Lessons from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:
1) Don’t give up. A Ford Anglia can fly up to your window at any time. Or you can pretend a Ford Anglia has flown up to your window. In fact, you don’t even need the Ford Anglia. First floor window? If you are in good shape, try carefully exiting through a window today instead of the door.
(Or decide to be sensible and save the window entrances and exits for heroic firefighters. This blog is about resting, after all, not falling out of windows. The point here is that we often have more options than we believe.)
2) Your Dobby could arrive at any moment. How do you know he won’t? You have never seen a house elf before? Well, neither had Harry. Has it been a long, dry spell? Too many muggles and too little butterbeer? Magic may pop up in your bedroom, laundry room, or classroom tomorrow. Magic has its own timing. Your job is to recognize magic when the sparks start to fly or, trickier yet, when they don’t.
Coaching Tip for Today: Believe in magic and butterbeer. Believe that when the door closes, you can open a window. We mostly end up stuck in ticky-tack boxes because we use heuristics that require door knobs as part of our exit strategy.
When you don’t have a door knob, a clamp will work as well. Or a window. Or a house elf — with or without a Ford Anglia.
Practical advice: Believe in magic. And while you wait for your Anglia or elf, make yourself a hot chocolate with marshmallows or whipped cream. Sprinkles are optional. I recommend real Hershey’s syrup with milk, but if you like those little Swiss Miss packets, go for it. Do you need to put sprinkles on your shopping list?
Zombie phrase for the day:
I always spill the sprinkles.
Ahhh uhhhuhhh bihhll duhh bihnnnguhhh.
