Step 1: Post a reflection on “Believe It and You’ll See It” with the following prompts in mind: Think back to a time when you believed in something- and it happened. How much of a hand did you have in creating the outcome you were hoping for? I was incredibly prepared for trying to get an art educator job in the area. No matter how much I prepared there would be no guarantee that I would get a job in the area. I was starting to look into plan B, moving to Alaska where they need all kinds of teachers or at least at the time. Do you agree with Dewitt's claim that we need to "believe it, and then we'll see it?" I truly believed that I would be a great art teacher and was actually wanted to mainly be at Byron. I wrote all my resume materials praising Byron and the experience I had there. I had a job interview at PEM for a middle school position and did not get the job. There wasn't even a Byron opening, but then the Byron MS teacher took the PEM MS teaching job creating an opening in Byron. In the mean time I got an interview at Byron, but before I could do the interview I got offered a job in Stewartville. This is where the believe it, and then we'll see it comes in. I actually turned down the job at Stewartville and at my interview I asked if they could tell me right away, because I may or may not have a job at Stewartville and I explained what had happened. My roommate could have killed me she was so upset with me for turning down a job as a first year teacher. She went to school for education for history. In the end I got the job in Byron and they let me know almost immediately after the interviews that the job was mine. I have been at Byron ever since. It was one of the biggest risks I have ever taken, but when you do big risks there are usually big rewards. Or, do you think that you need some idea that what you're striving for is realistic; that you don't want to spend your life constantly chasing dreams that are totally unattainable. I believe it can go either way it just depends on how lofty your goal is.