GRIT as an acronym, my teaching words for 2015: #28days Day8

While following twitter so far this year, I saw a few people suggest a word that they would choose to be their focus for the year. I like the word GRIT and although as a word it is great stand-alone, I found that using it as an acronym for my year will be my source of encouragement. I hope it challenges me to focus on these areas and regularly assess them: 

G- Gratitude, thankfulness. When I am grateful I seem to enjoy life more. It makes us more resilient to challenging times and we don't take for granted all those great people in our lives. I want to focus on being more grateful for all my blessings, my husband, my daughter, my family, friends, colleagues and students, the opportunity to teach, study and enjoy days off with my daughter before she starts school next year. 

R- Relationships. Along with being grateful, I want to develop positive and engaging relationships with my students, their parents and the people I work alongside. Good relationships need work, effort and time, but they are so worth it. 

I- Invested, this is one of my favourite words. When we are invested in something, we give it our all, we want what is best for it and this is what I want for my family, my students, my school and my studies. I am going to have to balance it all, but I will ensure that I am giving each area the attention it requires and loving the variety of moments I find myself in.

T- Try. If you don't try, you won't know. Taking risks, exploring ideas and implementing them. If I fail, brush myself off, learn from them and move on. Try, try and try again. 

Well that is my acronym for GRIT. Grit is important in life, we need it to succeed, we need it to get up from failures, we need it to cope with challenges and most of all we need to model it to teach our young people.