Hi guys! I am going back to day 12 tonight and listing some of my dreams and passions.
I just love learning languages. When I am the happiest is when I am trying to learn a new language or understand a person who wants to be understood. I love saying to people what they have been trying to say all the time. Translating, interpreting, and learning language are what I love to do. I realized when I was cleaning my house just now that I use these skills on a daily basis. For example, I translate what my boss says into the actions that I take. I interpret the rules into my actions. I say things in different ways to promote understanding. That's where ideas come in, where I try new things always to better understand, better communicate, to be understood.
Maybe that is why I have a hard time or an easy time depending on how I look at it because I am always using my skills. Maybe I just need to pray for a passion to stand out and for direction and ask that I can be thankful to God because He has shown me how I am using my skills. I have been caught up in thinking that I need to be something unique, that there is only one of me and I better find the one thing that I can do, but that's not the whole truth I think. God has gifted me uniquely and I should always be using the gifts I have for Him, no matter what I am doing. I may be doing different things but these are the things I am passionate about, and I should always be doing them. I think I am also passionate about understanding, the place where two people meet and understand each other.
Well that's all for tonight, I'm going to go get some sleep. See you all tomorrow!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Hey guys! Sorry it's been so long since I posted. One of my friends got married and things got really busy and I let this slide, but I really want to finish with this project by August 1st. I will try to do as much as I can between now and then.
I've been reading in Chapter 8 today and it could not have come at a better time, because I have a new opportunity that requires the skills talked about in Chapter 8. I feel a little guilty for not keeping up with this project and I hope that I do not miss out on any opportunities because I have not continued with this project. Sometimes I struggle with not doing the prep work beforehand. I hope I can get better at doing the work beforehand so I can be well prepared for opportunities instead of missing them due to lack of preparation. I think this is the biggest obstacle between me and the work of my dreams, as well as in other areas. I have trouble finding the balance between you can't be prepared for everything, and the good kind of preparation that clearly defines what you are about.
Well I think you can find the balance, and I hope to continue on with this project and finish it all the way.
Does anyone else struggle with talking about their accomplishments? Most of the time I don't feel like I can take credit for them because they were ideas, that were gifts, and then they worked out really well.
P.S. I am super loving learning Chinese!!
I've been reading in Chapter 8 today and it could not have come at a better time, because I have a new opportunity that requires the skills talked about in Chapter 8. I feel a little guilty for not keeping up with this project and I hope that I do not miss out on any opportunities because I have not continued with this project. Sometimes I struggle with not doing the prep work beforehand. I hope I can get better at doing the work beforehand so I can be well prepared for opportunities instead of missing them due to lack of preparation. I think this is the biggest obstacle between me and the work of my dreams, as well as in other areas. I have trouble finding the balance between you can't be prepared for everything, and the good kind of preparation that clearly defines what you are about.
Well I think you can find the balance, and I hope to continue on with this project and finish it all the way.
Does anyone else struggle with talking about their accomplishments? Most of the time I don't feel like I can take credit for them because they were ideas, that were gifts, and then they worked out really well.
P.S. I am super loving learning Chinese!!
Monday, July 2, 2012
Today is day 18 and the goal for today was to read chapter 7 and "believe you are going to find the road 'less traveled by' and that will make the difference for you as well". This can be hard when you are discouraged. I'm going to try and believe this.
Chapter 7 was great and super encouraging as to the mechanics of finding the jobs that are the best for you in an effective process. It also had good pointers on how to deal with job hunting discouragement.
I'm going to be thinking about how I can find the road "road less traveled by" and I think part of that has to do with something I started last week. I started learning Chinese. That was the language I played when I was younger. I told my mom about it today and she was laughing remembering me playing "Chinese". I never tried to learn it before now though. I super love it. Maybe it has something to do with what I'm supposed to do with my life.
That's all for now. Sorry it's kind of short. I hope you all are well.
Chapter 7 was great and super encouraging as to the mechanics of finding the jobs that are the best for you in an effective process. It also had good pointers on how to deal with job hunting discouragement.
