Hi again - Tonight will be short and sweet. It is important to have a back-up plan and be flexible. Today was a day that I needed that advice. Today was the kind of day that was written about in the children's book "The very bad, no good,terrible day." But it is ok.
I know that tomorrow will be extra special because of it.
I did accomplish a few goals and I celebrated them. I read some positive blogs and articles and made a very difficult phone call which was a accomplishment.
Pay Pal messed me up with something and instead of loosing it I was calm and collected. This is a good lesson for life - be calm. When you get upset over things that you have no control over you never can win. So I was cal and then envisioned a solution. Computer glitches happen and this one could have cost me an awful lot had I not caught it. My classes today were fair and one in particular drove me bananas. I kept cool though and was flexible enough to change my lesson agenda/plan. This is how life works sometimes. One of my favorite sayings is "You plan and plan, and GD laughs." How true. The good thing was that no administrator came in to see that I was not doing my original lesson plan from my planbook. I needed to improvise and go with the flow of this particular class. Another life lesson...be flexible and change when necessary. When I got home I was greeted (or in this case, not greeted) by a sick dog. The poor guy. I put on my nurse's hat and calmed and cuddled him with TLC (only pet owners would understand this...that a dog is a person). As I type, those two big brown eyes are looking up at me and his head is on my lap (I am sitting on the bed to be near him). This is yet another lesson in life...appreciate your health and take the time to care for others. We all need caring and TLC at times. No one is an island. Then dinner did not exactly turn out as I would have hoped, but my children (young men) smiled and ate (actually one went out with friends after - probably to eat). Yes another life lesson...follow a proven recipe and don't make up your own thing. When something works go with it. So I will do the same in turn keying things that work. Then the PayPal mix-up got me frazzled but I ended up laughing at the craziness of the mix-up. Someone was trigger happy when they deleted the amount from my account and bank THREE TIMES. How good it was that I loooked over my account. It did not pay to get mad - I gave myself a few seconds to be frazzled and then took it into my own hands. All in all, it was a good day. I am alive. I am in my home. I am enjoying life. Today some things went wrong, but all really is right. Keep a positive attitude on life and positive things will come your way. I rambled on a bit, but this is what a blog is about. Enjoy! Tomorrow will be a Terrific Tuesday!
-Laurie
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
SUNDAY SUN SETS
Here it is Sunday night. The dishes are cleaned and the dogs are walked. I sit here at my desk with my list of goals that I want to achieve this week. What is the most important and what is the least. What can I get help with from others and what can I do to help myself grow as a person. This is a very packed week for me and I just had the sad news of a death in my friendship circle of friends,which means all plans must be pushed aside to attend the funeral on Tuesday.
Thinking of my short-term goals, I have made lesson plans for my classes and written out my weekly schedule of meetings. I made a promise to myself to surround myself with positive people, and I have a plan to do that this week. I had a SmartGoal that by the end of November I would have at least one website up and running. I will have that goal met by tomorrow night (I just have to figure out Filezilla - I have the site made, but am not sure how that works).
This month has been a good one and I have made strides in helping myself and others. Now I need to make attainable and measurable goals for December. In December I have so much I would like to accomplish. Some people think I am crazy and overworked, but I am driven by my enthusiasm and positive outlook. I just wanted to write to let you know that writing steps and goals is always worth while. Never depend on your mind to remember things. When they are written down they are easier to see, believe and do. Let's encourage each other and cheer each other on. I hope that my blog touches some lives. I hope that I can help others and others can keep me going.
As for now - I am going to do what my body is telling me it needs... rest and sleep. I am also going to give some love to one of my dogs who is under the weather. I hope he will be ok - He is rarely ill but is not doing well tonight. I will give him an extra hug for everyone out there.
Sweet Dreams and Positive Thoughts are wished to everyone out there. Let's all plan our December goals. Remember a Smart Goal is one that is attainable, measurable and has a time limit. For example, by the end of December I will be able to set up some web-pages with 85% accuracy by myself and I will be able to help a minimum of three people online. These goals are realistic, attainable and have a date by which they will be assessed(measured). By the end of December I will have mastered one new illusion with coins, rope or cards. This is attainable, assessable and realistic. By the end of December I will have spoken with and learned to turnkey from at least four positive and successful mentors, people successful and positive, and have read at least four positive articles.
Good luck to all of us as we wind November down and begin the wintry month of December.
Thinking of my short-term goals, I have made lesson plans for my classes and written out my weekly schedule of meetings. I made a promise to myself to surround myself with positive people, and I have a plan to do that this week. I had a SmartGoal that by the end of November I would have at least one website up and running. I will have that goal met by tomorrow night (I just have to figure out Filezilla - I have the site made, but am not sure how that works).
This month has been a good one and I have made strides in helping myself and others. Now I need to make attainable and measurable goals for December. In December I have so much I would like to accomplish. Some people think I am crazy and overworked, but I am driven by my enthusiasm and positive outlook. I just wanted to write to let you know that writing steps and goals is always worth while. Never depend on your mind to remember things. When they are written down they are easier to see, believe and do. Let's encourage each other and cheer each other on. I hope that my blog touches some lives. I hope that I can help others and others can keep me going.
As for now - I am going to do what my body is telling me it needs... rest and sleep. I am also going to give some love to one of my dogs who is under the weather. I hope he will be ok - He is rarely ill but is not doing well tonight. I will give him an extra hug for everyone out there.
