Time

As School Leaders we spend so much time taking care of others that we sometimes forget to take care of ourselves.

As successful individuals we need to:
Make time for ourselves and time to exercise every day, and keep this going for the whole year;
Feel we are doing our very best every day
Eat right – being busy is no excuse
Turn our daily routines into healthy habits

Our challenge is in determining how we devote more time to those pursuits that hold value for us and less time and energy to those that might be less important. This does not mean doing less work, but it may mean enhancing our goal setting and time management skills. How also do we find support for making this deliberate choice from our families, friends and colleagues.

The choice is always ours to make – what are we going to do with our own precious resources- our time, money, energy and passion. What do we have to do to ensure our own health in our creative, relational and physical worlds. How do we re-energise and inspire ourselves? How do we identify what is important each day and do our actions and decisions regarding how we spend our time, reflect this? How do we model this at our schools to our staff, students and parents?

Give yourself a gift of time – to do that exercise, read to your children, take up that hobby, talk with that colleague.