Life-Fit #Culturize
After a lot of thought at the start of this calendar year, I arrived at my word of the year being "balance". Many of my posts have talked about my pursuit of finding this both in my professional and personal life. Recently, about a half-hour ago to be exact, I finished reading Culturize by Jimmy Casas, who is an educational leader and consultant I have long admired. In his book, he discussed the idea that we should be seeking to be "life-fit" as opposed to finding balance. His rationale was that he thought balance had a negative connontation to it, where-as life-fit challenged us to accept our current realities and everyone's unique situations at different points in their lives. He provided several examples of this that really resonated with me as I reflected on the last several weeks and months of the school year that were a true whirlwind in the way that only 2020 could be explained (a year certainly not like any other). Some of the the examples he pro...