📖Turn the Page📖Calling All Teachers! A friend of mine is looking for 5 teachers to help test an EdTech App in exchange for a $100 amazon gift card. If you’re interested, read to the bottom where all the info will be! Happy New Year Reader! I usually send emails in the morning on Fridays, but…it’s a been a week. Not quite the “1st week of January,” I had in mind, but then: does that EVER HAPPEN? I digress. I’m really happy to be back in your inbox and to be talking about something important today. So… Before you read the rest of this, I want you to try something small. Step 1: Open a blank note and finish this sentence—quickly, without overthinking it: “What do I already know I want next but haven’t taken action on yet?” 📋 Not the thing your parents would tell you to want 🛠️ Not even the most practical option. 🌱 Just the one that keeps coming back. Maybe it’s like the quiet drip of a leaky faucet. Maybe it’s like a roaring river, carving a path through all your thoughts in a way you can’t ignore.
Either way, if you wrote something down, you’re already further than you think. More often than not, the issue isn’t uncertainty—it’s that without an intentional first step, that knowing never turns into movement. I’ve been thinking a lot about this season I often find myself in—the quiet space between reflection and real movement. The part where you’re not confused anymore… but you’re not quite in motion either. This is usually where people get stuck. Not because they don’t care. Not because they aren’t capable. But because sometimes without real, tangible steps to take, nothing gets chosen. We freeze amidst the possible direction we could go in. So we wait. We gather more ideas. (teachers love to research options 😂) We tell ourselves we’ll start when it feels clearer or calmer. But momentum doesn’t come from waiting for certainty. It comes from choosing one direction, taking one step, and letting clarity catch up. Here’s the second step (and this is the only other thing I want you to do): Step 2: Look back at how you answered the first question. Then ask yourself, “What would it look like to take this seriously for the next two weeks?” Not forever. Not perfectly. Just seriously enough to see what happens. To see if inside you shifts. —It might be setting aside 15 minutes to do a brain dump every day to help you clear out what you actually want and don’t want. —It might be using that 15 minutes to instead partner with AI and get some intel on where your skills, your strengths and your passions collide. —It might emailing that one person and asking if they are willing to talk something through with you. This is how change actually starts—through small, intentional containers that make movement possible. I’ll be sharing more practices like this—simple, grounded ways to take step after small step without burning everything down or doing it alone. For now, notice what shifts when you stop asking “What should I do?” and start asking, “What am I willing to commit to next?” Your captain on the raging river, 💫 Meredith
ps As promised, below is all the info from my friend Tina on testing a fantastic new edtech app: Hi friends, The timeline for this project is as follows: |
