360. Three Systems for a Calmer Back to School

It's back to school season, and if you're the one in your house tracking every form, portal, email, and schedule change, you already know what's coming. All that information lands at once, and it turns into chaos fast.

That first week or two back is overwhelming for two reasons: a huge amount of change hits all at once, and it's a total shift from your summer atmosphere to your school year atmosphere. In this episode, I'm sharing three systems I put into place every single year to get ahead of that overwhelm, not to prevent the chaos, but to make sure I'm not the one carrying it all by myself for the rest of the year.

In This Episode, I'll Cover:

• Where I tell every piece of incoming information to go so it stops living in five different places at once.
• The one weekly appointment with myself that keeps me from reacting to every email and notification the moment it lands.
• Why I intentionally leave a window of my calendar blank the first week and weekend of school, and what that protects me from.
• The tool at the center of our house that means my family stops asking me what day it is.

Resources Mentioned:

• TOP for Students digital course: https://megansumrall.com/student
• Episode 251 - Family Communication Center setup: www.megansumrell.com/blog/how-to-create-an-effective-family-communication-center-with-the-skylight-calendar
• Episode 312 - Family meetings: www.megansumrell.com/blog/family-meetings-that-actually-work-with-christy-keating
• YouTube Skylight Calendar Tutorial: https://youtu.be/85fSKIYyTi0

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