These slides are from an Ignite talk that I did at Riding the Wave of Change in Manitoba, Canada, 2016. When I first got started in education, I tried to do ALL THE THINGS. But eventually, I learned that this was making everything I did mediocre. When I learned how to do less, but better, amazing things started happening.

1. WHAT’S THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING?

2. YOU HAVE PERMISSION
TO DO LESS (BUT BETTER)

3. STARTING OUT

4. THOSE THINGS WE INHERIT

5. FEAR OF LETTING
OTHERS DOWN

6. OVERCOMMITMENT = BURNOUT

7. CUTTING BACK ON THINGS

8. FINDING MY PASSION

9. DYNAMIC CHANGE

10. TRANSFORMATION

13. “LESS, BUT BETTER”
~Dieter Rams

15. “Keep only those things that
SPEAK to your HEART.
DISCARD the rest.”
~Marie Kondo
The Life Changing Magic
of Tidying Up

16. DOES THIS MAKE
YOUR HEART SING?

18. TAKING CARE OF
YOURSELF IS NOT
SELFISH

19. PASSION IS CONTAGIOUS

20. DON’T OFFER UP AN EXHAUSTED
VERSION OF YOURSELF