To be a Legendary Teacher one needs to develop a good sense of themselves as to why they actually want to be a teacher in the first place or to want to even stay in teaching. This being that the pressures of modern teaching as much as they are often stressful and at times very strange, they are still workable.
This is where the right mindset comes into play. To develop this mindset one really needs to believe that there is some method amongst all of the madness (and there is).
This mindset begins with the understanding that everything in teaching (as in life) is just a moment or part of a phase and your perceptions to this. As William Shakespeare so eloquently stated that….”nothing is good or bad other than our meaning that makes it so.”
Another aspect of this mindset that will see you through is the notion of “true grit.” This is where you find something to believe in beyond the chaos and have faith that it will come to fruition. In our modern teaching lives (and again our lives in general) with instant gratification, I feel we have lost our sense of this somewhat.
To do this effectively one must gain clarity as to what is it that you truly want in your teaching life and then where you want to go with this. To explain this a little further it’s also about the understanding that true staying power can only come through owning our truth to it, and then subsequently persevering with it.
At times just persevering with this is just continuing to be present and to keep showing up for the long haul. This means getting out of bed each and every school day believing what your are doing as a teacher is making a difference. This difference doesn’t have to be huge or life changing but it just has to be present in your existing vibration. Everything stems from this and flows to everything else you influence as a teacher. Your self-belief will determine how much abundance you will also attract into your immediate vicinity with this.
The most effective self-help tool that I have found that really assists me with this is meditation. Now before you all go freaking out about this being all new agey or weird or just not for you, it can be re-phrased any way you want it.
It can be alone time, time with self, self-stillness time, self-reflection time, time with God, time with the Universe, time with your soul, time with spirit or just about anything else you want to name it as.
This my friends is so simple, yet so effective. It is the time you cannot afford not to have with yourself. And believe me when I say that the wonders of practicing this to gain a better sense of yourself (and your teaching) is far beyond anything you could ever imagine.
