How many points for discussion, can you jot down in pieces about your weekend?
It is Monday morning, the start of the week, and that means, going to work. Now it is important to note here, that work means different things to different people, so I am not going to generalise that word “work”. What I am going to say is that taking time out between weeks is a must for mental and emotional well being. And that might also look different for everyone. Engagement with yourself is a must for good mental health.
Planning
Just like a Teacher needs to plan every single detail of a curriculum, starting with the first lesson, so to, is planning your weekend, so that you feel that you have had a weekend. This mind fullness is for the sake of yourself and for your mental health. And this may mean, leaving work where it is – at work. Phone calls, people to see and speak too, and places to go to, need to be planned for so that attention can be given to these tasks, during the week, for accomplishment and for acceleration of being accomplished and done, prior to going into the next week. You see, when a Teacher plans, the planning has to be done, for the amount of weeks that there are with each term. And that is up to 4 terms with up to 10 weeks of teaching and learning to happen.
Picture (and visualise)
Can you do that? Picture and visualise?. The when, where, how and why of what you will do, for your “down time”. Your ability to do this on a Sunday before the next Sunday, can be a set as a series of scheduled tasks you set yourself to complete before this time comes along. And this can be achieved, whether you work on your own terms (easier if you do) or whether you work for someone else (especially important, if you do).
Pursue
So, about the visualising. The picture above, as you can see, is of a gate. This gate is in a place in Indonesia. And, from what I was told, as to why I took the picture, because I thought it would be perfect, to use for my work, is through the gate you may be able to see, and on the other side of what you can see in the picture, is a garden. You see, what I learned, from being there a few years ago, the locals engage in a lot of worshipping, on just about every day of the week. The locals go in, through the gate, and into the garden and worship. This, I thought would be perfect to talk about when it comes to gaining knowledge and then being able “through the pursuit of a goal”, behind the gate through talking about it. As in “whats yours”?
Pleased
Mental health is now becoming a talking point globally, through everyone, everywhere. For me, this comes down to how you feel, what that looks like, can you describe it? And can you engage in something that helps to you evolve as a person who is pleased what they pursued? A past time, if you will. A place or people to see – to SPEAK to, and discuss what you are up to or what you have done?
To conclude:
Points, for discussion. Remind yourself of any fun that you had leading into and over the weekend. Stay with all of the feelings, whatever they may be about the what you did, who with? When. why and how. And you capture all of this good stuff, by jotting it down, in pieces, for the days when your mental health, is not so healthy.