Module 3 Lab
Part One: Singlets
- Conjumbled (noun): a mindset of confusion, no direction, messiness, and/or lacking clarity.
- Singsponse (adjective): reaching a level of frustration where all you can do is sing your thoughts to deal with a situation instead of yelling.
- Dorying (verb): when a person is only interested and/or engaged for a short period of time
Part Two: Reconsidering and Reframing
What’s the Problem Really?
I belong to a gym that is about a 20-minute freeway drive away from my home and work. There are plenty of gyms much closer to my house, but I choose to go to this particular gym because the price is right and outside of the “bubble” I work and live in so I don’t run into familiar faces. This may sound a bit harsh, but I like to spend my gym time as a time to decompress, listen to my music and to finally not have to talk - something us teachers do all day long. Every year, around the same time, this already small-in-size gym becomes flooded with people who have made a new year’s resolution to go to the gym more often – a great goal for anyone, including myself! The trouble is, my gym routine already includes fighting rush hour traffic to get to there, but now it includes a gym so packed I can hardly find a parking space or an open machine. It’s great to see so many people motivated and making a healthier choice but my day becomes even longer with the rush of new gym members every January. I wouldn’t be able to do my full routine and found myself becoming frustrated or losing motivation to go to the gym all together. I would get home and have an extremely late dinner, unpack my lunch, repack my lunch and have just enough time to shower before I passed out.
As the New Year approached, I upped my patience level and tried to approach this issue from a different angle. Instead of following my “gym routine” that proved to be difficult to follow during the winter months, I decided to adjust the way my after-work hours were spent. I would try to stay at work a little longer and get some to-do items off my list that I typically would accomplish by coming in early in the mornings. I would leave work and get my lunch; papers and other items ready to go right when I got home. I would leave to get to the gym about an hour later than I typically did, which avoided rush hour traffic, and avoided the post-work crowd at the gym. While I was getting home later in the evening, I already fulfilled my other responsibilities. Additionally, I didn’t have to get to work as early in the morning because I had stayed late enough to get those things done after dismissal. By redefining this problem as something I could fix myself instead of “dealing with the crowds” or skipping the gym all together, I am able to accomplish everything I typically do, just not in the same exact fashion.
I belong to a gym that is about a 20-minute freeway drive away from my home and work. There are plenty of gyms much closer to my house, but I choose to go to this particular gym because the price is right and outside of the “bubble” I work and live in so I don’t run into familiar faces. This may sound a bit harsh, but I like to spend my gym time as a time to decompress, listen to my music and to finally not have to talk - something us teachers do all day long. Every year, around the same time, this already small-in-size gym becomes flooded with people who have made a new year’s resolution to go to the gym more often – a great goal for anyone, including myself! The trouble is, my gym routine already includes fighting rush hour traffic to get to there, but now it includes a gym so packed I can hardly find a parking space or an open machine. It’s great to see so many people motivated and making a healthier choice but my day becomes even longer with the rush of new gym members every January. I wouldn’t be able to do my full routine and found myself becoming frustrated or losing motivation to go to the gym all together. I would get home and have an extremely late dinner, unpack my lunch, repack my lunch and have just enough time to shower before I passed out.
As the New Year approached, I upped my patience level and tried to approach this issue from a different angle. Instead of following my “gym routine” that proved to be difficult to follow during the winter months, I decided to adjust the way my after-work hours were spent. I would try to stay at work a little longer and get some to-do items off my list that I typically would accomplish by coming in early in the mornings. I would leave work and get my lunch; papers and other items ready to go right when I got home. I would leave to get to the gym about an hour later than I typically did, which avoided rush hour traffic, and avoided the post-work crowd at the gym. While I was getting home later in the evening, I already fulfilled my other responsibilities. Additionally, I didn’t have to get to work as early in the morning because I had stayed late enough to get those things done after dismissal. By redefining this problem as something I could fix myself instead of “dealing with the crowds” or skipping the gym all together, I am able to accomplish everything I typically do, just not in the same exact fashion.