Mary’s Blog:
Every chapter of this book has shifted my perception of my world a
little bit. Being the board tilted my perception even more. I, as many people
do, often blame others for what happens to me. But in this chapter I was
presented with a new way of thinking. Putting the blame on others takes all of
your power, it makes it where the situation seems helpless because it is out of
your realm. Instead in the new way of looking at things you take that power
back on to your "board" you have control of situations, or how you
perceive the situation.
I try to apply all of the chapters I am reading to my own life and this
one is no different. I have been really stressed out lately and often blame it
on my kids, my students, homework, time. But this is taking the power away from
me. If I bring everything back to my board then I can choose a different way to
look at or view my world. I chose to have a family (whom a truly love and am
thankful for), to work at a school with challenging students, and to attain my
master’s degree this year. As I sit here at the start of a holiday weekend
completing homework with my youngest child on my lap my older one sitting next
to me, a stack of papers to grade, and a husband urging me to hurry up so we
can leave on our vacation, I have to think this is my life, this is my board
and I love it.
My Response:
Mary, I
enjoyed your candid blog post. This has been such a challenging year and it has
been nice to have some time this month to reflect of who we are as leaders. It
has been especially nice to dream a little about the leaders that we hope to
become, how we want to “show up” in the world and where we’d like to take our post-EMDT
dreams to make them into realities. I think that the reading this month has
been well positioned in terms of our overall learning. As I stated in my blog
about being the board, there is so much freedom in holding a perspective that
puts us in control of our interpretations of situations. Thanks for sharing
your experience. Hope you had a great vacation. You deserve it!
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