As we’ve discussed this month on the podcast, acting courageously as a school leader is incredibly important. We’ve discussed what courage is at length on the show, but what specific things can you do as a principal to act in courage every single day?

Being a principal is not an easy job, there is no question about that. You have parents, students, and teachers all looking to you for decisions and guidance every step of the way, and that can become overwhelming. However, if you can take action every day and be sure in yourself of what you are doing, you can make your job so much more enjoyable.

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Last week, we talked about fear and how it paralyzes you from taking action. I’m taking it a little further this week and giving you the tools you need to be able to go from inaction all the way through to taking action with conviction and from a place of genuine belief.

Whether you’re a school leader thinking about taking the next step in your life, or you’re a teacher who wants to move into a job as a principal, there is only one thing holding you back, and that is your thoughts. I’ve experienced this firsthand when I first started to dream of starting my business as a coach. I know that if I could get through it, you can too.

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We’re wrapping up the month of April with a great topic, especially as the end of the school year gets closer – goal-setting. I’m going to be using monetary goals as an example in this episode, but you can apply this work to literally anything in your school or home life.

As a school leader, I’m sure you have a lot of experience setting goals. However, a lot of the goals we are forced to set can be things we have little control over or are impossible to achieve. After a while, understandably, that starts to really bring up a lot of negativity around setting goals four ourselves, professionally and in our personal lives.

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We’re continuing on the subject of money this week with everyone’s favorite topic – debt. Okay, it’s nobody’s favorite thing to talk about, but it is incredibly important, both in your personal life and your job as a school leader.

We know that having a school desperately in need of investment in the students when you have a low budget to work with can be incredibly stressful. This crosses over into our personal lives when it comes to buying a house, or even just treating ourselves because, lord knows, we need it.

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It’s April, and this month’s topic is one of my favorites, and something that I feel isn’t discussed enough in our world –money.

Money is such a huge part of our lives, personal and professional. As a school leader, sure, we talk about allocating budgets and salaries and spending to get the best for the kids in our schools. But as a principal, there’s something lacking about the conversations we have around money mindset.

Of course, for some people, money is tricky to talk about. Some of us grew up in an environment where we didn’t talk about money because we had none, or maybe you were taught not to show off because you had plenty. Either way, as a result, money and how it makes us feel has become a kind of icky subject to broach.

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