Remember, this is quite different to being a Better Slacker. You well might, but you might also be better off taking that breather. If you want to do some of the needs – all good! Jump right in! But don’t put the pressure on yourself to believe that this is the time for you to get ahead. Instead, use the time to do something in your school that you want to do.
It was a good reminder too that when those spaces afford themselves, don’t go packing them full of things that need to happen. But on Friday the stars aligned and there was nothing but space. My empty calendar on Friday could quite as easily have filled itself with all sorts of school led maladies. The difficulty is knowing when this is about to happen. There are ebbs and flows in this job, and every now and again you’ll get through it all and have time to breathe. You’ll know those types of times well I suspect.īut it did highlight something to me though that I should have reminded myself at the time. And it had been like this for a long time. It came at a particularly tricky and difficult time – full of plans that really had to fall like dominoes in the right direction for it all to come to fruition. An empty calendar.ĭon’t get me wrong, there was still plenty to do, but an empty calendar is pretty rare these days. Last Friday when David published his awesomely simple “The Positivity Button” blog, I found myself with something that hasn’t happened in months.