Contrasting your perceptions

1. Steady your nerves
– Prepare ourselves for the reality of the situation.
2. Control your emotions
– Domesticate your emotions, don’t pretend they don’t exist.
3. Practice objectivity
– Hold for a moment, let me see what you are and what you represent.
4. Practice contemptuous expressions
– See things for what they are not what you have made them.
5. Alter your perspective
– Limit and expand our perspective to whatever keeps you calmest.
6. Live in the present moment
– Focus on the moment, on what you can control right now.
7. Look for the opportunity
– Does getting upset give you more options?

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that I have learnt that sometimes things go wrong on Monday but the same things go right again on Friday. Different class of students, different reactions. I’ve learnt that Monday is a tough day so don’t make judgements on the quality of my work.

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Did it lists

• 2 more lessons planned
• Peak and Elevate brain training
• Dealt with sudden change to my day at school where I could no longer teach a lesson I was looking forward to teaching.
• Successful lesson with class in morning; really made me feel good.
• Despite being tired I mentally prepared myself for having to be busy in the evening – pretending that I’m having two days in one!
• Both venues in Kota Kinabalu confirmed already!
• Kept Kevin up to date with tour plan.
• Quick email to Hayden – he even replied!
• Finished Introduction to Stoicism and found links to even more things to learn.
• Wrote to Lachlan after reading a little of a free ebook called Philosophy of India.
• Started reading cliff notes to Anna Karenina and realise I missed little bits which makes me think I will need to read it again! But so much to read.