Struggling under the weight.
Its the end of the term again, and for me this generally means little sleep, much stress, headaches and crankiness. I love being involved, but I sometimes drive myself to exhaustion for no reason. At this point in time I am building a presentation for a twilight series conference, building a PD session for the South Coast eLearning conference, contributing to the Health Education syllabus revision and rewrite, contributing to a significant project with Griffith University that will see direct entry and study credit for Health Education students, mentoring 17 teachers at my school through their portfolio creation and dealing with the increase in student misbehaviour across my department (the honeymoon period is definitely over). On top of this I want to work with my beginning teachers to continue their development.
So how am I going to manage? I am not getting through my job / task list, I need to get some movement on the major projects. Hopefully I will feel a little more at ease after Wednesday once the presentations are completed.
But to the point of this post – stress management. Mismanagement of stress ultimately leads to poorer relationships with the people who do matter. Its important that I maintain some sort of physical activity, and appropriate nutrition. I also find that spending time with those that can make you laugh is precious in these times. But I’ve realised over the years,I am going to continue to want to get involved in projects I see as significant, therefore stress management needs tobe developed and implemented. Wish me luck!
