The Self Inspired Teacher

What is inspiration?

It is the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something especially to do something creative.

*Why do we, you and I need inspiration?*

1. Without inspiration, we lack the desire, the will, the momentum to act when necessary.

2. For one thing, inspiration helps you and I get up every time we fall.

3. Inspiration helps us achieve our goals or targets.

We all need inspiration.

If we all need inspiration, whose job is it to inspire us?

Granted, a lot of things inspire us. It could be a TV program, a song, famous or successful people in the education sector.

I am inspired whenever I read about JK Rowling - the author of Harry Potter.
Jk Rowling followed her passion for writing even when she was so poor she was almost homeless, a single mother, suffering depression. Today she is a best selling author.

Now in as much as we can be inspired by people, nothing beats the inspiration from within us - self inspiration.

*How can we therefore self inspire ourselves?*

1. Set goals to determine your inspirations.
Ask yourself; what do I want to achieve? Write it down. Then go to your WHY? Why do you want to achieve that?

Also look at your desired outcome and plan backwards.
2. Make a list of your achievements - I like listing the hardest ones so that I can tell myself how well I have done.

3. Take a big goal, break it down into months, weeks, days, hours or minutes of accomplishment. Don't take on any huge goal as a whole. Start out small.

4. Join a community of similar/like minded people. For example, I want to lose weight, so I join a gym where I'll find people with similar goals. We will help each succeed.

*I'm guessing that's why so many of us joined various groups on WhatsApp and Facebook.*

5. Identify obstacles  to your goals and eliminate them.  So set incentives for yourself. Buy something for yourself to celebrate an achievement.
*I do this a lot*

*When you have established a level of self inspiration, how can we maintain it?*

1. Take breaks - breaks will help rejuvenate you, give you the time to review goal, your why, and things you'll achieve.

If after this, we see we've not achieved, we recallibrate and try again.

2. Study others you admire - read about them or watch videos on them.
Some time ago, Rita Pierson's TED talk video - Every Child Need a Champion trended online. We all got to watch the video and were encouraged.

3. Possibly have a checklist where you will monitor your progress.

3. Keep things new and fresh. Let the ideas flow, new ones too.

4. Gather information or knowledge about ourselves- strength, weakness,etc.

5. Accountability is very important. Have an accountability partner, someone who will ensure you achieve.

6. Also teach others what you are learning. You can only say you know  something when you can effectively pass that knowledge on to others.

7. Always remember to believe in yourself.

Yes, if you believe in nothing else BELIEVE in YOURSELF.