How do any of us get so complacent about our own well being?? I know full well that I must take care of myself in order to be there and take care of others YET………….. 

I injured myself shoveling several months ago and have finally sought physical therapy to get back to “normal”. How did I let my injured normal become my new normal? When did that happen? Why did that happen?

I have been favoring one side of my body and now need re-training to get back to “normal”. I cannot help but think about how often we get “tricked” into these norms which do not NEED to be normal at all! To avoid pain I did something new that injured me further. 

In education how often are we accepting the “way it’s always done” losing our voices and perhaps even our normal if we are being asked to act in ways that are not comfortable to us.

Do we become complacent and do things a “new” way to avoid the pain of being uncomfortable? Are we sometimes blinded by someone else’s ambition, drive or curriculum demands that we at heart do not believe?

This week I will watch for my inaction due to discomfort. How are we injuring ourselves, colleagues and the CHILDREN we work with by acting complacent when we ‘know” better. Eye opening…………… 

What is it that you “know better” than to do yet you still do it?