The last post was so late that it feels to soon to be doing another one.
After hearing the term bandied around enough, I think I may have a sinus infection. Just did a little googling and seems likely. Man, Google is a wonderful thing when used for good. My self-care hunches seem correct. It will go away on it's own, using a neti pot for a warm salt-water rinse in the nose is useful, but not super useful, mainly will reduce symptoms. Decongestant will help me sleep at night. It's fascinating, the body's own power to self-heal, and how our medicines are often much less effective, or they are just supporting the main work that the bodies own immune system is doing. Aside perhaps from antibiotics, which are like the nuke of medicines. Works, but often a lot of collateral damage. While our immune system is going in, cell by cell, and eliminating the bad ones. So amazing.
I am slowly, ever so slowly, streamlining my work process, getting my life more and more in order so I can get more done. I've just started rocking a habit tracker, just a simple piece of paper with a grid system that lets me check off every day if I've done x habit. It's simple but profoundly powerful, when kept on my desk where I can see it. I know for a fact I would have completely forgotten about all the habits I'd written there this morning, if I hadn't had it right at hand to reference, and seeing the check marks build up over time is really quite satisfying. A good tool. That reminds me to use other good tools. Using this I'm starting to track my daily progress on spelling (something I've always been below average in, and something a teacher should be good at), studying for my Montessori certification exam coming up at the end of the summer, and practicing cursive, which most Montessori schools use, and I don't know well enough to use with any speed. At some point that will switch over to primarily handwriting practice, where I'm just trying to clean-up and tidy up my handwriting. I can make it neat enough, when I really slow down and concentrate on it, but it would be nice to have a clean, legible hand at a decent speed, as a teacher, both to model it, and to be easy to read, and I suppose to serve as a role model for other kids who have messy handwriting: I can show them my old handwriting along side my new handwriting, and they can know there's hope for them too, with practice. Though I suppose that is yet to be determined. But it seems like any other skill: you should improve with practice.
In any case, this way I will hopefully be reminded to do at least a few minutes every day, and as we all know, spaced practice is more useful than clumped practice.
I have a little dream: a clean, beautiful workspace that is a joy to look at and work at. My obstical is it's trying to do and be too much. I have so many different things I'm working on. I have lots of useful things on my desk, but some aren't work related, and some aren't used that frequently. The proccess of sorting that all out to make something that is both minimal and functional is a little daunting. But I'll get there eventually.
Oh dear, so much to do. I wanted to get this out of the way, but it's used up almost all my early morning work time this morning. Well, until next time.
-Isaac
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