It has been a few days since I have posted, and it really amazes me how many things I have been working through in that short period of time. On the 28th I had a meeting with some other leaders across the district regarding our transition to the Common Core standards. I have been leading the elementary school grade level leaders (one per each school) in the area of math this past year. Given that we just adopted to transition this year, I have worked with only Kindergarten and First grade. It was really encouraging to hear how my colleagues were talking about my work. I got praise for what I was doing and heard what a positive thing it was that we were doing this. I also was told how well I have done leading the groups from others who had heard from teachers I have worked with. It was nice to hear these things at a time when I am trying to figure life out.
After that, I have spent the past couple days playing with my son and doing nothing in particular. We have been to the zoo twice, spent time with friends on a couple of occasions, watched movies, played games, and just spent time together.
I have been thinking a lot about what my plan is going to be and how I am going to approach this transformation of myself and my life to a more organized, less cluttered, happier, time-spent-on my actual #1 priorities-life. I have decided that I could sit here, pondering how to start this for months, years, but in the interest of starting I have decisions to make. Based on my 6 key areas, I am going to bundle them as "Energy & Organization," "Parenting & Relationships," and "Professionalism & Balance." Its almost a fast-track to get going, but if I dont make changes in a manageable way (and fast) I will fall back into my little rut and may never possibly emerge, risking future-me with a heart full of regret for things I never did. I am feeling that there may be another emergent "Follow your Dreams" month after the first three, but I need to get a jump start first.
I have decided that my first month will be "Energy & Organization." A friend of mine has been raving about this cleanse that she did, claiming to feel more energetic afterwards. Since I am looking for improvements that are outside the realm of my routines, I am going to give it a shot. There could be so many things I could fit under this umbrella, but I have decided to look at clearing out my clutter, tackling nagging tasks, organizing, the "one minute rule," evening tidy-up, doing something active, do one thing just for me, prioritizing, and 'early to bed, early to rise.' I may move prioritizing to month 3, I will have to see how it plays out this week. Now, today, being July 1st, I did not full-heartedly start this with a full mind. This evening looking at my goals, I did make a few of them. I went through a bookshelf and removed books that I have not read (ever or would not ever read again) to send on, and I shared with my son that we will begin going through things to get rid of them. I actually told myself while between playing activities today, "one mintue rule" and made myself clean up a little mess that took less than that time. I finally purchased an external harddrive to back up all my files...I have yet to actually do this, but one nagging task down! This evening we went on a little walk, and today in order to prepare for "my next thirty years" I bought a nice, new set of uni-ball pens. I really, really, really love office supplies and spent an hour in office depot today completing my task, looking around, and purchasing myself this this little set of pens along with a panda bear folder (my favorite animal) to hold all of my resolution sheets.
I feel that today, I am off to a good start and I hope to continue to feel as strongly about my goals. As in the book, I am using a simple check/minus system for tracking in order to not overthink things (I often do). I would like to have good routines by the end of the summer so that going into the school year, I can focus on the "Professionalism & Balance" which is going to be a real challenge for me.
Day one. :)
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