106. How to Go into the New School Year More Inspired & Less Tired with Special Guest Phil Januszewski
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Going into a new school year can be daunting. We all want to walk in happy go lucky with tons of energy, inspired, and joyful. However, that's not always as easy as it sounds.
In this episode, we get to chat with Phil Januszewski. Phil Januszewski is a tattoo covered, Netflix baking-show flopping, high-energy chemistry/physics teaching keynote speaker and coach that is on a mission to create and spread happiness through education, motivation, and entertainment. He empowers the givers in the world to completely flourish in their personal lives first, in order to ignite passion and purpose in their professional lives as well.
Phil is a nationally known dynamic speaker of 10+ years and a public school educator since 2005 with a bachelors in chemistry, a masters in teaching leadership, and a certification in positive education.
When not speaking, teaching, or supporting the givers in the world, Phil enjoys everyday adventures with his wife and two children and pursuing his personal passions of fitness, baking, networking, and personal development. If you ever meet Phil, be prepared for a great deal of positive energy, love, and passion.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Transition from Burnout to Fired Up: Practical strategies to re-energize.
- Phil Januszewski’s Insights: Key takeaways from the Summer Self-Care Conference.
- Positive Psychology Tips: Staying resilient and energized.
- Importance of Self-Care: Strategies for teachers to prioritize self-care.
- Energizing Activities: Identifying and incorporating fulfilling activities.
- Setting Boundaries: Managing workload to prevent burnout.
- Community Building: Enhancing inspiration through community support.
- Introverts’ Contributions: Valuing unique strengths in the teaching community.
- Positive Growth Lounge: Benefits of Phil’s teacher membership group.
- Energy Audits: Evaluating activities for energy impact.
- Leveraging Strengths: Using personality assessments for personal growth.
- Final Advice: Encouragement to be intentional about self-care.
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RELATED EPISODES:
- Episode 59: Breathing Life into Education: The Power of Breathwork in Reducing Stress & Teacher Burnout with Dr. Katie Raher [Summer Self-Care Series]
- Episode 60: Unlocking Classroom Success: 4 Types of Systems You Need to Stress Less & Sustain Your Career [Summer Self-Care Series] with Special Guest Samantha Holcomb
- Episode 61: Tapping into Joyful Living Inside & Outside of the Classroom: Strategies for Teacher Happiness with Special Guest Maddy Fry
- Episode 62: Digital Organization: Your Secret Weapon for Stress-Free Teaching with Special Guest Lisa McHargue
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TRANSCRIPT:
[0:00] One of the things that teachers struggle with as the new year approaches is feeling more exhausted than excited. And once the school year is in full force, more tired and less inspired. Can you relate to that? I think we'd all love to just step into our classroom every day with energy, with inspiration, with joy. But that's just not the way it goes down always. ways. Today, I'm really excited to chat with Phil Januszewski, who is one of the presenters at this year's Summer Self-Care Conference that happened July 19th through the 21st. His session, Leaning Into Your Purpose, Three Actions Towards Thriving Instead of Surviving, really got into the nitty gritty of that. But if you missed out, no worries. Phil is going to give us some true practical strategies to help you go from burned out to fired up. And if you missed out on this year's Summer Self-Care Conference, you can still get an all-access pass with his recorded presentation and Q&A, along with 20 others and tons of amazing bonuses at teachingmindbodyandsoul.com slash Summer Self-Care Conference.
[1:01] You're definitely going to want to stick around for these juicy tips that Phil and I discuss. So let's not waste any time and let's get into it.
