This week's challenge is to look at your values. Those values that shake you to your core and you don't change for anyone!!! Deb gave us a great list of value words to use as inspiration, we could use these or any other words that work for us. I just "tried" to add a link to those words (I hope it worked!!!)
I looked these words soooooo many times!!! The first time I looked at them and thought as Mrs Running In Heels the teacher not as me the WHOLE person. Part of this year's is to get me out of ALWAYS being teacher mode (Carlotta I can see you nodding your head at me ehehehe - Yes I have super powers and I see you through your computer!!!!) Lucky I recognized this was the way I was thinking so put the iPad away for the day.
I kept thinking about these words for a few days then I saw a post on Facebook from Deb's guest blogger Kirri White. She was talking about how values and goals are different!!! That was where the light bulb went on. I was getting the two mixed up and making myself confused!!!
I took the list out again and started writing down my thoughts in my SYL12 notebook. I wrote down all the words that spoke to me - that was a list of 20!!! However as I was writing I didn't realize I was marking words as I wrote. I marked words that were really powerful. Once the list was done I went and made a cuppa and looked over the words again. There were a few that kept jumping out at me - one in particular and it wasn't one I was expecting!!!!
After enjoying my cuppa and moment of quiet time as Miss L is sound asleep!!! I divided the page in 2 and wrote 2 headings - Goals / Values. This helped me really get to my core values! It also helped realise some goals I want to achieve this year!!!
Here is my list of GOALS
1. Balance - this is my number one goal for 2012. I need to get the life, work, me balance!!
2. Growth - SYL12!!!!!
3. Spontaneous - I have lost this over the years and it's time to get it back!!!
4. Patience - I'm great at this at work but suck at it everywhere else in my life.
5. Positivity - I think I'm pretty good at this but when things are busy and if I'm around negative people I can slip into their ways.
6. Inspire - if i can make a positive change in one person then I've achieved my goal!!!
Now my VALUES
1. Love / Family - number one all the way!!!!
2. Health - it's so important. The last 2 years have really shown me how much I value health!
3. Authenticity - I could not get value out of my head, it kept speaking to me especially whe. I was thinking about the values I want Miss L to learn in life.
4. Listen - not everyone can do this well but when you can WOW the world can change when we listen.
5. Learning - try to learn just one thing new everyday and don't be afraid to do so!!!
6. Imagination - we loose this as we get older. I love Miss L's imagination and I don't want her to loose that.
So thoughts?????
MarIlyn Monroe - "give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world!"
Until next time
Xox
Thursday 12 January 2012
Friday 6 January 2012
Week #1 Challenge: Create a list of everything that went “right” in 2011
I love how this challenge starts off POSITIVE!!!!!!!
Today I am going to be my own rainbow in the cloud of 2011 - which to be perfectly honest was a mixture of good and not so good.
As I read over the questions and think about the "rainbow" parts of 2011, Miss L wakes up from her sleep because she has flooded her sleep nappy and now needs a refreshing bath. I love bath time with Miss L, we sing, blow bubbles, have cups of tea, make "cake pops" (OMG - One of new favourite things to make!!!) and the teacher in my always reads books. At the moment we are reading a mixture Grug and one of my personal favourites Dr Seuss!!!!!!!!!
Today Mr Football helps out does the bath as Miss L is having a daddy's little moment and only wants him. So as I'm changing the bed sheets and finding new clothes for her to wear after the bath I hear giggles coming from the bathroom, I pop my head around the corner and here is the two of them with bubble goaties, madly shooting each other with tiny water guns. I wander off and put the wet sheets into the laundry then I heard Mr Football ask Miss L - "So is it Grug or Dr Seuss today?" she tilts her little head to the side and tells him that she wants Dr Suess. He starts to reads and to my sheer delight he is reading my all time favourite Dr Suess - "Oh, The Places You'll Go". As he reads the first two pages the words wash over me as if Dr Suess is talking to me about my SYL Challenge.
I want to share these powerful words with you!!!
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the woman who'll decide where to go!
So lets get my rainbow of 2011 on!!!!!!!!!
What energised you?
Here is today's shoe quote - Enjoy!!
“A pair of shoes can change your life. Just ask Cinderella.” -Anonymous
Until next time
xox
Today I am going to be my own rainbow in the cloud of 2011 - which to be perfectly honest was a mixture of good and not so good.
As I read over the questions and think about the "rainbow" parts of 2011, Miss L wakes up from her sleep because she has flooded her sleep nappy and now needs a refreshing bath. I love bath time with Miss L, we sing, blow bubbles, have cups of tea, make "cake pops" (OMG - One of new favourite things to make!!!) and the teacher in my always reads books. At the moment we are reading a mixture Grug and one of my personal favourites Dr Seuss!!!!!!!!!
