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260. A 7-Day Teacher Decompression Plan for First Week of Summer · Teacher Approved: Elementary Teacher Tips & Strategies

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  Heidi: This is episode 260 of Teacher Approved.
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  You're listening to Teacher Approved, the podcast helping
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  educators elevate what matters and simplify the rest. I'm
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  Heidi.
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  Emily: And I'm Emily. We're the creators behind Second Story
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  Window, where we give research-based and
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  teacher-approved strategies that make teaching less stressful and
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  more effective. You can check out the show notes and resources
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  from each episode at secondstorywindow.net.
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  Heidi: We're so glad you're tuning in today. Let's get to
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  the show.
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  Emily: Hey there, thanks for joining us today. In today's
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  episode, we are talking about the first week of summer and how
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  to actually decompress, plus we've got a teacher-approved tip
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  for soaking up the full sensory experience of summer.
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  Heidi: But first, let's start with a try it tomorrow, where we
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  share a quick one that you can try in your classroom right
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  away. Emily, what is our suggestion this week?
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  Emily: This week, we've got a couch task for you. You know we
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  love a couch task. Spend five minutes decluttering your
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  teaching Pinterest boards, or your saved TikToks, or those
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  Instagram posts that you've been hoarding all year. Just go
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  through and delete the ideas that now you realize you are
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  never actually going to use, and that way you can easily find the
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  good ideas when you need them.
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  Heidi: Right. This is such an important step if you're going
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  to save ideas, because you got to look for that one anchor
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  chart idea, and then you have to scroll through 400 activities
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  that seem awesome, but you know you, you're never actually going
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  to use these. So just trim the dead weight, keep what's
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  exciting but still feels reasonable, and then just delete
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  what isn't serving you anymore. It makes your saved content way
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  more useful.
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  Emily: Plus, it is also weirdly satisfying, because it's like
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  cleaning out your purse. You don't realize how much clutter
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  you're carrying around until you take some of it out, and then
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  when you do, it's like such a big win.
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  Heidi: Yes, it's like a whole new system.
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  Emily: Yes.
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  really helps.
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  Okay, everyone, happy June 1. We know some of you lucky souls are
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  starting your second, or maybe your third week of summer break.
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  Emily: But some of you still have three or more weeks to the
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  finish line.
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  Heidi: Oh, that's rough.
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  Emily: But they will still be at the beach when the early out
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  crowd is heading back in July, so it all kind of evens out.
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  Heidi: Yeah, I guess there's trade offs, but whether you are
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  in those first golden days of break or your golden days are
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  still just a distant bright spot on the calendar, summer is a
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  gift.
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  Emily: The problem with this gift, though, is that it doesn't
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  come with any assembly instructions.
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  Heidi: Yeah, you have been counting down for months, you've
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  been telling yourself, if I can just make it to summer,
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  everything will be fine. And then summer arrives, and you
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  wake up on day one, and you have absolutely no idea what to do
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  with yourself.
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  Emily: So you do what any rational person would do, and
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  you scroll your phone for a while, maybe you take a nap, you
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  feel weirdly unsettled about something you can't quite name,
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  and you wonder if you should be doing something more.
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  Heidi: Or maybe you go the complete other direction. You
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  decide that since you finally have time, you're going to clean
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  out the garage, repaint the bathroom, and start lesson
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  planning for next year. By day four, you're exhausted, your
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  house is half torn apart, and you still haven't done a single
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  thing that feels like summer.
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  Emily: Yeah, those are the two failure modes we're calling them
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  guilty rest and the productivity trap, and it's easy to fall into
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  one or the other.
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  Heidi: Or both. Honestly, both. You start with guilty rest, and
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  then you panic about wasting your summer, and you swing hard
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  into the productivity trap, and then you crash again. It's a
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  whole cycle.
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  Emily: Yeah, we know that cycle well. When we were both still
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  teaching, we had plenty of summers where we came home from
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  the last day of school, and collapsed on the couch for, you
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  know, two weeks, and not in a restful way. In the I literally
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  cannot make a decision about what to do with myself way, and
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  you just kind of become a vegetable on the couch.
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  Heidi: Yes, become part of the couch.
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  Emily: Yep.
