Last week, we looked at four characteristics of flow, using STER: Selfless, Timeless, Effortless and Richness of information.
When you consider flow in your own life, you may or may not find full-blown peak experiences. Flow can show up on a micro level when looking at a beautiful sunset, when...
This week, I decided to play with AI and I asked ChatGPT to talk about flow in the tone of a teenager. The result made me laugh out loud…and maybe you will, too…but it was also pretty darn accurate, so I thought I would open up this week’s blog with some AI inspiration.
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The blog where families find flow and learn to learn.
Thoughts & Reflections
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Don't miss the doorway to flow
Do your children have a tell so you know a brain break is needed? What is it? It might be a way they hold...
The Doorway to Flow
We’ve been talking the last couple of weeks about using a brain break to jump start flow and increase learning. Remember, brain breaks are the second stage of flow. During the struggle stage, when our kids are focusing intently on something, stress chemicals are...
The blog where families find flow and learn to learn.
Thoughts & Reflections
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Release is the second stage of the flow cycle, where we let go of our worries, distractions, and self-doubt. It is a time of relaxation,...
Have you ever been working intensely on something and you reach your breaking point? You feel like your head’s going to explode or you’re in total overwhelm. That’s a good thing gone too far. We need frequent breaks to release the pressure building up inside of us, like we do...
The blog where families find flow and learn to learn.
Thoughts & Reflections
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Struggling through Struggle
Mindset
You may find that you notice a growth mindset in some areas and a fixed mindset in others. This is...
Navigating through the Struggle Stage
During the last couple of weeks, we’ve talked about the struggle stage of learning. Feeling your best, finding flow, starts in struggle. You might recognize struggle as the part of learning that feels hard and often negative emotions in the form of...
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Thoughts & Reflections
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Whenever I think about talking to my kids about something I'd like them to think about, I look inside first. Let's dig in.
Where are you...
When asked what we want for our children, we often say that we want them to be happy. Of course, that sounds right, but when we look closer at happy, what does that actually mean? Think back to the most significant moments in your own life. Do you find happy? Maybe it’s the birth of your...
Thoughts & Reflections
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Flow is the state of mind, body, and spirit where we feel our best and perform our best.
We’ve focused on our mamas and pappas in these last few posts, as your wellbeing is...
Whenever we’ve been doing the same thing for too long, we start to drift. It may be that our focus takes a hit or perhaps a foot falls asleep or we start to fidget. How long that takes is unique for each of us, depending on lots of variables, but when we’ve past that threshold…...
