{"id":41,"date":"2016-10-15T18:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/?p=41"},"modified":"2016-10-15T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T18:21:04","slug":"opening-doors-how-im-expanding-my-own-growth-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/2016\/10\/15\/opening-doors-how-im-expanding-my-own-growth-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Doors&#8230; How I&#8217;m Expanding My Own Growth Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/files\/2016\/10\/Opening-Doors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/files\/2016\/10\/Opening-Doors-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of: http:\/\/naturalwayofbeing.com\/Websites\/yournaturalgift\/images\/doors_and_veil-300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of: http:\/\/naturalwayofbeing.com\/Websites\/yournaturalgift\/images\/doors_and_veil-300.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hitting 40 two years ago set off a chain reaction of growth and reflection that is taking me to unknown places. \u00a0I&#8217;m not even sure yet where I&#8217;m heading, and I strive daily to remain OK with the not knowing.<\/p>\n<p>As an educator, I&#8217;m the one at the front of the room, the expert imparting my knowledge, so it&#8217;s hard not having an end goal in mind.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m opening doors. \u00a0I&#8217;m trying new things, learning new skills, making connections, in hopes of narrowing down all of the things that I&#8217;m passionate about and finding out what I&#8217;m meant to be doing. \u00a0Teaching. \u00a0Coaching. \u00a0Leadership. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know where it will take me but I take comfort in remembering that <strong><em>Life is a Journey<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em> and\u00a0in knowing that I&#8217;m on the path.\u00a0<a class='bp-suggestions-mention' href='https:\/\/cohort21.com\/members\/adamcaplan\/' rel='nofollow'>@adamcaplan<\/a> <a class='bp-suggestions-mention' href='https:\/\/cohort21.com\/members\/mneale\/' rel='nofollow'>@mneale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hitting 40 two years ago set off a chain reaction of growth and reflection that is taking me to unknown places. \u00a0I&#8217;m not even sure yet where I&#8217;m heading, and I strive daily to remain OK with the not knowing. As an educator, I&#8217;m the one at the front of the room, the expert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/2016\/10\/15\/opening-doors-how-im-expanding-my-own-growth-mindset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opening Doors&#8230; How I&#8217;m Expanding My Own Growth Mindset&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/kellycarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}