Response to questions: Heavy load
I tend or used to be a perfectionist at heart. Without getting very personal, I’ll just say recent events have tossed me into a sort of dust devil. What I’ve learned in the process is to do the best you can with the time and resources available at that particular time. On the occasion when the end results are less than ideal, learn what I so I can do better next, let the frustration go, and move forward. As mentioned in the reading there’s really nothing that can be done to change the past.
The good news is that difficult times require us to do more and give more in the way resistance builds muscle or iron sharpens iron. In the classroom, my difficulties serve as reminders and as points of reference and sources of compassion when my students or other staff members are struggling. I become more attentive. I look, ask, listen, and console.
Great observations. Perfection vs. having high standards, sooner or later you have to do with less, but not give up or lose heart.
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