I'm going to be thinking about how I can find the road "road less traveled by" and I think part of that has to do with something I started last week. I started learning Chinese. That was the language I played when I was younger. I told my mom about it today and she was laughing remembering me playing "Chinese". I never tried to learn it before now though. I super love it. Maybe it has something to do with what I'm supposed to do with my life.
That's all for now. Sorry it's kind of short. I hope you all are well.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Day 17's activity is to "make a list of 10-12 kinds of work" that blend the three areas Miller talks about (skills and abilities, personality traits, and dreams and passions). Here are 12 options I came up with. I did 6 more specific and 6 more general kinds of work
1. Be a homemaker
2. Teach Spanish privately
3. Do an afterschool Spanish program in several schools
4. Be a business developer (culture in business)
5. Teach English in a Foreign country or in America
6. Learn a language
7. Teaching
8. Strategics/Creating New Ideas
9. Coding/Decoding software
10. Culture Decoding
11. Translation
12. Interpreting
Countdown to the Work I Love questions
1. I'm starting to. I am competent in many areas and need to develop the work I love.
2. No I don't.
3. Yes, very easily. Sometimes I struggle because I can see my skills transferring to so many areas I don't know which to pick.
4. Yes.
5. No not yet. Maybe if I were to pursue ESL or any computer software work.
6. This is the best question of all the questions in this book so far. I have asked myself something like this question since grade school. "Has God given you abilities that do not match your desires? If so, how can you reconcile those?" I really don't know the answer to this question. I feel like this is true in my life. I have a hard time separating my desires out of my skills. Some things keep coming up over and over again in my life, but I don't know how to make sense of it, are they desires or not. I'm just going to believe that God doesn't keep us in an I don't know place. This is really my struggle with a topic the book talked about before about "sanctified ignorance" and "serving God" in a naive way leading to a life out of alignment which I have done. I want to find the authentic path to a purposeful life.
1. Be a homemaker
2. Teach Spanish privately
3. Do an afterschool Spanish program in several schools
4. Be a business developer (culture in business)
5. Teach English in a Foreign country or in America
6. Learn a language
7. Teaching
8. Strategics/Creating New Ideas
9. Coding/Decoding software
10. Culture Decoding
11. Translation
12. Interpreting
Countdown to the Work I Love questions
1. I'm starting to. I am competent in many areas and need to develop the work I love.
2. No I don't.
3. Yes, very easily. Sometimes I struggle because I can see my skills transferring to so many areas I don't know which to pick.
4. Yes.
5. No not yet. Maybe if I were to pursue ESL or any computer software work.
6. This is the best question of all the questions in this book so far. I have asked myself something like this question since grade school. "Has God given you abilities that do not match your desires? If so, how can you reconcile those?" I really don't know the answer to this question. I feel like this is true in my life. I have a hard time separating my desires out of my skills. Some things keep coming up over and over again in my life, but I don't know how to make sense of it, are they desires or not. I'm just going to believe that God doesn't keep us in an I don't know place. This is really my struggle with a topic the book talked about before about "sanctified ignorance" and "serving God" in a naive way leading to a life out of alignment which I have done. I want to find the authentic path to a purposeful life.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Hey guys! I am really struggling with this one. Obviously, I haven't posted in two days because I have been avoiding it.
I'm not really liking the resume part of the process, I just want to leave it off because I hate thinking about myself and listing my accomplishments because I feel like I can't take credit for them, but I'm now just trying to focus on how I can help others get what they want through my skills. I'm also focusing on what I like to do. I'm obsessing on making it perfect on the first try but this is a process and I just need to stick to it.
Here is my New Resume using the appendix resumes as an outline. My plan is to only work on it for thirty minutes today and then post it to avoid the obsessing. Yesterday I worked on it for a while and then took a break and did not come back to it because I want it be perfect but I have to let that go and just do something.
Sophia Sizemore
(contact info removed to protect my privacy)
SKILLS SUMMARY
Over four years of teaching experience. High language learning ability. Speaks multiple languages. Likes ideas and trying new things. Strong work ethic. Likes helping people. Committed to life long learning.
QUALIFICATIONS
Leadership
Directed a summer program with duties including hiring staff, scheduling field trips and classroom visitors, training new staff, and leading team meetings. Planned the daily, weekly and monthly schedule for the teachers as well as students.
