Teaching Middle School ELA
Welcome to the Teaching Middle School ELA podcast, where we are dedicated to helping English Language Arts teachers create dynamic and engaging lessons for their students, while also managing the day-to-day responsibilities that come with being a Middle School ELA teacher.
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Teaching Middle School ELA
Mindset Favorite: You'll Regret What You Didn't Do
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Let’s take a moment to revisit one of our favorite Monday Mindset episodes!
Ever faced a life-changing choice and wondered whether to take the leap? Join us on Monday Mindset as we dive into my brother's bold move to France—a story of courage, curiosity, and embracing the unknown. I explore the power of risk-taking and how saying "yes" to the unfamiliar can lead to lasting fulfillment. Tune in for an inspiring conversation that might just spark your own journey to transform fear into opportunity!
Here’s to another day of living intentionally.
Caitlin
Well, hello teachers, and welcome to your Monday Mindset podcast episode. These are short, little snippets of thoughts, reflections that I share with you on a weekly basis, that are focused around mindset things that we can do to live our best lives, to live an intentional life, and I invite you to not just listen to these for yourself and how they apply to you in your life, but consider sharing them with other people too. Consider sharing them with your students every Monday and having a conversation about it and doing a reflection together, because I think a lot of these thoughts, these topics, these questions are just a part of being human, and sometimes being human can feel lonely and to know that other people are struggling through some of the same challenges that you are and are benefiting from having these types of conversations is hugely powerful in allowing us to get to be the best version of ourselves, to take who we are and who we be and who we show up in the world as to that next level. So I really hope that you enjoy these Monday mindsets and, if you do, let us know over on our Instagram at Evie academics. Thanks so much for listening and let's dive into our Monday mindset.
Speaker 1:So recently I was having a conversation with one of my brothers and we were going back to like a time in his life where he was making this really big decision and, as lucky as it sounds that he was, he was trying to make the choice whether or not to move to France I know difficult choice, right. And I just remember talking to him and saying look, you will never regret going. You can go, you can come back. You can always you know, know come back to your life here in the states. But if you don't go, you will spend your whole life wondering what if I had gone. And so to me the answer for him was go, try it out. Right, you'll always regret not going. You will never regret making the choice to actually go. And so I share that with you because I think a lot of the times in our lives we're presented with crossroads that feel very final, like if I make this choice, this is how it's always going to be, or this is going to impact my life greatly and sure, 100%. There are definitely situations that are like that. But I think sometimes, if we take a step back and we just look at the whole bigger picture of our lives, when we're presented with something like this maybe not moving to France, but a larger life choice that presents itself to us and we take a step back and we think about will I regret not doing this? And nine times out of 10, the answer is probably yes, because at the end of the day, let's say that you do say yes and you absolutely are miserable.
Speaker 1:Well, guess what? We can always go back to what we were doing before in some capacity. It might not look exactly the same as it currently does now, before we've made the decision to take the new job or try the new thing or whatever it might be, but there's always that opportunity to go back to some semblance of what we had in the past. And I'll tell you right now, years later, talking to my brother about that moment I think it was almost 10 years ago at this point and he always says to me they call me sissy, my brothers, they're younger than I am. He says sissy, I'm so appreciative that we had that conversation, because I don't think that I would have made that choice if you hadn't given me the permission to say, hey, this is okay, and if I don't like it I can always come back.
Speaker 1:And so to be able to give that gift, I think, to other people of just take the risk you know at the end of the day, what's the worst that could happen. You're gonna regret not going or not doing it. So just something to offer your brain on this Monday no-transcript.