Showing posts with label Focus on the Self. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Focus on the Self. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Locked down and mind overwhelmed

Thought I'd just jump on here briefly before signing off for the night.

We are week 3 in the COVID 19 lockdown in NZ. I was contented to have the first 2 weeks a home. Finally a school holidays for me - the first since September 2019. To Stop and refuel my body with down time was great.

Once it was officially week 2 of lockdown I started to switch back into work mode and with that came the screaming urge to soak in all I can about my new lifestyle choice in ECE. Fuelled with the endless opportunities to engage in free webinars (thanks to all the providers offering these) I haven't stopped absorbing information for about 7 day now at my computer for about 8 hours a day - my mind is spinning.


  • Reading about leadership styles and motivating people in an ebook
  • hitting a few webinars at the Conscious Collective
  • signing up to transforming behaviour online conference
  • watching facebook live play based learning at home with Little Kiwis Nature Play
  • researching insurance claims and how to work out eligibility for wage subsidies
  • A great little quick read article on teachers intervening in play - will write more on this as follow up to last post.
  • Educa seminars on anything from Rituals to Learning stories and plenty more of interest
  • Researching philosophy and how to design one.

The list goes on - no wonder my head is overwhelmed. 
It is time to sit down and pick a focus, to stop trying to know everything right now and let some knowledge unfold at a later date. To believe and to trust that my team have knowledge, I don't have to hold the knowledge of everything.
So where will my focus be... 
What is important in the next week the next month, the aprez lockdown....