Innovation
Created and pilot tested an introduction to Spanish program for preschoolers. Program started as an after school elective and was adopted into the morning curriculum and taught for several years. Created the "Staff Review" where teachers could comment on the good things they saw other teachers doing, and one teacher would win a monthly prize.
Technical Ability
Studied abroad in Spain and France gaining an experiential knowledge of Spanish and French. Currently studying Chinese (Mandarin). Know basic elements of German, Hebrew, and Persian.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(removed to protect my privacy)
EDUCATION
(removed to protect my privacy)
REFERENCES
Available upon request
Thirty minutes is up so I'm going to stop. I was thinking about it just now and I think my problem is that since I'm an ideas person, ideas just come into my head and I don't feel like I can take credit for them. What's funny is that sometimes I don't take credit for "bad ideas" either. But I'm a paradox because sometimes I do take credit for my ideas, like when I feel good about my idea working or someone praises me for a good idea, or if I get upset when someone uses my idea and says it like they were the one who had it. Also I do take credit sometimes for "bad ideas" like when I broke my shoulder after I had the idea to jump like I was a figure skater when I was on roller blades...
I'm embarrassed because many of my ideas have been very successful and I don't feel like I can take credit for them because I feel like ideas are a gift.
Do you think you can take credit for ideas?
I'm not really liking the resume part of the process, I just want to leave it off because I hate thinking about myself and listing my accomplishments because I feel like I can't take credit for them, but I'm now just trying to focus on how I can help others get what they want through my skills. I'm also focusing on what I like to do. I'm obsessing on making it perfect on the first try but this is a process and I just need to stick to it.
Here is my New Resume using the appendix resumes as an outline. My plan is to only work on it for thirty minutes today and then post it to avoid the obsessing. Yesterday I worked on it for a while and then took a break and did not come back to it because I want it be perfect but I have to let that go and just do something.
Sophia Sizemore
(contact info removed to protect my privacy)
SKILLS SUMMARY
Over four years of teaching experience. High language learning ability. Speaks multiple languages. Likes ideas and trying new things. Strong work ethic. Likes helping people. Committed to life long learning.
QUALIFICATIONS
Leadership
Directed a summer program with duties including hiring staff, scheduling field trips and classroom visitors, training new staff, and leading team meetings. Planned the daily, weekly and monthly schedule for the teachers as well as students.
Innovation
Created and pilot tested an introduction to Spanish program for preschoolers. Program started as an after school elective and was adopted into the morning curriculum and taught for several years. Created the "Staff Review" where teachers could comment on the good things they saw other teachers doing, and one teacher would win a monthly prize.
Technical Ability
Studied abroad in Spain and France gaining an experiential knowledge of Spanish and French. Currently studying Chinese (Mandarin). Know basic elements of German, Hebrew, and Persian.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(removed to protect my privacy)
EDUCATION
(removed to protect my privacy)
REFERENCES
Available upon request
Thirty minutes is up so I'm going to stop. I was thinking about it just now and I think my problem is that since I'm an ideas person, ideas just come into my head and I don't feel like I can take credit for them. What's funny is that sometimes I don't take credit for "bad ideas" either. But I'm a paradox because sometimes I do take credit for my ideas, like when I feel good about my idea working or someone praises me for a good idea, or if I get upset when someone uses my idea and says it like they were the one who had it. Also I do take credit sometimes for "bad ideas" like when I broke my shoulder after I had the idea to jump like I was a figure skater when I was on roller blades...
I'm embarrassed because many of my ideas have been very successful and I don't feel like I can take credit for them because I feel like ideas are a gift.
Do you think you can take credit for ideas?
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Day 16...sort of.
Sorry guys I can't blog for real tonight. It's really late, and the goal today is to tweak your resume and use one of the templates to help you tweak it. I am really tired and know I will just go through the motions and not invest myself in like I should. Also, when I stay up too late, I feel really bad the next day so I am deciding to do a double post tomorrow and lay off of posting tonight.
The legalist inside me is freaking out, but I know this is the right choice. Basically I'm human and have limits. Thanks for understanding. See you tomorrow!