Sweet Dreams and Positive Thoughts are wished to everyone out there. Let's all plan our December goals. Remember a Smart Goal is one that is attainable, measurable and has a time limit. For example, by the end of December I will be able to set up some web-pages with 85% accuracy by myself and I will be able to help a minimum of three people online. These goals are realistic, attainable and have a date by which they will be assessed(measured). By the end of December I will have mastered one new illusion with coins, rope or cards. This is attainable, assessable and realistic. By the end of December I will have spoken with and learned to turnkey from at least four positive and successful mentors, people successful and positive, and have read at least four positive articles.
Good luck to all of us as we wind November down and begin the wintry month of December.
THOUGHTS ON SUNDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
The weekend is coming to a close. Four days without teaching. Four days to sit and think. Sometimes I think of myself as a failure, not yet reaching my potential. Other times I consider myself 'The Little Engine That Could.' I sit nightly and go through my goals and lists, and proudly cross off the ones that I have accomplished or completed. But I am never finished, because new ideas, goals and thoughts get written, almost faster than I can complete the others. That is what life is about. Here re some of my philosophies:
-Life is like a deck of cards. Sometimes you get a good hand, and sometimes a not so good one, but you know that nothing ever stays the same and you need to play with the cards you have until another hand is dealt.
-Today's problems are soon history, replaced by new ones that you are challenged to solve. Nothing stays good r bad forever.
-Think positive and go for the gold, but remember that rest is a key to life and get sleep.
-No one can do everything, and no one has all of the luck. Everyone has something, but some people just don't advertise their 'something.'
-The only 'perfect person' is someone who never tries anything, so never has the opportunity to fail.
-It is not a sin to have a messy home.Sometimes life takes over and there is no time to clean - you choose --> life with family or scrubbing the floor...I would choose family life.
-You need to give respect to get it.
-Don't go around thinking that everyone burdens you and you are the victim of everything bad. GD has better things to do than choose you to have all of the heartaches. Everyone has them - but you need to be mature enough to let go of them and don;t let them overpower you. If you can't do this, that is ok, but get some help fro a friend in making small steps to get there.
-Make peace with your past so it won't screw up your present.
-It's never too late to have a happy child-hood. But the second one is up to you and no one else
-Friends are the family that we choose ourselves
I have written a lot and could go on and on. I am here thinking about life and what I want from it. Life is not tied up with a bow but it is a gift. I want to be as successful as possible (more than monetary success). I want to be able to help as many as I can, and be helped by others. I want to have people respect me and touch many lives.
I am on a mission at the moment to not only become the best teacher that I can, but to create an internet career that can not only help me, but help others. I will keep you posted on happenings and things in my life.
About me personally, I am a mother of two young adult men, two dogs and a teacher of many. I teach in the South Bronx during the day at a poverty-stricken inner city school, and afternoons and weekends at a suburban after school program where the student come from professional and middle to upper class families. I love both my jobs. I help out at times in an animal shelter and am on the Board of my Condominium complex. I have a sister who lives about 40 miles away with her husband and family, a niece in graduate school in the midwest and a father in Florida. My mother, GD bless her soul, died in 1986. I love music, art, puppeteering (ventriloquism) and sleight of hand (although I am not so good at this). I write poems and parody songs and love to laugh. I hope that I am a good friend and I hope that this blog gets me through good and stressful times.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
-Laurie
-Life is like a deck of cards. Sometimes you get a good hand, and sometimes a not so good one, but you know that nothing ever stays the same and you need to play with the cards you have until another hand is dealt.
-Today's problems are soon history, replaced by new ones that you are challenged to solve. Nothing stays good r bad forever.
-Think positive and go for the gold, but remember that rest is a key to life and get sleep.
-No one can do everything, and no one has all of the luck. Everyone has something, but some people just don't advertise their 'something.'
-The only 'perfect person' is someone who never tries anything, so never has the opportunity to fail.
-It is not a sin to have a messy home.Sometimes life takes over and there is no time to clean - you choose --> life with family or scrubbing the floor...I would choose family life.
-You need to give respect to get it.
-Don't go around thinking that everyone burdens you and you are the victim of everything bad. GD has better things to do than choose you to have all of the heartaches. Everyone has them - but you need to be mature enough to let go of them and don;t let them overpower you. If you can't do this, that is ok, but get some help fro a friend in making small steps to get there.
-Make peace with your past so it won't screw up your present.
-It's never too late to have a happy child-hood. But the second one is up to you and no one else
-Friends are the family that we choose ourselves
I have written a lot and could go on and on. I am here thinking about life and what I want from it. Life is not tied up with a bow but it is a gift. I want to be as successful as possible (more than monetary success). I want to be able to help as many as I can, and be helped by others. I want to have people respect me and touch many lives.
I am on a mission at the moment to not only become the best teacher that I can, but to create an internet career that can not only help me, but help others. I will keep you posted on happenings and things in my life.
About me personally, I am a mother of two young adult men, two dogs and a teacher of many. I teach in the South Bronx during the day at a poverty-stricken inner city school, and afternoons and weekends at a suburban after school program where the student come from professional and middle to upper class families. I love both my jobs. I help out at times in an animal shelter and am on the Board of my Condominium complex. I have a sister who lives about 40 miles away with her husband and family, a niece in graduate school in the midwest and a father in Florida. My mother, GD bless her soul, died in 1986. I love music, art, puppeteering (ventriloquism) and sleight of hand (although I am not so good at this). I write poems and parody songs and love to laugh. I hope that I am a good friend and I hope that this blog gets me through good and stressful times.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
-Laurie
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