Finding Yourself

When I took my first middle school teaching job 15 years ago I went in thinking that I was going to need to be super funny and engaging if I was going to be a good teacher.

Because, honestly, who doesn't love a funny, keep then rolling in the aisles, telling lots of jokes teacher?

But I found this wasn't my style.

When I was trying to be this person, I wasn't connecting with my students, and teaching was not feeding my soul.

It wasn't creating energy for me, it was draining my energy.

One day I figured out that showing up as someone who wasn't me wasn't working very well.

It was working okay, but I wasn't making the impact I knew I could make.

That was when I decided to do something different.

I chose to be me, and that made all the difference in my teaching career. 

From that point on, not only was teaching more fun and energy creating for me, but my students were more engaged and connecting started to happen. 

Connecting with them, and connecting with myself.

This was when I felt like I began to step into my possibility.

When I stepped into, accepted, and embraced myself.

When I appreciated my own unique teaching style and didn't try to be like someone else.

When I found joy in me.

Because we can't step into our God-given possibility until we step into ourselves.

Only then we can begin to change the world.

How can you more fully accept and embrace the you God created you to be?

Want to dig deeper into this concept?

Check out podcast #113 Self-Acceptance.