You don’t owe anyone a perfect performance as a parent, educator, or person.
Exhale. Long, slow, complete.
The stress you feel is not always yours. It’s pressure from outside introjected inside.
You have the same right as anyone else to:
- Take a risk
- Try a thing
- Make a mistake
- Change your mind
- Do something else
- Disappoint someone
- Forget to follow through
- Lose your way
- Overthink
- Worry
- Have dreams and wishes
- Revise a belief
- Speak up
- Say no
- Say I don’t know
You’re learning how to be an educator, parent, and adult all at once. Of course you don’t know what you’re doing yet.
You’ll make mistakes, you’ll stumble on genius, you’ll be bored, you’ll be amazed.
All of it counts.
