Recently I have seen a number of folks posting on twitter their #OneWord for 2018. I've never been one to make New Year Resolutions. But I decided to pick a word for myself for 2018. What you say is that one word? Well if you didn't guess by the title of this blog, it's TIME.
Why time you may ask? I'm mean come on I have seen folks I know post words like Possibility, Focus, Trust, Purpose, etc. So why TIME?
Simple I wear a lot of hats (TOSA, CTA State Council, TKSCC Chair, CTA/ABC). Each of these requires a commitment of time. Time spent prepping, teaching, leading, planning, etc. But what about myself? Do I deserve Time?
Recently a friend didn't ask me to do a task, instead, she said "Nora, you do it. You don't have kids so you have time." I didn't say it but I thought just because I don't have kids doesn't mean I have time to do what she wanted. I mean I wear a lot of hats and they all require time from me.
The last day of school before our Winter break I attended a meeting with a group of fellow teachers. We meet to create the questions for a survey that we need to give. It took us about 45 minutes to hammer out the questions for our survey and write them down. I had told them after we formulated the questions I would create a Google Form to use for the survey. So after we finished writing down the question one colleague asked when would the survey be ready to send out to everyone. The leader of our group turned to me and said it will be ready tomorrow right? My response was "No". No? The look on several peoples faces was what? See I had plans for Christmas and was leaving the next day for San Francisco and I said I would not even start working on the Google Form until after I returned.
Why did I do this? Because even though I have many hats and spend a large amount of time devoted to them the one thing I have not been doing is scheduling time for me.
If I want to be happy and healthy I have to schedule time for me. Time to recharge my batteries. Time to do things I enjoy. Time to read and not just read books, magazines, and blogs related to my work but time to read for personal pleasure. Time to go to the movies or dinner with friends.
So while I will schedule time for all my hats in 2018 I will also schedule time for me. If you want time for me and there is no time left in the day, week or month then the answer will be no or not now but later.
