The Alter Ego: Do You KNOW YOU?

An Insider's Guide; giving teachers the resources and strategies to find your Super Teacher voice and to Nurture the Super Teacher within.

Special Note: Make sure to click on all words in blue. They are links to additional information to help you on your journey to Know You.

"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Teaching is not for the faint of heart!

You are willing to venture daily into the classroom and to do battle with the dragons of ignorance, intolerance and illiteracy and must be strong of heart, mind and body.
Your personal life is essential!

As a Super Teacher YOU must:

1. Know how to nurture yourself in big and small ways.

2. Find the work you love and understand your personality type.

3. Be financially healthy, you can not serve your students effectively if you are worried about money at home.

4. Be Spiritually strong.

5. Take care of your physical health.

6. Nuture personal relationships.

As you journey through the swamps and forests of ever changing challenges; curriculum, discipline, professional communication and accountability you must be prepared with the arsenal that will both protect you and guarantee your reaching the “prize” of successful and joyful teaching and learning.

KNOW THYSELF

1. Nurture yourself

As Marcus Aurelius has said, “there is a source strength” within yourself.

I want to encourage you to intentionally revive and renew that source of strength by finding the abundance within you by nurturing yourself. Just the meaning of the word nurture helps us to understand the deliberate action that it takes to nurture oneself.

Nuture has two major definitions with many synonyms.

To Nurture:

1. to Cultivate: cultivate, cherish, develop, support, encourage,

2. to Care for: care for, look after, take care of, raise, rear, foster

Cultivate and Care for Yourself ...take a Teacher Vacation

Imagine, developing and supporting your teaching while on a relaxing and renewing vacation.

Professional development workshops and seminars can be daunting. We all face them. Sitting in a stuffy room with a bunch of strangers listening to speaker after speaker talk about the newest and greatest set of acronyms...you know the NCLB, PLCs, PBS, HWT, HET...

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2. Find the Work you Love

Knowing your passion, what your talents are and what your life's purpose is, is imperative to becoming a Super Teacher.

If you are in teaching one can assume that you have already found the work you love.

Understanding your personality and talents is a great support while working with children in your classroom as well as working with your admisitrators and professional colleagues.

I highly recommends you invest in yourself and take this Personality Profile

The 48 Days Personality Profile has three reports:

Career Profile Report
Values-Style Report
Spiritual Gifts Report

I always teach my kids
"Make your Work your Passion,
your Passion your Work
and you will always be HAPPY."

If you are still on your journey to dicovering your passion, talents, and life's purpose read Dan Miller's book, 48 Days to the Work You Love.
Click on this book cover to learn more about 48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller. This website has tons of free materials about finding your passion, talents and the work you love in order to maximize your own abundance in life and your classroom.

3. Become Financially Healthy

If you are worried about money, bills, creditors, retirement then how can you be 100% focused on best serving each student in your classroom.

Financial troubles not only cause unwanted stress to the budget but also to relationships and professional effectiveness.

Wouldn't it be nice to be free of money worries and stress so you can invest 100% of yourself into your classroom?

Watch this video.
I went to a Dave Ramsey Live Event last Fall and it has changed my life!

When you have financial health it frees up your spirit
and allows you to give all of yourself to your class and your passion.

How many times have you bought supplies for your classroom; pocket charts, children's books, color crayons, etc and worried as you wrote the check that you were using your grocery money?

We have all done it...I have done it!

Most teachers are givers, you self-sacrifice for your classroom and your students.

When you are Financially Healthy and organized you can give like no one else and never have a second thought.

Visit Dave Ramsey's website. for more information and resources on the Baby Steps, Finacial and Investment Calculators, Budget Forms, and you can even listen to The Dave Ramsey Radio Show.

At DaveRamsey.com you will find tools to examine your financial health.

My family and I are taking Finacial Peace University. The benefits are remarkable, especially the sense of sercurity, control, hope and PEACE.

Dave Ramsey's book, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness, is a step-by-step guide to financial health. You will learn to budget, to save, to get out of debt and to change your family tree. It is the best way to find financial peace.

Super Teachers invest in their future by becoming finanically healthy.

Start your path to Financial Freedom

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