Episode 203: 4 Keys To Making Your Weeknights And Weekends More Restorative

I think that there’s a pretty good chance that this has happened to you:

You finally get to Friday afternoon. You’re exhausted. You tell yourself, “I just need the weekend to get back on traffic.”

And then somehow you get to Sunday night and think...

“Wait a minute. Where did the weekend go? And why am I still tired?”

Or maybe you leave school at 5:00 on a Tuesday…

but mentally, you never really leave.

You’re checking email while you’re eating dinner.

You’re thinking about tomorrow’s parent meeting while you’re watching TV.

You see a notification on your phone and suddenly you’re right back at school even though you’re sitting on your couch.

Here are two things that I have found to be true:

Being away from school is not the same thing as recovering from school.

You can physically leave the building without ever mentally leaving the job.