What may be assumed to be the first step to take is:
Decide what the Better You will do differently than The Old You.
That seems to require an analysis of the current you.
Step 1
Buy several (at least 7) composition notebooks.
How do you spend your time? Is each day of the week pretty much the same?
Begin with one day of the week then repeat answering for each day.
Step 2
What skills do you currently have? List them in your notebook.
What skills do you want to have – different from current? List them in your notebook.
List the books you have read in the past 3 months.
Get a Library Card. Use it to find books to read. Librarians can be ver helpful in this process. Explain to him/her what you are doing (and Why).
Select one book to begin with. Label one of your composition books for that book.
As you read, take notes – keeping in mind that you want to become a “Better Me.”
Take one of your composition notebooks and label it “A Better Me Plan”.
It will take about 3 weeks of daily working/reading/writing in order to set up your habits that are aimed at the New You.
For most people it takes a repetition of about 15-21 days to establish new habits.
Part of Habit Building works better when you are working on a schedule – same time each day for the same amount of time.
If possible have a place where you will work. Routine helps to establish the new habits.
I get up each morning at the same time.
I have my study materials already in that place.
Notebooks and writing instruments in place so you don’t waste time searching for your materials.
Journal in one of your notebooks as you find special ideas and goals.
If you have a significant other who will enter this event with you: establish the roles that he/she will play. Ask for his/her support and encouragement.
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I am an educator.
I entered the classroom for the first time as a student when I was seven. Fifteen years later I drove away from the college campus and entered the classroom as a teacher. Forty-eight years passed. Looking back it seems like last week that I began this journey. I had no intention of getting old and retiring.
My forty-eight years took me into a one-room-all-eight-grades experience, a few middle grades classrooms, elementary school administration, a few high school classrooms, two colleges as professor, a consolidated school (Pre-K thru 12th), then back to a middle grade classroom. Most of these years I was on contract for 10 months of each year.
My areas of expertise: History, English, Bible, Math, Composition, Literature, technology, success for students-with-disabilities.
During the summer months, I obtained a Master’s Degree, worked construction, sales, CNA, traveled, and planned and wrote curriculum.
My wife and I have adopted and raised three children, been foster parents, and many times taken our consolidated family of seven kids camping.
As a teacher I was an early adopter of technology as instructional tools. I blogged with and for my students. I have created and maintained websites for instructional purposes and for personal interests.
I have created and blogged in the areas of Motivation, Opinion, Instructional Methodology, Poetry, Music, Philosophy, and Photography.
Three years ago I was forced into retirement. I had planned to continue teaching until I was 70. That was a dramatic blow to my ego.
After my retirement I worked in the wedding industry for a year, as photographer and videographer. Then, a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. That was strike two to my ego.
Teaching forced structure on me. I came to depend on that structure to orient my life.
Cancer treatment forced structure on me. The doctor visits, the treatments, the tests, the schedule of appointments, making it through this one-day-at-a-time created structure and routine that I needed. I am now cancer free. Doctor visits are fewer. Treatments are concluded.
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