Tip Tuesday and Work with Me Wednesday in ONE!

Oops! I totally forgot to leave myself some time yesterday to write! Sorry about that! So today, I will be combining yesterday and today to make up for that..

Tip Tuesday and Work with me Wednesday: 

Yesterday was moving day for me. And by moving day, I mean I had to move classrooms. I thought I was going to have to go at alone but guess what? Sweet Dimas decided to go with me and help! Such a sweetie, he is. 💝 It totally cut my moving time by a huge amount of time, probably hours. Anyway, I was freaking out about how much I had to move, but most of it was junk that had just accumulated over the 3 years I had been in that room. I ended up throwing a lot of paper away and some stuff that had just not been used. That's what I really need to do when I start putting my new room together. Throw it out. If it doesn't give me joy or it's not immediately useful, THROW IT OUT. Start fresh. 

Same thing goes for house cleaning and organization. I'm by no means an organized person, hence my past story on IG about losing a charging cord for my personal laptop, and then finding it the same day that I received the new one, which I knew that was exactly what was going to happen. If I were more organized, I'd have a specific place for all cords. But that's just not me. Yes, I need to come up with a better system but I'm just not super structured when it comes to organization.

Ugh...

Change of thought for today. I was going to babble on about organization and how much I lack at that skill and give you organization tips but I'm not that person who can give sound advice on organizing.. LOL! But the tip I DO want to give kind of goes along with organization in your life and with the work that I do every day (professionally and personally), and not with just the actual material things. I'm talking about people in our lives. Remember when I said that if it doesn't give you joy, THROW IT OUT? That's kind of what we have to do with people in our lives who don't give us joy. Right now, I'm trying to find "my tribe". I need people who I can turn to in certain times of need and in times of accountability. I'm working on it. But in this process, I've been coming across people who I thought might fit my tribe characteristics but turns out they don't. And that's okay! It's totally okay! 

Sometimes these discoveries are a little more obvious than others. Sometimes these people cause too much drama. I'm an adult. I work with teenage drama as a teacher 9 months out of the year--do I need ADULTS to cause MORE drama in my life? HELL NO. Do I need to lose sleep over some petty issues or comments? No. Do they bother me sometimes? Yes. I'm human. Sometimes people say really hurtful things and I might have a good cry. But that's when I say or somebody might say to me, "Eff them. You don't need to entertain that. Let them go." So that's what I do. These negative Nancy-type people are not a part of my tribe, and I do not need to interact with them or at least, I need to limit the types of interaction I do with them. Negative energy brings you down. Way down. Do you ever notice when you cancel your plans because you just feel too stressed to go through with them and suddenly, you feel so much lighter? Like a sudden calm comes over you and you're not sure why? That's because you got rid of something that wasn't giving you joy. That's your subconscious mind breathing a sigh of relief. It's okay to say no. It's okay to fill your cup with other positive vibes and activities. 

You do you, Boo. You deserve to be nothing but happy! Find people who celebrate you.