If/When we leave China the lack of cheap, delicious noodles is going to be a problem.
Excuse the photo, new phone next week!
If/When we leave China the lack of cheap, delicious noodles is going to be a problem.
Excuse the photo, new phone next week!
Tim Duncan’s Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech - YouTube
“You showed up after I got drafted. You came to my island. You sat with my friends, my family. You talked with my dad. I thought that was normal. It’s not.”
Not a basketball fan and don’t really know either of these people but this quote but I liked this quote a lot.
As a parent and a teacher, how should I act and how do I want to be remembered?
When Yumo stops saying “Daddy cuddle high,” when he wants me to pick him up will a sad day indeed.
Just had my second dose.
Kids are shouting.
I’m drinking coffee, making breakfast and listening to an “I miss Emo” playlist.
It’s 7am on Saturday.
⚡️
the examined family, Courtney Martin: ‘Hard conversations don’t fix hard things.'
That was something the comedian Hasan Minhaj told me his father told him to guide him in a conflict. Sometimes, it’s important you’re right and you stand up for yourself, and you take the consequences. Other times, it’s more important to be together, and you figure out which differences or conflicts you can let slide for the sake of a relationship. We have to do both at different times, sometimes in the same conversation!
Today was pull ups, lunges and then some time on the assault bike! Was fun because Helen and I were finishing at the same-ish time so ended up racing.
Sometimes the rule is:
You don’t have to finish, but you do have to start.
And sometimes the rule is:
You don’t have to start, but if you do, you have to finish.
When building a personal habit, it might make sense to embrace the first rule. You don’t have to run all the way, every day, but you do have to get out of the house and start running.
And when making promises to a group where trust matters, the second rule definitely applies.
Ha. 5 minutes later I read this.
That’s why kids can never “take away” from our careers or “hold us back.” They can’t interrupt our work because they are our work. We are always teaching them. We are teaching them that we care. We are being there for them. We are stating our priorities.
There’s plenty of extra work I need to do but after I’ve done my normal work and family stuff the idea of picking myself up again at 9pm just isn’t happening.
Which means the work is hanging over me and making me stressed.
20 back squats Row 4K 20 back squats
I hate running but I’ll always row.
Why time for reflection is the key to teacher CPD | Tes News
The CPD puzzle: why don’t teachers keep improving?
Yesterday was lovely, kids were at school* and Lyra and I went to IKEA in the morning. Then she went out and got a few things done.
But today was the opposite.
I’ve struggled with feeling with it. And I’ve got work I need to do, and I got some done yesterday. I’m feeling like I don’t want to do it if I’m not in the right frame of mind which is a change to the way I think. It’s something I normally get stressed about, that if I’m not doing it right now then that is a problem. I know in my head I always manage to get things done but still… I didn’t do anything today in the end but am feeling like I should have!
Try again tomorrow?
*Yeah, in China you get 3 days off but only one is free so you have to work two Saturdays to pay it off.
If you want kids who listen to you, you have to strive to be worthy of being listened to. If you want kids that spend time with you, be someone they want to spend time with.
Added most of the newsletters I wasn’t reading to my rss. Thanks @dancohen for the suggestion!
I think we’ve fetishized the idea that your job should be your passion. It’s ok for your job to just be a job.
From my perspective, a calling isn’t a job or an industry. It’s an activity or an impact. When you can identify your calling in these terms, you can start to imagine many ways for it to exist in your life.
Mads Mikkelsen, In Conversation
My approach to what I do in my job — and it might even be the approach to my life — is that everything I do is the most important thing I do. Whether it’s a play or the next film. It is the most important thing. I know it’s not going to be the most important thing, and it might not be close to being the best, but I have to make it the most important thing. That means I will be ambitious with my job and not with my career. That’s a very big difference, because if I’m ambitious with my career, everything I do now is just stepping-stones leading to something — a goal I might never reach, and so everything will be disappointing. But if I make everything important, then eventually it will become a career. Big or small, we don’t know. But at least everything was important.
Stopping to return a football that went over the fence.
“Football is life!”
Cal Newport, Study Hacks: The Neuroscience of Busyness
There was a time, not that long ago, when the standard response to the query, “How are you?”, was an innocuous “fine”; today, it’s rare to encounter someone who doesn’t instead respond with a weary “busy.”
Does the wiring of our brains play a role in this reality?
And
Like the subjects in the experiments reported in this recent paper, however, the best solution to these problems might often instead be to do less.
Less?!
Also, I don’t subscribe to see the responses but this question made me think:
What work would you do if your industry was required to treat you with respect?
Reasons to be Cheerful: When Italians Abandoned This Village, Refugees Brought It Back to Life
I don’t ‘call’ people, except my Mum.
I can’t even imagine calling/Facetiming the people I consider closest to me.
Living in another country, another time zone, even with COVID.
I still struggle with it.
That said, I appreciated calling Mum this evening.
We say some things.