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<\/a>\nIt\u2019s the moment you realize the fall term is around the corner, and you\u2019re still staring at a summer to-do list that has very few things checked off. So anxiety starts to rise a little and you immediately start beating yourself up for all the things you didn\u2019t get accomplished. You start the cycle of \u201cwhere did the summer go?\u201d and \u201cwhat exactly did I do with my time?\u201d<\/p>\n
Think of this post as your permission slip. Yup, just like you were back in school.<\/p>\n
Permission is totally granted to give yourself a break. I bet if you looked at what you did accomplish this summer you would be quite surprised. And don\u2019t minimize the down time, the vacations, the extra time spent with family and friends, or the time you did simply nothing. All of those are key to your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been writing a piece that uses the idea of orientation as a way to reorient how we think about things. As a one-time geographer and a long-time lover of maps, I like this orientation metaphor because it helps us to situate ourselves, it gives us a direction, but at the same time, it has the potential to be flexible so that we can reorient when necessary.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s my suggestion to each of us who starts down the path of rebuking ourselves over what we didn\u2019t get done. Reorient to what we did get done, and also consider how to maintain these more positive behaviors.<\/p>\n
Think about the last time you ended a day and the first thought wasn\u2019t <\/strong>about all the stuff you didn\u2019t do. My point is that we spend a lot of time and energy on the negative things. With a slightly different orientation, we can move from beating ourselves up to congratulating ourselves\u2014and each other\u2014on what we are getting done.<\/p>\n Here are three easy things that may help you reorient yourself and your thinking and your productivity: Admittedly, I am the world\u2019s worst at some of this\u2014probably why I switched from you and our and we so much in this post. But one of my dearest friends told me this summer that I had to learn to be kinder to myself. He\u2019s right.<\/p>\n It was at that moment that I mostly stopped beating myself up over things. So when I look at the list of things I wanted to get done this summer, I find I stop myself. Instead, I am feeling kind of good about what I did get accomplished.<\/p>\n I encourage you to do the same.<\/p>\n We all need to celebrate our accomplishments\u2014big and small\u2014a little more.<\/p>\n And this is a big giant step to being kinder to ourselves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 12 August 2016 by Lisa Meloncon This is one of those times of the year where panic and anxiety sets in a little (or a lot). Panic. Anxiety, you ask? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenintechcomm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n\n