December 14
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It was a really busy week this week.
As students enter high school, this becomes a "catchphrase" of sorts. Often followed with, "so I didn't practice much this week."
This is the same reason students pause lessons altogether. Life gets too busy. Kids go into middle school. Kids go into high school. Adult students start a new job.
The plan is to pause while they "settle into the transition."
But the result is always the same. They never come back.
Why?
Because it never gets easier.
The school workload doesn't cease. The new job isn't much different from the old job. The thing that made you stop practicing or stop lessons will always be there.
So better to embrace it all. Or even have the courage to change it. Because we don't have to be so busy all the time.
Instead of quitting or pausing, we can take the time to figure out how to continue. How to manage the craziness. Or change the things that make life so crazy to begin with.
Then, you can become one of those special people that continued and thrived while everyone else stopped for the reasons that everyone stops.
That would be kinda cool. Don't you think?
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