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  Heidi: It was a combination of being so depleted that we
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  couldn't function and not knowing what to do that was
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  productive, but still gentle. So we just defaulted to zoning out
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  until we could stand the thought of starting to think about the
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  next school year.
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  Emily: And then we dove in with fire. We had a whole system
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  where we spent mornings working in Heidi's room, and then
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  switched to my room after lunch, because I had a swamp cooler on
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  my room, and Heidi had no air conditioner.
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  Heidi: Yeah, and calling it a cooler is a stretch. The word
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  cool. Of course, you know, the front office had AC, but the
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  rest of the building was just, we're just at the mercy of that
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  humidifying swamp cooler.
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  Emily: I can feel the stickiness now.
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  Heidi: Yeah.
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  Emily: Don't miss that. But no matter your default approach to
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  summer, having a plan helps, so we are offering a third option
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  today. No guilty rest, no productive overhaul. We're going
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  to do something in between.
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  Heidi: Now, before you feel any pressure set in, let us reassure
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  you that this is not about getting stuff done. To borrow
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  one of Phoebe's great quotes from Friends, this isn't a plan,
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  this isn't even a pluh, it's just a way to give the first
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  week of summer some intentional handholds, so you don't lose it
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  to drift or guilt.
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  Emily: And if you're already on your break, that's fine, just
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  start where you are, we are totally flexible here.
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  Heidi: And if you've got a while to go to your break, just save
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  this for later, it will come in handy.
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  Okay, day one of your break, the prompt is to close in style.
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  Your nervous system needs a signal that something has
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  actually changed. You've spent the last 180 days walking into
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  the same building and doing the same things. If you close out
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  that last day of school the exact same way you closed out
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  yesterday, your brain doesn't really clock that anything is
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  different.
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  Emily: So, let's mark the occasion. If you're low in
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  energy, do the action hero version. Drop your teacher bag
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  in the hall closet, then shut the door and walk away like
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  you're an action hero walking away from an explosion. Do not
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  look back, the bag is dead to you now.
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  Heidi: Just take out any dirty dishes first, because I know I
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  would make that mistake.
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  Emily: Yeah, don't leave your lunchbox in there, that'll be
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  sad.
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  Heidi: Yeah, please avoid that. But if you really want to
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  celebrate your moment of freedom, you could even turn on
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  an epic song as your personal soundtrack. I checked, and I
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  found a playlist on Spotify called Songs to Walk Away from
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  an Explosion in Slow Motion, and I am partial to Seven Nation
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  Army, but I think this playlist has convinced me to try some
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  Fleetwood Mac. It kind of has a good pep to it.
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  Emily: Okay, well, of course, there is a playlist. I love it.
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  So, I guess we'll link to that in the show notes, but do be
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  aware that some of the songs are not kid-friendly, so be careful
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  if your epic moment will have an audience. Maybe put your
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  headphones in. This is just for you.
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  Heidi: And if you have some energy left after your dramatic
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  walk away, round up some teacher friends, hit the pool, or go out
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  to dinner, whatever marking the occasion looks like to you.
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  Emily: But you really don't have to do anything big. It just has
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  to feel like a signal. The point is to put a period on the year,
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  to end the day differently than every other day has ended for
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  the last nine months.
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  Heidi: And that's our whole goal for day one. On day two, it's
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  time to write your I can finally list.
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  Emily: I love this, because making a list makes me feel like
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  I'm doing something productive, but this list, the stakes could
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  not be lower on this list. You sit down and you make a list of
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  everything you can do now. You can finally drink your coffee
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  while it's still hot. You can finally go to the bathroom
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  whenever you want to. You can finally meet a friend for lunch
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  on a Tuesday.
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  Heidi: And it's okay if they sound really small. That's the
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  point. The list isn't supposed to be impressive. It's just
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  supposed to name all of the tiny things that you have been
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  deferring for months, because when you put them on paper, you
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  realize how many of them there are, and that makes that shift
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  from school year mode to summer mode feel real.
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  Emily: And if you're in the teacher-approved club this
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  month, we have a printable I can finally list waiting for you in
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  your member resources as part of our tired teacher summer
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  planner. So, if writing it out on a fresh piece of paper feels
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  nicer than scrolling it on the back of an envelope, we got you.
