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Category Archives: motivation
My Blog and I Both Need To Lose Weight
This hasn’t been a great week for blogging. I should explain why–in my normal convoluted way, of course. A couple of years ago, I switched to the Premium plan thinking I would love the new features, get lots of followers … Continue reading
Posted in blog, blog posts, blogging, blogposts, growing your blog, increasing blog traffic, motivation, writing
Tagged blog, blogging, gigabytes, laid off, making money, motivation, picture size, space, Wordpress personal plan, Wordpress Premium, work
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From My Students
As an ESL teacher, I am generally good at building rapport with my classes and with individual students. This is especially true when I teach an exam preparation course because the same students are with me for a longer time. … Continue reading
Getting Sick
Thank you everyone for reading about my adventures in Costa Rica. Your comments and encouragement were especially rewarding. I was really on the fence about the trip before going–despite already paying for the thing. Maybe it was nerves, or maybe … Continue reading
Posted in appreciation, Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, blog, blog posts, blogging, blogposts, Costa Rica, disappointment, health, illness, motivation, recover, sick, travel, travel writing, winter
Tagged blog posts, blogging, Costa Rica, flu, health, illness, motivation, photos, rafting, recovery, symptoms, travel, travel writing, Zipline
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Revelling in Personal, Though Perhaps Trivial, Accomplishments
Maintaining or achieving happiness sometimes means stretching your definitions. I search for good things or at least things that make me smile everyday. Some days that means being delighted with my fortune cookie, some days that means finding joy in … Continue reading
Posted in achievement, Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, blog, blogging, commemoration, darts, happiness, memories, milestones, motivation, personal best, record breaking, self improvement, selfishness, tenacity
Tagged 174, 180, ambition, Candy Crush, Cookie Jam, darts, goals, levels, luck, passing, reveling, social, triple 18, triple 20
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The Full Brunt of Karma, In This lifetime or the Next
I remember not being overly kind (read childishly cruel) to the substitute teachers in my life. Childishly cruel is probably better described as bratty or disdainful or angsty or some other word that explains the eye rolling and defiant attitude … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, atmosphere, coffee, confrontation, culture, education, ESL, happiness, hard work, humor, humour, international, motivation, students, teaching
Tagged ESL, karma, life, students, teaching
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January …..Goodbye!
January is done and I am not sure I have a lot to show for it. I didn’t write down any of my resolutions despite resolving to do a number of things this year. I guess I didn’t take the … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, atmosphere, blog, blogging, challenges, changes, confessions, goals, help, humor, life, motivation
Tagged changes, February, finished, goodbye, honesty, January, plans, resolutions
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The Teaching Moment You Live For
A quick look at some of the blogs I follow tells me that some people are already in a reflective mood. Nothing wrong with that, but I think I am not ready for that and will save that for tomorrow, … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection, bicycles, books, education, ESL, motivation, teaching
Tagged cycling, Dead Poets Society, Graham Swift, Waterland
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