How might you start to resolve a current conflict in your life?

For the past several months I've been feeling conflicted about my work and how I might do it in a way that feels truer and righter to me.
I do honestly have a sense that things will come together about my work if I do what seems right, if I follow my heart and use my brain to do that. Still, I feel pretty stuck with teaching the eighth grade some days, and I know I want to move my work into a place where it really feeds my soul and where, therefore, I can be the ballast and catalyst for growth and creativity that I know I can be for my students.
Here's what I'm doing to resolve this:
Grad school. I know the teachers I'll be working with, most of them, and it's a good program. I think it'll give me a stronger sense of direction. Maybe I don't want to be in public education at all. I believe if I feel the question(s) honestly the answer(s) will come.
Reflection. I've been keeping a daily journal of my thoughts, experiences, feelings, and lessons. It does help. I see so much how my own complacency, or at least the beginnings of it, hasn't helped this situation. I have also been listing ways I can bring back my own fire, ways I can have more exuberance and energy teaching, ways I can make the bureaucratic encumbrances fall more lightly on me.
Conversations with people whose thoughts and opinions matter to me. My old friend Gayle back in Athens, my friend Mike in the Central Valley of Cali who is new to teaching and struggling with his atrisk kids, my mentor Marc in Monterey who was just reprimanded for his union work and for speaking up against injustice in the workplace, another mentor, Peggy, with whom I student taught and who got me fired up about place-based ed to begin with, my sisinlaw Andrea who is a passionate and strong high school math teacher in New Haven. And others.
Daily meditation. Sitting and thinking and just putting out my soul to be moved where it needs to go, into what pocket of work it fits best.
This was what my meditation, or one of about three, offered me this morning. It comes from a book called 365 Nirvana: Here and Now (Living Every Moment in Enlightenment). I just kind of open up the book and whatever is there almost always resonates.

So the secret is just to say "Yes!" and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself in the present moment, always yourself, without sticking to an old self. You forget all about yourself and are refreshed. You are a new self, and before that self becomes an old self, you say "Yes!" and you walk to the kitchen for breakfast. So the point of each moment is to forget the point and extend your practice.
--Shunryu Suzuki

I don't remember for sure, but I imagine that's from Suzuki's book Zen Mind Beginner's Mind. Beginner's mind is really, really what I'm after here: a sense of wide openness about what I want to do with my path, a sense of freshness and fire that also contains strength and steadfastness. I don't think it's about forgetting who I am but rather about waking up anew to the best parts of that.
It helps to write about it here. Thanks for listening, y'all.
Laura