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  We will have the link in the show notes if you want to check
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  it out in the club.
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  Heidi: Now, day three's task is to close the loops, and this one
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  sounds slightly less fun, but stick with us, because it pays
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  off.
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  Emily: This is when you do a brain dump of every open school
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  task that's floating around in your head. The thing you forgot
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  to email the office about, the kid you wanted to follow up
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  with, the supplies you need to reorder for next year. Just get
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  it out of your brain and onto paper.
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  Heidi: We're calling this the loose ends list, and you don't
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  have to do any of it. You just have to decide when you're going
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  to deal with it. Urgent things can go in the do now column,
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  less urgent stuff goes in the do later column, and then anything
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  you decide that really isn't that important can go in the let
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  go column.
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  Emily: The reason this matters is that those open loops are
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  what nag at you while you're trying to relax. Your brain
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  keeps pulling them up, like, hey, remember this, hey, what
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  about this one? Once they have a home, your brain can let them
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  rest. It is a small step, but it makes a huge difference in how
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  restful the rest of summer feels.
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  Heidi: And club members, we have a sortable list for this in your
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  member resources too. It's in the same place as the I can
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  finally list.
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  Emily: Day four's task is to reconnect with fun, plan
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  something fun for this day, whatever fun means to you.
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  Heidi: If that seems like a tough ask, because you have
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  forgotten what fun feels like, that's okay. Pick something that
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  used to be fun, or something that sounds fun in theory, and
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  try it. Maybe that's rounding up friends for a hike, or maybe an
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  afternoon of jigsaw puzzling with snacks is more your speed.
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  Whatever is enjoyable for you is the right answer.
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  Emily: Jigsaw puzzling is definitely more my speed than
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  hiking, but just remember, fun is not a luxury, it's actually
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  how you recover. So, you're not being self-indulgent by planning
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  a fun day, you're helping your system recuperate after being in
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  high gear for so many months.
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  Heidi: On day five, it's time for a creative nudge. This is
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  about waking up the parts of your brain that get turned off
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  during the school year. When you're teaching, you are
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  constantly managing logistics and putting out fires. The
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  creative, playful parts of your brain don't get a lot of air
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  time, so they get a little rusty.
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  Emily: Let's turn one of those channels back on. Is there an
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  old hobby you keep meaning to get back to, or a new thing
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  you've been curious about? Maybe you want to pull out the
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  watercolors you bought three years ago, try that recipe
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  you've been saving, or buy a fresh notebook and just doodle
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  in it.
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  Heidi: And again, this is not supposed to be ambitious. If you
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  spend an hour doing it and decide it's not for you, that is
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  fine. The point is the trying, not the outcome.
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  Emily: Okay. Day six, and it's our favorite. Your very
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  important job for this day is to give yourself one indulgence.
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  Pick something that you would normally feel guilty for
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  enjoying, and lean all the way in.
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  Heidi: If you're not sure where to start, you can try borrowing
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  a tradition from Iceland and plan an Isbiltur. I think that's
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  how you say it, and that is an ice cream road trip. I love that
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  they have a culture around this. Pick the best ice cream shops
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  within driving distance and visit one, or you know, go big,
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  hit three of them in one afternoon, but if you're gonna
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  do that, maybe just skip the double scoops.
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  Emily: Yeah, I would need to remember the lactaid.
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  Heidi: Oh, definitely.
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  Emily: Or spend the whole day catching up on The Real
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  Housewives in your pajamas, maybe with a charcuterie board.
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  Heidi: Or read a romance novel cover to cover, or stay up way
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  too late watching movies, or get a really nice coffee and drive
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  around with the music up.
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  Emily: And here's why this matters. The thing that makes
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  most of these activities not feel restful is the guilt. You
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  watch four hours of TV, and you feel terrible because you should
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  have been doing something productive. You eat the ice
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  cream, and you feel bad about it later.
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  Heidi: But making a planned exception to your normal
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  standards just takes the guilt off the table. If you wake up on
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  day six and you've already decided today, I have permission
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  to enjoy this thing I love, no judgment allowed, it transforms
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  the experience. The same activity that would have left
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  you feeling gross now feels restorative.
