Joy for the sake of joy is a worthy cause indeed. When you’re having fun, everyone around you is more likely to have fun too. FUN is a learning tool and learning fuel. Too often an underrated one.
An Underrated Learning Tool
Switching Up Routines
So, as we head into this week, what’s one little switch up that you could make? Perhaps it’s grabbing coffee from a different spot or driving a different route to work. Maybe it’s stepping outside to eat the lunch you packed or choosing to play a game with loved ones instead of doom scrolling on your phone for an hour.
A Little Space for Joy
Make space for the joy. If we lose this kind of exposure, how will we evolve and grow? How will our kids evolve and grow? But most importantly, what if we don’t know we love something, and we miss an opportunity to find out?
A Note about 1st Days
Whether you’re creating a new staff orientation day or welcoming a new member to your office team this summer, how might you make the first day special?
Presence vs. Convenience
This week if something comes your way that wasn’t what your choice…even in the smallest way, allow yourself to be awake in the noticing. There might be something there for you. A small lesson, a reminder, a memory, or perhaps a jolt out of the regular and routine that allows you to see beauty that exists in this one precious little life.
All We Have
Whatever each moment brings, let’s allow ourselves to live fully in it. It’s all we have in the end.
Less Rush More Relationship
We see a different side of our students at after school events, but we see each other in a new light too.
That Time of Year
Instead of putting too much pressure on ourselves to execute perfectly these last couple of weeks, let's extend deep care to ourselves, our students, and each other.
Bruised Apples
All I know is that it felt special to have someone looking out for me that day. And I see educators looking out for kids in so many ways in our schools too. Perhaps they are extending kindness to students that one special person extended to them when they themselves were in school. And that's the ripple effect. That's a legacy of learning.
Seeing Others More Deeply
As I say in Legacy of Learning, "Let's set the pressure of perfection, grand goals, and big gestures aside. Let's see the beauty in sunrises, smiles, kind words, and the people who simply show up every day." A legacy of seeing others more deeply. And perhaps in doing so, this life that we say is "flying by" will move just a smidge more slowly for us to relish.
MEGHAN LAWSON 