I'm really grateful for all of the support I got here when I had insomnia the night before my community college's first day of meetings before classes start next week. I let that date come up on me totally unprepared.

So now, since classes start Jan. 20 on this coming Wednesday, I'm not going to let myself be unprepared again. What I want to learn to do is to use my therapy and support group PTSD coping skills so I don't amp myself up about routine new things like the first day of a new semester teaching. If you know of guided meditations, affirmations like this one I found online, could you send me your links?

I found this one online that goes right to the point:
http://info.marygrove.edu/MATblog/bid/94977/And-doggone-it-people-like-me-10-Affirmations-for-teachers

"Imagine a teacher who wakes up in the morning and says, Theres never enough time in the day. I work more hours than I have to really make a difference. I cannot possibly be expected to meet all of the curriculum goals without team planning time. Im so tired of the technology not working when I need it!

Now imagine a teacher who wakes and says, I will strive to reduce my students anxiety before their test today. I will speak positively with others and listen with compassion.

That's totally me. Just on that last point saying "I'm so tired of the technology not working when I need it!" At my community college we have a distance learning system that's notorious for shutting down right in the middle of class. Along the same lines, I'm going up for tenure this semester and am expected to print off all teaching evaluations students have recorded about my classes for the last five years. They are stored on our computer system, but when I printed them off this week I found the computer system had lost all of my teaching evaluations for the semester of Spring 2015. So argh. The stress!

I need to take the advice from this affirmation, then, and I could really use more affirmations along the same lines between now and Wed. Jan. 20th. As this affirmation I found says here, on the evening of Wed. Jan. 20th I need to go to be getting myself ready to wake up and say " I will strive to reduce my students anxiety before their test today. I will speak positively with others and listen with compassion.

So can you offer links to any more affirmations? To affirmations that can be tools to help me be ready to wake up and say that on Wed. Jan. 20th when classes start? Thanks!