I was not the principal I wanted to be this week. I set out this week to be in classrooms, write notes of thanks and gratitude to you and just be of service. Then, life happened. Bella ended up coming home sick from school on Monday and stayed home on Tuesday and Wednesday. I ended up getting to school late most days this week. I was distracted and just not my best self. But, when I was driving to school this morning I decided to give myself some grace. As soon as I let myself be okay with being disappointed in my week, I felt so much better.
Later, I looked up the definition of the word grace. Merriam Webster defines grace as “a temporary exemption”. Exactly what I needed! A temporary exemption from being ELITE. I was not ELITE this week. I was not "better today that yesterday" this week. But, that’s okay. So, I challenge you to give yourself some grace when you need it. Have you noticed that we freely and easily give grace to others. We often are encouraging others to take care of themselves, take a sick day or leave school before it’s dark outside, but do we take our own advice? Grace is the answer because our exemption is temporary! We’re not saying we surrender, we’re just temporarily hanging out of the mountain of average so when we get our life back in order we can go back to being our ELITE selves! My hope for all of us is that we all have more ELITE days than not and that we give ourselves grace on those off days.
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