Sorry guys I can't blog for real tonight. It's really late, and the goal today is to tweak your resume and use one of the templates to help you tweak it. I am really tired and know I will just go through the motions and not invest myself in like I should. Also, when I stay up too late, I feel really bad the next day so I am deciding to do a double post tomorrow and lay off of posting tonight.
The legalist inside me is freaking out, but I know this is the right choice. Basically I'm human and have limits. Thanks for understanding. See you tomorrow!
Monday, June 25, 2012
So I fell asleep after reading Chapter 6 last Friday and took off for Saturday and Sunday so I am back today for Day 15!
Today's activity was to think through how your current resume sells you (that's when I fell asleep lol I was still thinking over Day 14 too). The question is "does it position you for what you want to continue doing, or is it just a historical overview of what you've done?"
Here is my current resume. I modified it to protect my privacy.
Sophia Sizemore
(contact info removed for privacy's sake)
Resume
Objective: To further my teaching career by applying a multi-level approach to language acquisition. I am creative and systematic in my approach to language acquisition. I love using languages to further communication.
Qualifications:
Experience in an international classroom; a semester abroad as a grammar student in France as well as a semester abroad at a university level in Spain.
Adult management skills gained while Assistant Director for Summer Program at Pre-School
Experience teaching about language through an introduction to Spanish program I created that was piloted as an after-school elective and was later adopted as part of the morning curriculum
2+ years experience in organizing weekly field trips
Other Skills
Experience in teaching to a class of students at varying skill levels
Tutoring experience in Spelling, Spanish, and Math
Creating and submitting lesson plans
Speaking Spanish on a good level as well as moderate French
Willing to learn other languages
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
January 2008-May 2012
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts with distinction Spanish major; French minor
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
(removed for privacy's sake)
I was originally just going to post my whole resume but then I got nervous with all my personal info on it so I modified it but apart from that, this is what my resume looks like. I think it sells me for what I'm trying to do, but I did speak recently with a free career counselor at a community college here and she said that it was too general. I think this resume is true to me, but it has not produced any interviews for me so far.
I think a functional resume with a chronological section will probably work best for me. That seems to be what I have now, and hopefully I can tweak it to be even better than it is now. It's probably my job searching process and lack of owning my dreams and passions that is not working, not just the resume part.
Well that's all for tonight. See you all tomorrow!
Today's activity was to think through how your current resume sells you (that's when I fell asleep lol I was still thinking over Day 14 too). The question is "does it position you for what you want to continue doing, or is it just a historical overview of what you've done?"
Here is my current resume. I modified it to protect my privacy.
Sophia Sizemore
(contact info removed for privacy's sake)
Resume
Objective: To further my teaching career by applying a multi-level approach to language acquisition. I am creative and systematic in my approach to language acquisition. I love using languages to further communication.
Qualifications:
Experience in an international classroom; a semester abroad as a grammar student in France as well as a semester abroad at a university level in Spain.
Adult management skills gained while Assistant Director for Summer Program at Pre-School
Experience teaching about language through an introduction to Spanish program I created that was piloted as an after-school elective and was later adopted as part of the morning curriculum
2+ years experience in organizing weekly field trips
Other Skills
Experience in teaching to a class of students at varying skill levels
Tutoring experience in Spelling, Spanish, and Math
Creating and submitting lesson plans
Speaking Spanish on a good level as well as moderate French
Willing to learn other languages
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
January 2008-May 2012
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts with distinction Spanish major; French minor
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
(removed for privacy's sake)
I was originally just going to post my whole resume but then I got nervous with all my personal info on it so I modified it but apart from that, this is what my resume looks like. I think it sells me for what I'm trying to do, but I did speak recently with a free career counselor at a community college here and she said that it was too general. I think this resume is true to me, but it has not produced any interviews for me so far.
I think a functional resume with a chronological section will probably work best for me. That seems to be what I have now, and hopefully I can tweak it to be even better than it is now. It's probably my job searching process and lack of owning my dreams and passions that is not working, not just the resume part.
Well that's all for tonight. See you all tomorrow!
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