t change the past” and directly insert that into your teaching practice. As teachers we inherit our students and their entire library of past experiences, both positive and negative. We do not have the time to dwell on what they should have learned before they got to us; we simply need to figure out where they are now and build them up from that point.
Have a great school year!
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Doc Brown is a truly wise spiritual teacher. Also, as goals are aided by focus, I think you should take one of those goals and place it on a pedestal, to be completed at all costs, for the fate of the universe depends on it.