Today Mr Football helps out does the bath as Miss L is having a daddy's little moment and only wants him. So as I'm changing the bed sheets and finding new clothes for her to wear after the bath I hear giggles coming from the bathroom, I pop my head around the corner and here is the two of them with bubble goaties, madly shooting each other with tiny water guns. I wander off and put the wet sheets into the laundry then I heard Mr Football ask Miss L - "So is it Grug or Dr Seuss today?" she tilts her little head to the side and tells him that she wants Dr Suess. He starts to reads and to my sheer delight he is reading my all time favourite Dr Suess - "Oh, The Places You'll Go". As he reads the first two pages the words wash over me as if Dr Suess is talking to me about my SYL Challenge.
I want to share these powerful words with you!!!
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the woman who'll decide where to go!
So lets get my rainbow of 2011 on!!!!!!!!!
What energised you?
- My daughter - Miss L, she is the light of my life. I knew love before she arrived but I didn't know how powerful the love of a mother was until I became one. I now make a point to thank my mum all the time as I now understand what it means to be a mum!!
- New ideas at work.
- Passionate teachers.
- Going to the gym - when I'm getting up at 5.30am to go isn't energising but once I'm there and pumping through my program, I'm ALL energised!!!
- Miss L
- Getting my morning cuddles from my cherubs (my students)
- Cooking new foods.
- Gorgeous photos of my family
- Going on our family holiday to Thailand
- Being asked to be Assistant Principal.
- Being told by my boss I'm doing a great job (I like to please)
- Friends
- Actually finding the time to read a book and NOT a school book!!!
- Being crafty
- Playdough
- Pole dancing - NOT the sexy type hehehe I'm so not sexy at pole dancing. Ask Mr Football - he just laughs everytime I show him a new trick as there is always sooooooo much grunting and groaning trying to get into position then its like "quick quick are you watching, ohhhhh no I'm out of it".
- Shopping
- DVD players in cars - best invention ever!!!
- SHOES of course
- Finally getting Miss L diagnosed with Delayed Reaction to cowes milk potein, allergic to soy and eggs.
- Finding a doctor who listened to Mr Football and I and acted on Miss L's problems.
- Dad and Mr Football's Mum getting better.
- Realising I need to make a change in my life.
- Moo Moo
- Carlotta
- Mrs P and Miss N soon to be Mrs H
- Some of the AP's I met at conference.
- Guy Claxton, Jason Clarke, Michael Futton
What filled your “tank”?
- Blasting music and dancing. I even had a re-live of the music of year 12, OMG best car trip ever and I was the only person in the car!!!!
- Taking a trip away with just Mr Football and doing nothing but eating awesome food, lying in bed and just relaxing.
- Buying scented candles.
- Having a cleaner once a week - I love you Lynnie :)
- Trip to Thailand
- Illness - not that illness is a rainbow but way the driving factor to bring us closer to together.
- Finding Miss L friendly foods and recipes.
- I need to relax on the weekends.
- School work can always until tomorrow.
- I am a very passionate teacher.
- Miss L is a clever little cookie - all parents think that about their kids :)
- I enjoy quotes.
- I don't need LOTS of friends just GOOD friends.
- Miss L
- Mr Football
- My family
- My real friends
- Health
- My gorgeous house
- My job
Here is today's shoe quote - Enjoy!!
“A pair of shoes can change your life. Just ask Cinderella.” -Anonymous
Until next time
xox
Thursday 5 January 2012
A New Addiction Has Started
In the last 24-30 hours I have been thinking non stop about my blog and what I'm going to say next, where I want to take the blog, is ANYONE reading this (Thanks to the very lovely blogging community for being so embracing, I was SOOOOOOOO excited to see I had 2 comments!!! Hi Mrs P - I know you will be checking in :)) and how do I explain to Mr Football - hehehe (Thats my cheeky blogging name for my gorgeous husband) I'm now a blogger!!!!!
It's crazy how INTO this I am and I've only done one blog post. I have been googling it (my student's favourite response to solve anything I don't know hehehe I love it when a 5 year old turns around with that look of "WHAT you don't know the answer - OMG Kinder teachers know everything" then goes "It's ok Mrs Running In Heels we will just google it"), I've been Facebook stalking many many pages - most of them I've been following the links from the Home Life Simplified page and talking with my friends.
I've discovered through all my research that we all are trying so hard to be perfect. The perfect mum, perfect wife, perfect friend, perfect career woman, perfect house cleaner, perfect chef, perfect gym bunny just plain old perfect in every way shape and form. Whilst we are trying to be this magical perfect person we are always looking over our shoulder at our siblings, friends, role models and just other people we know thinking "Man they have it altogether - WHY CAN I, what am I doing wrong????"
