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To be able to meet my future goal of becoming an educator, I will need to find a mentor to be able to help guide me. I plan on reaching out to family members and/or friends that are in the teaching profession and seeking advice from them. Advise from those that are already in the career is best because they are able to give me a better sense of direction within the career.

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To be able to bring out the best in myself I will need to be able to identify my 'gifts' and talents. To be able to identify those aspects of myself I will need to sit down and think about what are some things that I am good at, then I will incorporate those things into my career field to be able to make it more enjoyable, but also to feel proud of who I am and what I am able to do.

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A way to be able to be the best teacher and educator that I can be I need to be kind to myself. Being able to respect myself and my abilities is key to being the best me possible. I plan to be more kind to myself and not so harsh, and acknowledging the things that I am doing well in and not being so stuck on the things that I need to change to the point that they paralyze me. To build my self esteem it's important to create the life that I want and realize that I have the power to do just that.

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If I don't have any goals or steps of how and where I want to go in life then I will go no where. I want to be an Elementary school teacher and to get there I have to go through many steps to get there. Like school, student teaching and more. I need to map out the steps I need to reach my goal. I will have to sit down and think about my goals in life and list out how I will reach those goals.

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Setting realistic goals is key! Because if they aren't reasonable to my strengths then that'll create discouragement and suck my motivation away. So I have to make sure that my goals and the time frame that I want to achieve becoming a teacher is realistic, and keeping in mind my life and other factors that may affect me reaching my goals.

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Without plans, goals are unachievable. So my plan is to come up with a list of goals to achieve within the next 5-6 months and write out the steps and mini goals to be able to reach the overarching goals within my life, for a teaching career. The biggest challenge for this would be to believe in myself and to not be afraid of failure. Failure isn't the end of the world, but could be the next best opportunity to grow stronger.

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To be able to make a change in my life the desire to want to change has to be greater than the cost of the change. Within the field/career that I want to go into I have to make some changes in my every day lifestyle. I have to desire to want to change my habits of getting things done within a timely manner and even changing my mindset of where I am at in my life right now. Change can be scary and hard, but it'll always be worth it in the end if it pushes me closer to my goal.

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Sometimes we are afraid of losing what we already have, even if it means we may have the chance to gain something ten times better. We don't like to experience the feeling of vulnerability, and we like to stay feeling secured. So that causes us to not take chances in life. For me, personally, I need to take chances and not let being comfortable with where I am cause me to continue to live a life that I am not enjoying. I have to put into perspective my reasoning of why I want to teach and reignite that spark, so I can keep going.

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I need to enjoy the process that I am in to becoming an educator. It's not easy, so I can't do it alone. I need to find a friend that will help me make this process more fun, so that it's not dreadful and so that I can laugh and find pleasure in all of this madness. I can get into my head and compare myself a lot, and therefore I end up not enjoying the process. I need to find a friend that I can have fun with and keep them around to help me.