Explains what to do to ensure you will feel good about teaching. Here's good advice to live by, including: attitudes that will promote your personal happiness, ways to respond when policies get in the way of teaching effectively, practical strategies for communicating diplomatically with colleagues, ideas for addressing student behavior issues, approaches to take with problem parents. These preventive maintenance strategies plus a "suggestion-a-day" will keep you in a positive frame of mind regardless of the obstacles you face.