Attitude Makes the Difference

I tell my students constantly that they have to choose their attitude. I will march them out the door and tell them when they can have a better attitude about my class they are welcome to return.  I need to take note.

I have been moping around this year from the beginning because life has taken its toll on me. A seemingly constant stream of small negative things has shaped my vision of the year to be that it sucks and nothing good is going to happen.  It's time to change the attitude.

It's more difficult than I've thought before when using the phrase with my students. It seems so easy. You walk back in and instead of thinking you can't do algebra, you think you can and magically it all makes sense then right? Wrong. 

Upon deciding last week that I needed to count my blessings and change my attitude a series of more small, negative things occurred and I spent my Sunday having a breakdown.

I feel I'm being tested here. Can I overcome all these trials the way I expect my students, my children and my husband to overcome theirs?  Right now I'm failing and tonight that stops. I am a woman of strength and tremendous faith. I don't back away from challenges and I trust God in all I do. I am a woman of passion and grace and tonight I return to that woman. I have been lost but now am found.