Hey everyone –
No sooner did I announce the French online classes than – now – I am cancelling them. It’s 100% in the interest of self-care.
It’s better for me now to rest than work, and as no one knows better than you, teaching a language online or in a classroom for that matter is not child’s play except for the learner.
My mind wants to teach this French class but hey, my inner voice that speaks in my heart, which I NEVER listened to before because I was too busy being a cool hard-working French teacher, the one that puts ME above my ambitions so that I can think more and live more in my heart and not worry so much about it all, because God is in charge not me, must be listened to.
Sorry about the false alarm. My web guy who is really terrific took that class down. Also, the next announced UCI Book 1 training has been pushed back again, this time to January. People aren’t signing up or visiting this site and I don’t think there is any awareness of the Star on the internet, at least now enough to get this site – my only internet presence – popping.
I’ve also canceled the free Wednesday coaching sessions for the same reasons mentioned above. And I would like to humbly advise you all to do challenge yourselves to relax more.
It doesn’t matter, not really, if you work your butts off. No one cares and impressed administrators only leave the school after a few years (I think the average is about four) and then you have to impress the next one (who doesn’t really care) and on and on and it gets tedious. You vets out there know exactly what I mean.
Learn to rest. Learn to not give so much. You know what I mean. So do it. God knows and we know on some important inner level that we just weren’t meant to work this hard.
Schools represent a sort of insane way to interact with life, and here in America it is out of hand. And the only way we can stop it from hurting us any more than it has already (do we ever recover?) is to become aware of our tendency to overwork and then put our minds to the great inner task of internalizing this self-care thing.
Ben