Educate yourself

So pretty much everyone knows I am a  prek teacher. I carry or rather I pull a large cart behind me when I go to work. I have been told it looks like a cooler or maybe I am going on a flight some where. I love my teacher bag because I carry all  my items I need : markers, pens, books and lots more. The items all depend on the week and what we are learning that week.  I have always prided myself on being prepared.I like to be prepared... some times to the extreme but oh! well.

 I will be finishing my masters degree in teaching special education. I must say I am very proud of that fact. I have worked very hard to get to this point.  I have lots to do between now and then including sending out resumes and lots more. I am also working on bettering myself. I have been reading alot and watching less tv. I am reading Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus which has been funny to read and definately have learned a thing or two about how the perspectives of Men and Women are so different.  I have also been reading : Codependency No More. Also a good book and very informative.  I have spent alot of time trying to gain happiness from making others happy but that's not the way it works , we have to love ourselves and find happiness with ourselves because at the end of the day we are the ones we are stuck with :) . Yes, we want people in our lives to help bring us happiness but we also have to make our minds up to be happy as well. I have learned many important things from this book but one last thing I want to share from the book is that we have to find a balance between taking care of ourselves and serving others.  Balance is always one of those tricky things but we must strive for it.  So I am working on finding the good in myself and choosing joy in my life instead of always focusing on the negative. 

I have been pouring over books like these as well as my scriptures to help me learn more and educate myself so that I can find peace and joy in my life. I have also been praying alot to find that peace and joy. I strongly feel that is so important that we educate ourselves whether we pour over good books or we go to a university but that we are always progressing and learning.  Educating yourself isn't always going to a university it can be done by learning more today then you knew yesterday and applying it.