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Spending Our Lives
September 15, 2011
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
-Kay Redfield Jamison, American psychologist and writer
-Kay Redfield Jamison, American psychologist and writer
To help us examine if we are spending our time effectively Vicars suggests asking yourself questions such as the following:
- Do I allow people to command my time in unproductive activities?
- Do I have to do these tasks or can I allow someone else the opportunity to grow from the experience and free me up for critical activities that I should do?
- Do I do certain activities that are consistent with my body clock so that I maximize performance while minimizing time usage?
- Do I carve out time in the day where no one is allowed to bother me unless it is a life and death situation to a child, parent, or staff person?
- Do I work on my really important stuff first or do I look for feel good checklist stuff of low priority and little value to my job?
- Do I spend my time where my greatest rate of return will be (i.e., teachers and parents)?
- Do I spend more time doing what is important as opposed to doing what I like to do?
- Do we really need to have a meeting about this?
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