Daily Thoughts
6/4/21
Alignment. The majority of us have been in a vehicle whose wheels out of alignment, and the ride is not very pleasant. The same thing goes for the ride that we are taking through life. When our heads and our hearts are not in alignment, the ride gets pretty bumpy. The lack of alignment comes from when we pay attention to what others believe we should be doing rather than what our hearts are telling us to do. I work with teacher candidates, and I have had far too many of them tell me that they started out studying another career because they had been told that teaching is not a good career option. I have had students who have completed a degree in another field who are coming back to school to become a teacher because that’s what their heart told them to do. What is it that your heart is telling you to do that goes against what family and/or friends are advising against? As long as your heart’s desire is not to harm other people, what’s stopping you from pursuing it? How can you find the way to pursuing that desire? Are you willing to listen and align your head and your heart in the face of opposition from others in your life?
From where I sit, aligning my head and my heart has taken time, but I am happier because of it. If we all came into alignment, how different this world would be.
From Where I Sit with Dr. Mark 