The past couple of years has been plagued with "loss" in all forms. However, I am challenging you to pursue resilience and create a highlight reel. Tune in to learn more!

 

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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in about 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

 

I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and as we start the school year over here in the US, most kids are back in the classroom after being home in 2020 and 2021 during a global pandemic.  

 

The conversations the parents and administrators were having when we started school last year were similar to the same conversations we are having again this year, the 2022-2023 school year. 

 

I’ve been hearing a lot of conversations about “loss”.  Loss of the pandemic years.  Loss of mitigation in schools. And learning loss is literally in every meeting.  

 

But why aren’t we also talking about “resilience” - I think we, as a society, are doing ourselves a disservice if we’re not celebrating the resilience, both of the parents and the kids.  

 

There are real learning gaps, but this is about reframing from negative, bad and terrible -- you can create self fulfilling prophecies, to instead celebrate what we can do right now to close that gap.  

 

It’s overwhelmingly clear, the majority of us parents totally suck as teachers and were not that good at managing a home classroom.  Me included.  But we did do some things right.  And I think you could probably tick off a few things you did right.  

 

One way to find out is to ask our kids to write a highlight reel of the last year and talk about the successes.   

 

Adults, we can do this too.  We can write a highlight year that focuses our attention on some of the positives. To give proof to the universe of our own resilience.  To prove to ourselves we are resilient.  

 

I invite you to reflect on the last two years, almost three, and celebrate your resilience.  You’re here, for starters.  You decided to listen to a micro-podcast on happiness, that’s incredible.  You’ve already created one Intentional Margin® today but pressing play for 2 minutes.  I am confident the list goes on and on.  

 

I think sometimes we forget, in the business, of just how much we’ve accomplished and just how resilient we actually are.  

 

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