The Struggle with Growth Mindset!

Confession time: I have been allowing this endeavor to intimidate me for over two months now. Looking for an alternative to teaching (a profession I love….but lately not feeling the love), I was hearing “Start a blog! You’ll be great! It’s so easy!”. I am now feeling not only incompetent but also ashamed that I paid for the site and after several attempts have yet to feel confidant enough to publish. I swear everytime I get on here the edit pages look completely different.

So today, with school approaching at warp speed, I said enough is enough. I preach to my elementary students that mistakes are a gateway to success. Embrace them! Grow from them! And here I am refusing to live by that very same credo. So I’m giving it a try today…..even though I’m even less confident about it than I was before. So please…grant me some grace….lol.

Today’s discussion is about growth mindset, and how taking chances at being wrong or “not good” at something builds brain pathways and eventually causes growth non only in your brain but in your outlook. You can find more about growth mindset here https://youtu.be/hiiEeMN7vbQ . I’ve been so focused on the possiblility of getting negative feedback on my lack of blogging skill, that I have wasted two months worrying about it.

I’ve come to this blogging adventure because times are not what I consider to be motivating right now. There is so much rancor, division and hateful commentary going on that I’ve felt this sense of doom deep in my soul. And that’s just within my educator’s world. My vision for this blog is to share all the ways I combat the negativity in the world and choose joy. Sometimes it will be a rant about the things that are happening that are just not ok. And sometimes it will be about the simple things I find that choke those feelings out if only for a day. And I’m going to be bad at it…..until I’m better at it. I’m just not good at it…yet. I hope you come along for the journey.