I had an epiphany tonight. After a long day of wrapping up a book fair complete with a migraine followed by taking care of things for my family, I was thinking about how much I miss writing, and how much I need to write that blog post I've been excited to write that will go in depth about my meetings with various departments in the makerspace including what I prepared for them, what worked and what didn't, how it went, etc. It would be EPIC! It would include pictures and links to documents I created as examples! But...I haven't had time to write a lengthy, detailed blog post. So I haven't written in a bit, because I had it set it my mind that that had to be the next thing I wrote. So I waited. But no time has come for me to write such a thorough post as the one I envisioned.
Then it occurred to me, not all blog posts have to be lengthy or detailed. Save that epic blog post I'm passionate about and dreaming up in the back of my head for when I have time. Why not write about other things in the meantime? I've done this other times or in other situations. For example, I have found myself waiting to pitch an idea to others until it's 100% complete or waiting to start a project until I know I'll have time to finish it. Why? I need to work on breaking this cycle. Sometimes educators are too perfectionistic. We set the bar so high for ourselves. Which is great. But sometimes it's too high, and we need to come back down to reality for a minute.
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