Advice and Change

So I can't sleep. I have too much rolling around in my head. As always when I think of what I need to change about myself it seems that everything comes out of the wood works. I become overloaded with expectations of myself and others. I try to tell myself that change is good, which it is, and that no matter what I know I have help. I talked with an assistant principal today and he gave me a lot to think about. I don't think that he knew just how much. But as my mother says, you can't eat the whole elephant at once. I need to stop and just pick one or two things to work on and change. I need to change. I need to try new things. I shall see how it works tomorrow and the next day. I want to be the best teacher that I can be and that means asking for and taking criticism well. Still hard because I don't like to disappoint. But I think that asking for help is better than not recognizing when one needs help or a little nudge in the right direction. So I say thank you to my assistant principal for everything to think about in my head. Hopefully good change comes of it. Here is to the future, I raise my glass with my head held high knowing that the only opinion of myself that truly matters is God's and mine. To a new and brighter day I know I will return here in the future but hopefully it is for a different reason than the one today.