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  Emily: Okay, we've made it to the end of our first week. It's
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  day seven, and today's task is to peek ahead at the rest of the
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  summer and start thinking about what you want to get out of it.
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  Heidi: But we're not going to talk about making a bucket list.
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  Instead, we are going to make a joy list. Dee Michelle Perry
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  posted about this on Instagram, and we think she nailed it. So
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  I'm just going to read what she said. "Bucket lists can start to
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  feel like to do lists, and I don't need any more to do lists.
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  They can be overly aspirational too. I want my seasons to be
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  about where my attention is placed, not what I have
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  achieved. Social media comparisonitis is a real thing.
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  That's why I'm creating a monthly joy list that's
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  accessible, adaptable, affordable, and creates
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  anticipation for things to look forward to each month."
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  Emily: Yes, and that's the goal, right? Bucket lists, man, they
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  can turn into to-do lists, and then we feel like we failed if
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  we didn't check off enough of them by Labor Day, which is why
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  I always refuse to make a summer bucket list with my kids,
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  because I just know it will hang over me all summer, but a joy
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  list is different.
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  Heidi: Yeah, a joy list is, what would I love to pay attention to
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  this summer, not, what would I love to accomplish. Just think
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  about the things you want to notice and do, and taste, and
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  spend time on.
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  Emily: And those four words from her post are so useful:
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  accessible, adaptable, affordable, and creates
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  anticipation. Your summer doesn't have to look like the
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  summer you see online.
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  Heidi: Yeah, there's no summer police. You're not failing if
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  you don't go on a trip or host a backyard party or do whatever
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  else the algorithm is currently telling you summer's supposed to
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  be. Make the right summer for you.
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  Emily: And we're going to be coming back to this idea of
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  designing your summer in our next few episodes, so stay tuned
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  for that. But first, let's recap our summer decompression plan.
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  Day one, close in style. Day two, write your I can finally
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  list. Day three, close the loops. Day four, reconnect with
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  fun. Day five, revisit creativity. Day six, do one
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  indulgent thing, and day seven, peek ahead and make a joylist.
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  Heidi: You don't have to do these in order, and you don't
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  have to do all of them. If you are already into summer break,
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  start with whatever makes the most sense for where you are.
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  Emily: And if you still have a few weeks until the end, use
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  this episode to get your wheels turning. What do you want the
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  start of your break to look like? Give yourself something to
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  look forward to as you calm overhyper children and inventory
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  all your cupboards.
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  Heidi: If this idea resonates with you, you might already be
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  thinking about how to bring more intention to every season, not
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  just summer. And that's the heart of our upcoming book,
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  Structure and Spark. It's the framework for letting each
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  season of the school year work for you, not against you. And
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  it's available for pre-order now. The link is in the show
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  notes, if you want to take a look.
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  Emily: Now for our teacher-approved tip of the
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  week, where we share an actionable tip to help you
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  elevate what matters and simplify the rest. This week's
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  teacher-approved tip is to make a summer sensorium. Tell us
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  about it, Heidi.
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  Heidi: Well, we have talked about this before, back in
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  episodes 134 and 199. But since it happens to be summer again,
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  how is it summer again? I'm so confused, but it is summer, says
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  the calendar and the weather outside, and my allergies, but
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  that makes this the perfect time to revisit this idea. So, a
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  quick refresher on what a sensorium is. Your sensorium is
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  your different sensory perceptions taken as a whole. So
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  your brain takes the inputs from each of your senses and
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  assembles them into your perceived experiences of a
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  moment, or you know, a day, or the whole season. So, if you
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  want a summer that actually feels like summer and not just
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  three months that happened, you have to intentionally include
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  the sensory inputs that make it feel that way.
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  Emily: And that's actually a really fun exercise, because you
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  just need to take a minute to think about your favorite summer
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  sights and sounds and textures, tastes and smells, then decide
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  how to include them in your plans.
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  Heidi: Yeah, think about how enriched you'll feel after a
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  summer of sweet, drippy watermelon and chlorine-scented
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  kids and twinkling fireflies and backyard dance parties and
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  walking in the grass.
