As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today
What can you do today to make next week easier?
Person since I was a little kid, I always got a little bit anxious on Sundays. I think back then, it was because I knew that Sunday night school started the next day, and that meant having to go through the entire week once again.
But I’ve come to realize that as adults, that doesn’t really get any better; especially when one works a traditional Monday through Friday job.
I think the number one thing that I, or any of us for that matter, due to make the next week easier is to prepare in advance. It’s funny, because this response has me thinking about the Boy Scout motto “be prepared”. I spent a few years as a Boy Scout myself, and I remember reading once that somebody asked Boy Scout founder, Lord Robert Baden Powell what scouts should be prepared for. His response was “for an old thing“.
For some people, planning for the week ahead means meal planning. Some people will actually plan or even cook multiple meals for the week. Because just as Forrest Gump once said “it’s one less thing”. For some of us it just means planning a schedule and coordinating your week: “I will do this Monday, I will do that Tuesday”.
In my case, as a teacher, planning for the week ahead should be making lesson plans. No one at least what I’m going to teach or what I want to cover for the coming week. Of course, it would probably help me to be sure that I have laundry done before the week begins. I wouldn’t mind cleaning up around my house a little bit today as well. Even after I end up doing a little house cleaning, I do so so that I can basically mess up the house again in the coming week.
The old man once told me “you’re better off getting a clean car dirty than getting a dirty car even dirtier”. He gave me this advice one day when I was debating whether or not to get my car washed. But I’m realizing now that it’s advice that applies not just to cars.
Things happen. Life gets in the way of the best lead of plans, and sometimes when he has to improvise. But it’s a lot easier to improvise in that situation if one at least has a plan to start with. Improvisation should be a fallback, not the plan itself.
For me, I guess what I could do to make this week easier is to have some rough lesson plans for my students. And be sure that I clear time for whatever obligations I have this week. I’m supposed to see Lomax on Monday. Veronica and I are already talking about seeing each other again on Wednesday. I pick up kid 2 Friday night. To meet this already sounds like the start of a plan.
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