When I left school on Friday, I knew what I was going to teach today, the first day of school. After reading A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future over the weekend, I changed my plans. Today I arrived at school not really knowing which plan to use. JL helped me make the decision, and I went with the revised plan which included making captions for pictures and the story The Little Engine that Could. Overall I think the change was positive. It's difficult to know on the first day. Honestly it's even more difficult because the student work I planned on perusing this evening is sitting back in my classroom. I knew it was a difficult day on my voice; I didn't realize it was a difficult day on my brain too.
Today I went back to the interweb to find out what I could post about that would relate to sankalpa . "...Sankalpa has the potential to release tremendous power by clearly defining and focusing on a chosen goal." My chosen goal since May has truly been on being physically active. Since it's cold and miserable out, I've been being active inside instead of outside. December 6th (or something like that) was the last time I ventured outside for physical activity. I, however, have still been going to they gym and focusing on being physically fit (or at least burning enough calories to eat more food). Yesterday I received an early morning text from a friend in God's Country . President Obama was talking about "The President's Challenge" . Today (I tried yesterday and decided to put it off until today... forget out it... let it happen... put it aside... clear my mind of it... all probably sankalpa) I formed a group. The...
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