MAC Blog Post #2: Week 4 - Being the Board

"If I cannot be present without resistance to the way things are and act effectively, if I feel myself to be wronged, a loser, or a victim, I will tell myself that some assumption I have made is the source of my difficulty."
-The Art of Possibility: Rosamund and Benjamin Zander


I try to practice this in daily life. I usually do a good job, but sometimes I slip and have a really bad day. I recently ran into this concept with work. I have been feeling very unsatisfied with my co-worker's  comments and behavior towards me. It seems as if they do not understand me, my philosophies, or my reasons for working with behaviorally challenged students. Many of them comment that I need to work somewhere else where I can use all of my education and teaching talent. I realized after reading this chapter that I can set them straight by finding a way to help them understand and know who I really am, or I can continue to accept that fact that they do not, and take their comments in stride with this knowledge. Either way I will not be taking there comments personally.



*This chapter has reminded me to take the high road in life.