Knowing Your Soul Gifts
I came into this world with a soul blueprint to teach and lead. From my first career of teaching elementary and junior high children to professional training and learning development of adults worldwide, my soul has never stopped illuminating my unique gifts of teaching and facilitating.
When I was only five years old and experienced my first classroom experience in kindergarten, I would set up classroom in our small farm home which consisted of the coffee table in the living room. I would make up activities and teach to my pretend students sitting around the coffee table. We would take breaks from paper work to go outside to collect nature objects to use in creating art and science projects. I loved my pretend classroom and teaching those well-behaved imaginary students.
I was blessed to have a guiding light and powerful mentor in my life who was a talented teacher and determined leader of our community.
My grandmother became a widow when my father was four years old. She had to overcome greedy brother-in-law’s trying to take over the farm she inherited and raising a young son without a father. In the 1930-1940 era, fatherless status was considered a disability or handicap which my Grandmother was determined to rise above.
And she did with a willpower and determination to obtain her teaching degree, her soul’s passion, along with managing a huge crop farm. She provided for my father better than any 2-parent family in that era and obtained many accolades as the best teacher in the community as her soul guided her.
Grandmother Agnes would take me to her classrooms as a little girl sitting me in the front row where she gave me paper and pencil to take in the lessons. I excelled in many subjects with her teaching methods.
I observed in awe of her strong discipline with compassionate, loving ways she taught every child with different abilities. Not disabilities but abilities and potential of each child beyond what they were taught or told they were capable of. Grandmother Agnes never put children in categories or labeled them. She created pure magic in the classroom.
My Grandmother knew I had a soul gift for teaching, also, and encouraged me every step of the way. When I was in high school, she encouraged me to be a tutor, so I gained experience with all types of learning abilities and ages.
I volunteered my tutoring services at my high school, which wasn’t available at the time. I began by tutoring older boys who were farm laborers how to read and understand mathematics. My senior year in high school, I created the structure and format for FTA, Future Teachers of America, before heading off to college to obtain my educational degree. My teaching soul blueprint kept guiding me and giving me ideas of how to contribute.
At one point in my college days, I dropped out of university for a quarter and decided to hitchhike across country to San Francisco to experience the revolutions that were happening during this decade of unrest and civil rights. As the VW bus started the trek from Bowling Green, Ohio, it broke down in Indiana where I woke up to hearing my Grandmother’s voice teaching. Whether it was an Angel or my guilty conscious, I rushed back to university and planned to get serious about my teaching degree as my soul reminded me, this was my mission.
Ironically, my first teaching job was in the same school district and room where my Grandmother taught her last few years before retirement. I didn’t even apply for the job as it magically appeared at the last moment before the school year started. The principal reached out to my Grandmother for references as they were in a pickle to fill the position in less than two weeks.
I graduated from college on August 8th and started my first official teaching position on August 22 with the support and confidence building my Grandmother provided me. I was apprehensive as I had little or no time to prepare yet my Grandmother reminded me. “You have been teaching since you were five years old, tutoring older students and now you have your very own classroom to shine your soul gifts of teaching. You are a natural born teacher so let your heart lead as your soul already knows what to do.”
We all know our soul gifts when we are young children yet soon forget. Our society, educational systems, cultures and generational expectations condition us to be something our souls are not designed to do.
Knowing and trusting your soul gifts is more important than ever in this fast-changing world. Today, I continue to teach and mentor as founder of the Inner Leader Movement, a heart centered intuitive evolutionary process for soul growth and expansion. My soul soars as I help others tap into their true soul gifts by remembering and trusting the process of this lifetime’s soul evolution.
If you are curious about leading with your heart’s intuitive intelligence and how to activate your soul design and blueprint to contribute your soul gifts, sign up for a free consultation and experience the AWE-You evolutionary process for bringing your true talents and unique gifts to the world.
