It’s 2:00 am and my heart is racing. That sounds familiar. I don’t recall my heart racing but I have had many sleepless nights because of the amount of work I felt I needed to get done. Sometimes it feels as if there's not enough minutes in the day. I am going to begin to focus on the five thoughts that came from school leaders that successfully sleep through the night. Practice compartmentalizing, prioritize, make a list of the things I do to relax, make a practice of listing all of the things that go well each day, and continue to develop a network of colleagues, family, and friends that I trust. Prioritizing will be the most difficult for me. I am the type of person that wants to get everything done right away. I don’t like to keep people waiting. My goal is to use the example from the text, the three drawer strategy. One drawer for the things that need immediate attention, one drawer for things to complete over a period of time, and one drawer I can use to explore new ideas and increase my general knowledge.
I totally agree with you. I think the advice given by the author about prioritizing is right on. I will too try the idea of the three drawers.
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