{"id":51565,"date":"2024-09-01T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/?p=51565"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:58:35","slug":"balance-is-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/blog\/balance-is-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance is Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If I could remind you of one thing as you begin the school year, it would be this:<\/p>\n

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Excuse my French, but balance is b*llsh*<\/em>t, my friend.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I had a conversation with a school wellness committee in Michigan last week whose wellness initiative embraces radical wellness.<\/p>\n

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[First of all, how amazing is it that they have a Wellness Committee!?]<\/p>\n

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We got to talking about the ways we, as a society, celebrate the hard work of employees.<\/p>\n

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How often have you heard someone bragging about how hard someone works, how late they stay making sure that every item is off of their to-do list, or how early someone gets to work.<\/p>\n

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It’s time to change this narrative.<\/p>\n

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If Maggie (sorry to all you Maggies<\/em>) is being celebrated by her boss for staying at school until 5:30 p.m. every day, that becomes exemplary.<\/p>\n

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And that can\u2019t continue happening.<\/p>\n

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If she is staying at work until 5:30 p.m. on the daily, I can guarantee that more than one other area of Maggie\u2019s life (health, family, friends, recreation, spirituality, finances, personal growth, etc.) is taking a major hit.<\/p>\n

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Let me introduce you to a key happiness habit, flow. Flow is NOT balance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u274c Balance says that all areas need equal attention.
\u2705 Flow allows priorities to shift as needed.<\/p>\n

\u274c Balance requires rigidity.
\u2705 Flow allows for flexibility.<\/p>\n

\u274c Balance often leads to feelings of guilt and shame
\u2705 Flow can lead you to feelings of freedom.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the bottom line: this year is going to require a lot from you (as it always does). But YOU get to set the expectations and priorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On weeks that require a whole lot of grading or extra time at school, make sure you are intentional with sticking to your contract hours in the surrounding weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There is a reflection activity in the “Flow” chapter of my book, Teach Happy<\/a>, that walks you through how to make this happen and create more flow in your life.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’re ready to feel less overwhelmed, I can’t recommend this activity enough. I still do it when I get overwhelmed, too!<\/em><\/p>\n

As always, cheering you on and wishing you the happiest year!<\/p>\n

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If I could remind you of one thing as you begin the school year, it would be this: Excuse my French, but balance is b*llsh*t, my friend. I had a conversation with a school wellness committee in Michigan last week whose wellness initiative embraces radical wellness. [First of all, how amazing is it that they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joy-drop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51635,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51565\/revisions\/51635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}