Water Yourself

Thoughts may swirl through the air sometimes that turn your usual upward smiley face into a frown. It doesn’t take a monstrous blaze to notice the embers of doubt coming to fire it’s flames. The truth about you creeps along even when doubt tries to prowl into your system. Don’t get burned; water yourself.

You do not have to frantically search outside for validation. Every exasperating experience does not mean that you have to once again be etched with worry. Resilience usually screams out its sweet words to you and its voice is noticeable because it will start to shower you with good thoughts about who you are. Let that overwhelming sense of love wash over you and soothe what feels lost.

You know who you are. Keeping your mind leveled on the truth easily fixes, soothes and solves. Don’t let lies about your character ruin your delightful heart. You don’t have to yell curses or get angry. You don’t have to let your faith collapse. You do not have to walk around feeling depressed or defeated. Don’t go let out your frustrations on your social media page. There are better ways to handle your situations. Don’t stay thinking that what you are going through is just another sad love song. This is real life.

Instead, find an alternate route. Reach for a pen and a notebook and let the lines be your shoulder to cry on while sitting in a cradle of quietness. Sometimes it takes emptying out what is bottled up inside so you could meet the quiet of your mind; like meditation but only, using writing as the vehicle.

Use your own eyes and heart as your audience and respond to your own situation. How could you have handled it differently? Feedback? What is the next step? How do I move in a better way? What can I learn from all of this?

But while writing, don’t simply stay hyper-focused on the problems, the he say, she says, or the dilemmas. Don’t forget to acknowledge the good things that happened in your life. Root yourself on for standing in resilience. Let out a high-pitched giggle for the things that felt good along the way. You persevered through it all. Remember that! 

Keep creating your own dusts of joy and let it sink in. Keep reaching for the sky and rise up to keep meeting the you that makes you smile.

Know yourself. Love yourself. Honor yourself. Trust yourself. Respect yourself. Like yourself. Acknowledge yourself. Celebrate yourself. Give yourself grace. Germinate.

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Speaking of persevering, I write songs to help inspire, motivate and celebrate the champions that we are in this world. Don't ever let go of the warrior in you. You are powerful. You are more than enough. You got this. Here are a few songs that might help to inspire you along your journey:

• Perseverance by Stephanie Jeannot
  
• More Than Enough by Stephanie Jeannot
  
• Warrior by Brian Fury & Stephanie Jeannot
  
• Breakthrough by Stephanie Jeannot (featuring Jazz E Matt)
  

I hope that these songs might add some joyous light to your day. Thank you for reading and for clicking on the song titles to listen to my music. Let me know if you actually did listen and if you did, which song was your favorite. Thanks for the feedback. 

Peace and blessings!

 

Learning is Fun

School is a great place to learn. They say go to school and learn something each day from a teacher that cares about your mind. That means the teacher must have a good mindset that holds on to the idea of teaching with love and focus on developing minds to grasp the information that they are sharing.

Make sure then that the information being shared is the information that is needed and not ideas that “you are not smart enough,” or “you are not worthy of respect or care,” or “your needs or voice or ideas do not matter,” or “you are beneath me and not worth the time.”

If students are coming eager to learn and a little behind the curve, answer the questions they have and respond to their requests for help. Don’t just assume that all students are at the same level just because they are the same age and in the same classroom setting. Don’t just take a student’s acting out as being a person who is out of control. Sometimes that is the request for help without them actually asking for "attention."

Did you pay attention to their need for help? Did you see that their hand was up when you were asking for student input? Did you put off their request or need, treating them just like everyone else with a need, or did you use it as a distraction, and instead something to be frustrated by?

We get it, they are your students, not your kids. Yes, you came to educate and not babysit. No, it is not your job to console because your title is teacher, not carer of a child’s feelings. Yes, they did not obey your first command, but that does not mean manhandling is the only way to get the desired result.

School is a great place to learn. It is a great place to see how to act and to formulate a mindset. Let the mindset be, you can do this, and you got what it takes, and you are an intelligent young lady or gentleman, and you matter so that the desire to learn escalates. Let them know.

Don’t let the mindset be based on stinking thinking. Adding value should always be the goal. Let’s add value for our future. The students are the future. They deserve quality learning experiences and treatment to carry on into their future so they can also have the mindset that learning is fun because it can be if you show them the way. Happy belated World's Teacher's Day to those who take the time. You are loved beyond measure.  

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I created a YouTube channel for kids: Learning with Ms Steph and it was started on the basis of getting kids to learn how to read with the idea that "Reading is Fun." Check out the first song written for the channel, Reading is Fun

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BTW! What did you think about my drawings? I love landscape photography the most; working with lines to tell stories. If you liked them even a little bit, let me know or give me advice on how to improve them. Thanks for your input.