So I haven't written very much o this blog even though I have TRIED and TRIED. This is one of the reasons why I was so motivated to write on Five Minute Friday's prompt today. I saw it and it really got me thinking about how much I have tried to do this summer. I am not use to this whole summer off thing--if you don't know me well yet, I'm a teacher and this past school year was my first time at a public school. My previous school was a year round private school--and more than just your typical year round--365 days a year, year round. They only didn't have school on major holidays: i.e. Christmas. So I was actually really excited for the summer, it would be a chance to do all of the things that I never felt that I had time for. I was feeling super ambitious and optimistic at the beginning of the summer when I wrote down a three page To-Do List separated into categories. One of those categories was this blog. I had also just found out about Teachers Write and I was excited to practice my writing, one of those things that I never felt good at personally and then felt even worse about as a teacher when that was the place that I had the lowest scores in on our end of the year testing. But I just TRIED on this list--I haven't even had the nerve in the last few days to get it out and see how I have really done.
The biggest thing that I know is that I haven't come anywhere close to doing anything for this blog. I was going to have a schedule of when I was going to post stuff when, a schedule for the school year, and hopefully even schedule some of those posts and maybe even spread them out throughout the school year, but no such luck.
Wow--five minutes can go by so fast when I just sit down to write...I will leave you with this concluding thought and get to the positive part of what I was going to say because I hate it when I turn to this blog just to whine to cyberspace. The word tried doesn't mean fail. I have to remind myself of this on a daily basis. I attempted, I did something, that does not mean that I did nothing. And you can always try....and because you tried means you didn't completely fail. So I didn't fail at my summer just because my list isn't done...I tried at my summer and I can try again next year as a wiser, more experienced summer person.
3 comments:
try, and try again.
There is bravery in continuing to try when our first efforts do not work out as we plan. Thank you for sharing, and I hope you have a great weekend.
You tried - you did something, you learnt something, no fail there. When we try, we win because we haven't given up. Keep sharing your thoughts with cyberspace and with us - they're good.
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