4/11/23: Where It Really Counts!

Another week, another opportunity to get better!

But First, A Chuckle!

"My English teacher said I had to write 1000 words on the new Margaret Atwood novel. I managed to do about 35 before the librarian asked me to leave.”

Helpful Stuff

Here is a link to our free tutoring sign-in sheet on TPT to help you keep track of who shows up and when.

Please leave a review if you found it helpful —the reviews really go a long way to help our store!

Hope it helps!

Recommendations

Here’s a hard-hitting message I heard on one of my favorite podcasts recently, The Mindset Mentor with Rob Dial: just learning about how to improve is not actually improving.

I have caught myself walking dangerously close to this land of comfy self-deception where thinking/learning/journaling about  growing as a person is a pseudo-reward instead of actually using and applying the knowledge I’ve learned.

The actual growth comes from the moment we almost lose our tempers, or we don’t bite our tongue, or we lack patience, etc. —basically every opportunity we have to improve our lives in the ways we want.

This is POWERFUL.

Instead of ONLY learning about what we should do and how we should do it (personal improvement), we need to capitalize and look for those moments in our day where we get to implement the strategies, tactics, and new ways of thinking that we have studied and learned.

How often do we read or listen to a podcast and think to ourselves: “well, I’m done with my personal development for the day!”

Let’s stop lying to ourselves because we are not helping anyone, especially not ourselves, by not looking at ourselves and our behavior honestly.

Let’s seize the moment and start acting like our better selves!

Here is the link to the episode (entitled “Life Is A Classroom”) on Spotify if you would like to listen in more detail!

A Little Inspiration

This is one of my favorite inspirational quotes by Teddy Roosevelt. Just think of the word “man” as “person” to be more inclusive!
​

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
― Theodore Roosevelt
​

As always, please forward this to any teacher that could benefit from this message and help spread the love & positive vibes!

Leave a comment with Facebook below or you can always message us on Facebook here.

Keep changing the world,
Charlie with Shining Scholar Education

P.S. Consider joining our TPT Affiliate Program for 25% commissions here!

Want to join our email list? Click below!
MS ELAR teachers Click here!
HS ELAR teachers Click here!
And check out our TPT store here!