Most of you are now coming back off the holiday break, and I’ve been seeing the same struggle across the board with my clients. After a couple of weeks of lounging around, resting up, and having fun, they’re feeling resistant to getting back to work, experiencing what I’m calling the after-break blues.

We’re in the midst of winter, which means it’s dark, cold, and gloomy, and many teachers and school leaders are experiencing a dip in energy and morale. On top of that, it’s also the middle of the school calendar year, which means the motivation and delight at the beginning of the year have probably faded a little. But the good news is that this is just a temporary phase, and today, I’m showing you how to start feeling better.

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I have been talking to school leaders throughout the past month, and they’ve been telling me all about the worries and stresses around one of the biggest focuses in their work: testing. They came back from the holidays, and their brains started panicking about testing, so that’s exactly what we’re talking about in today’s episode.

Both kids and teachers have been out sick, quarantining, and everyone was already so far behind anyway. So, with everything that we’re facing in 2022, what can we do to ease our minds while giving our kids the best chance of being successful in their tests?

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Throughout the month of January, we’ve been exploring what we think is possible and investigating all the things we think are impossible for us and why. You might have some personal and professional aspirations that feel like a stretch right now, but I’m offering to you this week that there are amazing goals within your reach that you’ve never even considered before.

Whether it’s expanding your skills as a school leader, balancing your time better, or wilder dreams like becoming a millionaire, your brain is probably telling you it’s simply not reasonable or possible. But the truth is every goal is impossible only until it’s conceived, and this week, I’m inviting you to use the concept of future possibility to go after what you want.

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Throughout January, we’re going to cover four concepts that will help you reboot your brain and connect to the goals you want to achieve as a school leader as well as outside of school. And to kick off, I’m introducing you to a philosophy I teach and live by all about not fearing numbers. 

When it comes to school goals, so many of them are driven by numbers. Turn your mind to test scores, student attendance, behavior referrals… the list goes on. But there are also other goals that feel less measurable, like school climate, parent satisfaction, and leadership impact. And setting numbers as a measure of progress here can feel scary.

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As a gift to all of you listeners, I have decided to drop an extra holiday bonus special to help you through the festive season. If you know you’re going to have to deal with someone who bugs you this holiday season, you’re in the right place.

This time of year can be highly stressful and we have to deal with a lot of people, and we all know someone who gets on our nerves. So whether it’s somebody at work or someone in your personal life, this episode is all about how to deal with that one person who triggers you, and how you can choose to react when they bug you.

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