Create Your Day

For many teachers Friday is the best day of the week.  It means relief from the hectic schedule of early mornings and late nights, from emotional meltdowns with students and sometimes parents and struggles with learning and discipline.   You have to wonder is it possible to have that liberated Friday feeling on a Monday? 

It is but it requires a disciplined mind and a willingness to embrace a new kind of thinking.   Creating your day means you believe in the power of intentional thinking.  That you believe that the thoughts you have when you start your day will actually affect what happens.   This paradigm shift is a life altering change.  

The power of intentions already shapes what you do.   It also shapes the physical world around you.  If you intend to mow the grass, you eventually mow it and the grass itself is changed.  Intention means you have a plan or design in mind.  Your plan has an outcome.   The power of self directed intention is a creative process and you share it with everyone on this planet because each one of us has intentions for good or ill.   Your intentions are communicated through you interactions with others.  Your words and actions along with a multitude of non-verbal cues let others know what you desire. 

Imagine the power of this kind of thinking at work in your classroom.  You imagine a day in which students are excited about learning, a day in which kindness and respect become contagious, a day in which your colleagues are excited about best practices and share without ego or judgment.   This day allows for the best in education, because all those words in your mission statement don’t just take up space on your school’s website they are translated into actions.

Creating your day is not just idle daydreaming; it’s the possibility for a better today.  Before you dismiss this completely try it, create your own paradigm shift, imagine what you want  and then act as if it’s already happening.    

When you do this you become part of a growing movement in thinking.  You have changed the paradigm of what you see, how you think and what you do.  Your worldview has just expanded in an infinite number of ways.  

George Bernard Shaw said,  “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don’t believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances that they want and if they can’t find the, make them.”