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In PHQP 0013_Navigating Change, Jeff serves up a quick yet insightful chat about tackling change—offering practical tips to turn anxiety into lasting change. Plus, a groan-worthy dad joke to cap it off. Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0013 Navigating Change Episode Notes Free To Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life The Navigating Change Transcript Welcome to Playvolition HQ Podcast, I'm Jeff Johnson. Thanks for pushing play on with the show. So this is going to be a little bit of an abbreviated episode. I've I'm kind of crunched for time this week. I let it get away from me. And I've got to head out for a in-person gig in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I'm going from 75 here at the beach to I think the high temperature on my road trip, it's going to be 30 degrees. Kind of looking forward to it. I like a snowy cold Michigan. I don't know if it's going to be any snow, but looking forward to it. I say abbreviated episode because I've only got one thing on the topic. Although whoever knows how long it's going to go. Also, behind the scenes, this is the second time I've tried to record this episode because I was about seven minutes in when I realized I hadn't pushed record. And I've been making podcasts for over 12 years. So a little bit of a a learning curve still there for me. So our one and only topic this week is navigating changes and comfortable stages. So change is a challenge. Change is something that requires you to get out of your current state and do something different, do something new. And that can be that can be really challenging because it often leaves us feeling uncomfortable and anxious. And those are those are feelings that we like to avoid. And so we often put off change for just the fact that those things, those feelings might might pop into our day. And this goes for changing things up in your classroom, whether you're you're embracing rough and tumble play, which is also the title of Mike Huber's wonderful book. Or you're going from craftivities you see on Pinterest to a real process art station. Or the example we're going to walk through today is is starting putting together a mud kitchen in your classroom. You can deal with classroom stuff like that, or it comes into play in personal stuff, too, because I do a lot of trainings on on caregiver self-care. And one challenge for caregivers who are going from not taking care of themselves at all, investing very little time in self-care to making it a daily practice is it can get very uncomfortable. It can make them anxious. They're worried about failing. They're worrying about missing the day. They're they're beating themselves up because they didn't start this earlier. And and so it can come with a lot of discomfort in starting those changes. But we want changes to last, right? So we have to learn to navigate those feelings of anxiety or discomfort or whatever, whatever you're feeling with change, with feeling happening when change is going on for those things to to last. We have to work through it. So a caregiver example, right? So you're a caregiver. You decide you're going to start your you're going to start exercising more because, you know, you know, you need to and, you know, it's good for you. And so you decide, maybe I'm going to start walking three miles every day after work. That's great. Great, great idea. And you do it the first day, maybe the second day, maybe the third day you go a mile and a half, maybe the fourth day it's on your calendar. You miss completely because you got home from work late and you weren't feeling it, and so you skipped it. And then you start beating yourself up. I'm a failure. I knew this wasn't going to work. I shouldn't have tried this. And you let those feelings take over and you give up. People do it all the time. I've done it a bazillion times.