Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Taking Care of Yourself

A mentor/counselor that often comes to our school to provide professional development to teachers gave us a "taking care of self" assessment last year. After rating how we were doing on each one, we had to select three that we would "work on" over the next several months. After trying mono-tasking on Wednesday evening, I was reminded of the critical need to take care of myself. See how well you are doing...
1. Get 7-8 hours of sleep each night
2. Exercise for 20 minutes at least 3 times a week
3. Learn to love and accept yourself as you are
4. Have a quiet time each day
5. Slow down, step back and assess your life. Have you done this in the last month?
*6. Start practicing "letting go" more and "holding on" less
7. Choose to use an open hand approach to life rather than a closed fist approach
8. Be less controlling of others and of situations. Accept more.
9. Slow down your breathing
10. Choose to trust, accept and act
11. Treat yourself to a massage
12. Don't do the same thing over and over, expecting new results. Try a new approach
*13. Be where you are and present with what you are doing, instead of wishing you were somewhere else or doing something else
14. Do something that you enjoy everyday
15. Be aware of those with whom you spend time
16. Set priorities and manage your time better
17. Learn to say "no" more often
18. Figure out what is important for this moment and do it
*19. Learn that more is not always better
20. Accept more and resist less

I put a * by my top three to work on. Which ones would you choose to work on?

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