I have long come across Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous saying, “Do something that scares you every day”, but @Natalia’s posting of this quote in the Stacker Saloon really helped me focus my mind and arrive at a work decision.
The context is, I’m the literacy support I/C tasked to support students with dyslexia in my school. The beginning-of-year orientation happened two weeks ago, and when my first-year students and I underwent the workshops conducted by the various vocational teachers, I noticed that they used many words that are related to soft c/hard c rule.
Now, as the I/C, I felt that it was my responsibility to educate the whole school staff about this rule so that everyone would know how to help students who mispronounce “certain” and “cell” as “curtain” and “call” respectively. So I wrote an email.
But I didn’t dare to send it to the entire school, because the previous literacy coach attempted no such thing. I didn’t want people to misconstrue my intentions and think that I was trying to flaunt my knowledge or score brownie points with the school leaders.
Since Natalia’s comment put this quotation at the forefront of my mind, I thought to myself, Fxxx it, and proceeded to send out the email yesterday. So that was the second most scary thing I did this week. (The most scary thing was asking my wife if she was angry with me lol.)
How about you? Pushed yourself out of your comfort zone recently?