Category: self-care

• One Crisis, Three Questions

  

  Going into Week 8 of confinement, how’s the morale? I don’t know for you, but for me it’s been such a roller-coaster of emotions! Sometimes, I feel short-tempered and irritable (especially when watching the news or reading other people’s reactions to government decisions). Then I swing to frustration at not being able to go running…

  Claire Maria Ford

  May 1, 2020

  confinement, covid19, growth mindset, new world, personal development, self-care, teaching, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  celebrations, confinement, learning, mental health, online teaching, pema chodron, quanrantine, reflections, teachers, teaching; esl, transitions

• Clarity in confinement?

  

  It’s important to say things as they are. Love is the opposite of avoidance. And so, it is important to be able to say things as they are, beginning with our fears. (Boris Sirbey) I read that piece of wisdom this morning in a LinkedIn article entitled Le hamster épris de ciel bleu (The Hamster…

  Claire Maria Ford

  April 10, 2020

  Boris Sirbey, connecting, covid19, Culture, esl, failure, family, family life, goal-setting, growth, growth mindset, initiative, leadership, Mindfulness, motivation, personal development, progress, quarantine, responsibility, self-care, stress management, teaching, workplace wellbeing

  brené brown

• Opportunity, or just an opening?

  

  There’s a difference between an opportunity and an opening. While pondering a change of employment lately, I realized these three things: An opportunity pushes you to grow. An opening just lets you continue being as you are. An opportunity pushes you to do new things. An opening just lets you continue doing the same-old tasks…

  Claire Maria Ford

  January 17, 2020

  dreams, employee engagement, goal-setting, growth, growth mindset, human resources, initiative, personal development, progress, school, self-care, workplace wellbeing