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  Emily: This is the magic of summer, and none of those things
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  require a big expense or a big plan. They're all just sensory
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  experiences that you can fold into a regular Tuesday, and it
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  ensures that you're really savoring the full scope of what
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  the season has to offer. So, make yourself a summer
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  sensorium. You can jot it down on a piece of paper, or Teacher
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  Approved Club members, you can use the sensorium page in our
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  summer planner.
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  Heidi: All right, to wrap up the show, we are showing what we're
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  giving extra credit to. Emily, what gets your extra credit this
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  week?
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  Emily: Okay, I'm giving extra credit to a foldable silicone
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  sink topper. So, I have a broken sink. I have two sinks in my
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  bathroom, and one of them has a crack, and I need to deal with
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  that, but I haven't. So, the water is turned off to it, so
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  it's not being used for anything. And one of my
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  daughters has also decided that that's where she likes to get
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  ready, is in my bathroom, where there's room, but she was
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  dropping things in the sink all the time, and just making a
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  mess, and I was like, ah, more counter space would actually be
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  more helpful. So this sink topper, it has holes in it, but
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  they're not big enough for, like, your stuff to fall
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  through, and you just put, you just put it out over the sink,
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  and they come in a couple different sizes, depending what
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  size your sink is, and you suddenly have all this extra
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  counter space, and it even has enough room that if you wanted
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  to turn your sink on, you could.
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  Heidi: Is it flat like a tray?
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  Emily: It's flat like a tray. Yes,
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  Heidi: I've been like picturing something that you curve that
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  you like set in the sink.
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  Emily: No, no, no, no, it's flat, and it goes far enough out
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  from the side of this sink that it's sturdy enough that it can
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  go across.
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  Heidi: Oh, that's cool.
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  Emily: You know, and stay sturdy. So, I think this would
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  be helpful any place you need more counter space, especially
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  if you only have one sink and a small counter, and you need a
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  little extra space, or like in a half bathroom that just has one
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  little sink, but someone needs to get ready in there, you just
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  pop this out, and it's really easy to fold up and put it away,
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  too.
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  Heidi: Well, that's handy.
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  Emily: It is handy. What are you giving extra credit to, Heidi?
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  Heidi: Okay, well, this is much less handy, but I'm giving extra
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  credit to the trend of romanticizing your life. It's in
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  my algorithm, it's all over Instagram recently, and the idea
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  is to just take your regular life, but make it feel like an
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  event we're showing up for. And I love that thought, but you
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  know, I'm busy, and it doesn't seem super practical. But I
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  happened to see some mugs on sale at the store, and they had
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  a cute one that was shaped like a teacup and decorated with
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  tulips, so I grabbed it, and I use it to take my nighttime
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  pills, and it really is just been the most fun little change
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  up. It's like having a tea party with my melatonin. I even got,
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  oh my gosh, I even got a fancy teaspoon, so now I stir glycine
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  into my pill water, like I'm in Downton Abbey or something.
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  Emily: I love it.
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  Heidi: I could have, like, I could have got a teacup, teacup,
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  but I'm storing this in my bin with my pills, so I needed some,
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  I swear a teacup wouldn't be sturdy enough, so the mug works
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  perfectly, and it's just been just a little smile at the end
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  of the day. I love it.
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  Emily: If you're really trying to feel like you're going back
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  in time, you can pretend that you're stirring laudanum into
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  your dream.
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  Heidi: Oh, man, I would sleep so good after that. Way better than
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  glycine and melatonin. Well, put that on the list, that'll be our
• 20:12
  next extra credit.
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  Emily: No, it will not.
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  Heidi: Okay, well, DM me for that one.
• 20:19
  That is it for today's episode. Get started on your
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  decompression plan, or save this for whenever your summer
• 20:26
  actually starts.
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  Emily: And don't forget about our book, Structure and Spark,
• 20:31
  that is available for pre-order. The link for that is in the show
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  notes, and it is a great way to support us if we've ever helped
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  you with the things that we share.
• 20:41
  Heidi: We hope you enjoyed this episode of Teacher Approved. I'm
• 20:44
  Heidi.
• 20:45
  Emily: And I'm Emily. Thank you for listening. Be sure to follow
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• 20:57
  Bye for now.
• 20:58
  Emily: Bye.