So this year I'm not going to try to be that perfect person I tried to be last year!!!! Let me be honest - I TRIED really hard to be that person and it wore me out. I was trying to be super mum to Miss L who was 2 in August, the perfect housewife, dynamite in the bedroom (hahaha I crack myself up writing that), Assistant Principal of a school of nearly 200 students, the guru teacher of Kinder/ Year One, coach of an A Grade netball team, great friend, godmother to 2 and perfect daughter/sister/ sister-in-law to both sides of our families who happen to dealing with cancer, mystery illness that nearly had my dad in box and recently a bad relationship (not mine). You know what happened - Yeah I burnt out!!!!
Not this year - This year is about making positive changes and being positive!!!!!
So in the spirit of my new year I found this awesome picture with a motto I'm going to try out!!!!
Be a rainbow in someone's cloud
Now I've got the picture and I'm going to try and upload it - if it's not here when I post, just use your imagination hehehehe
Ohhhhhhhhhhh I think its in - fingers crossed xxxxx xxxxx
One last thing before I sign off for today - I think I might end my post with a good shoe quote!!!
What do you think?
Here is the first one - enjoy :)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
Until next time
xox
It's crazy how INTO this I am and I've only done one blog post. I have been googling it (my student's favourite response to solve anything I don't know hehehe I love it when a 5 year old turns around with that look of "WHAT you don't know the answer - OMG Kinder teachers know everything" then goes "It's ok Mrs Running In Heels we will just google it"), I've been Facebook stalking many many pages - most of them I've been following the links from the Home Life Simplified page and talking with my friends.
I've discovered through all my research that we all are trying so hard to be perfect. The perfect mum, perfect wife, perfect friend, perfect career woman, perfect house cleaner, perfect chef, perfect gym bunny just plain old perfect in every way shape and form. Whilst we are trying to be this magical perfect person we are always looking over our shoulder at our siblings, friends, role models and just other people we know thinking "Man they have it altogether - WHY CAN I, what am I doing wrong????"
So this year I'm not going to try to be that perfect person I tried to be last year!!!! Let me be honest - I TRIED really hard to be that person and it wore me out. I was trying to be super mum to Miss L who was 2 in August, the perfect housewife, dynamite in the bedroom (hahaha I crack myself up writing that), Assistant Principal of a school of nearly 200 students, the guru teacher of Kinder/ Year One, coach of an A Grade netball team, great friend, godmother to 2 and perfect daughter/sister/ sister-in-law to both sides of our families who happen to dealing with cancer, mystery illness that nearly had my dad in box and recently a bad relationship (not mine). You know what happened - Yeah I burnt out!!!!
Not this year - This year is about making positive changes and being positive!!!!!
So in the spirit of my new year I found this awesome picture with a motto I'm going to try out!!!!
Be a rainbow in someone's cloud
Now I've got the picture and I'm going to try and upload it - if it's not here when I post, just use your imagination hehehehe
Ohhhhhhhhhhh I think its in - fingers crossed xxxxx xxxxx
One last thing before I sign off for today - I think I might end my post with a good shoe quote!!!
What do you think?
Here is the first one - enjoy :)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
Until next time
xox
Tuesday 3 January 2012
So it begins!!!!
Here it is my first blog post - ooooohhhhhhhhh so exciting!!!!
I have been wanting to get into the whole blog experience for a while now but being a proud mumma, wife, daughter, friend and Kinder teacher - I just haven't been able to juggle my time enough to fit it in, hence my title for this blog. I do LOVE my heels and if you have ever met any of my students they will tell you I'm the only teacher they know that can run faster in heels than runners (I'm quietly proud of that reputation :)) and my life feels like that too - I'm always on the run (in gorgeous heels of course!)
However as I'm on school holidays for a few weeks now and care of a lovely friend's Facebook status update - I found time (in between Miss L's sleep) to create this blog!!
At the moment my blog will be about the exciting learning curve of creating a blog and my adventures on the 52 Weeks To Simplify Your Life Challenge.
Until next time
xox
I have been wanting to get into the whole blog experience for a while now but being a proud mumma, wife, daughter, friend and Kinder teacher - I just haven't been able to juggle my time enough to fit it in, hence my title for this blog. I do LOVE my heels and if you have ever met any of my students they will tell you I'm the only teacher they know that can run faster in heels than runners (I'm quietly proud of that reputation :)) and my life feels like that too - I'm always on the run (in gorgeous heels of course!)
However as I'm on school holidays for a few weeks now and care of a lovely friend's Facebook status update - I found time (in between Miss L's sleep) to create this blog!!
At the moment my blog will be about the exciting learning curve of creating a blog and my adventures on the 52 Weeks To Simplify Your Life Challenge.
Until next time
xox
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