[1:39] Thank you for watching. Thank you. All right, I am super excited to have Bill here with me today. Welcome to the Resilient Teacher Podcast. Hey, thanks so much for having me, Brittany. I fully wholeheartedly believe in what you're doing for educators. So I was immediately drawn to you and your message. So to be here with you is an honor. So thank you for having me. Absolutely. So Phil, just for those people who are listening and who maybe don't know of you and your whole vibe, can you share a little bit about who you are, what you do, how long you've been teaching, all those sorts of things? Sure thing. Let's run down the bio, Brittany. I love Love it. So my name is Phil Januszewski. I'm a speaker, teacher, and creator. And one of my main things in life that I've been doing for a long time now, since 2005, is I'm a high school chemistry and physics teacher in a public school in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago. So that's what I've been doing right now as we tape is the last, just got done with my 19th full year of school, And next year will be my 20th. And besides that, I've had the strange, unique and amazing experience to have accidentally fallen into public speaking about 2013. My now best friend and I got paired together at a leadership conference for youth.
[2:57] To present to them for an hour. And long story short, Brittany, I ended up becoming a professional motivational speaker for youth. And it's been going well. It's amazing. I've gotten to go across the nation and lifting up teenagers on how to build their self-confidence and how to promote a positive mindset.
[3:15] And fast forward now to modern day today. And I'm a little bit of a media marketing nightmare, Brittany, because I do quite a few things. And as you know, they say the riches are in the niches, right? They're like, don't be confusing to people. But I am, and I guess I make my own rules on that. But I also speak personally by myself to adults, specifically givers of the world. So humans like amazing educators and teachers out there, firefighters, nurses, people who give consistently and serve others. And as you know, Brittany, not just educators, but people who give, give, give, it's easy for them to burn out if we don't take more control back of our lives. So in 2020, during the lockdown, obviously education changed. We were on a screen. I don't know about you, but I had a lot of black blank screens with people not showing their faces. I saw a lot of my coworkers, my mentors, people I looked up to just getting so drained. And I was one of them included.
[4:17] And I said, there's got to be a way for us to take control the situation, even though it's a rough one, as best we can and make the best possible outcome. So I really started diving into positive psychology and I really started looking into what has allowed me to stay resilient in tough times, what has allowed me to be able to bring energy, even when sometimes it's a depleting environment. And that's now what I do. I go around and talk to educators and givers about ways that we can better pour into ourselves first so that we can then give even more to the world once we take care of number one first. Yes. Oh my gosh. And you were talking about around 2020. I feel like that was the turning point for so many of us, especially those who are wanting to support educators and people in general. We all saw how things were changing. And that was when I was like, you know what? There's got to be a better way. I've got to share these things that I have researched for years and years and years. And it's funny to hear other people say those exact same things. They experience that almost like, I don't want to call it something woo-woo, but like awakening of just realizing, hey, there's got to be a better way. And who better than me to share my experience?
[5:40] I'm wholeheartedly agree with that. And when I was looking back in your bio and when I first originally connected with you, I thought, oh, my gosh, Brittany and I like have such a similar passion and purpose and similar time frame. Even it's just it is really incredible how that moment in time allowed us to pause and really open our eyes in different ways. And for some of us, that was an opportunity for us to serve others even more. For some of us, it was a really extra rough time where we were just trying to barely keep our head above water. But yeah, I'm so drawn to your message and what you do. I was like, oh, wow, we're literally mirroring these same exact things. You're just a few years ahead of me and I love it. I'm cheering you on. That is so cool. So tell me a little bit like you, you talked a little bit about how you were kind of burning out. I think teachers right now are experiencing this push towards working more and more and more and we're being given more and more to do. How do we like help educators show up to work less tired and more inspired.
[6:47] Even when the odds are against us? I love that you asked that because that's exactly like my tagline. I want people to be more inspired instead of just tired. And when I walk into the building, a lot of my coworkers do look exhausted. We're kind of shuffling in, they're relying on that coffee. And I walk in and I've got quite a bit of energy, a little pep in my step, which I'm sure can be obnoxious to some people early in the morning. But I started looking into why is it that I can consistently bring energy and a positive mindset, even when it is such challenging times in education.
[7:22] And my number one thing that I always preach and try to pour into my audience is that if we start looking into our errs, E-R-S, our errs, the things that we are that we do, but not just that, but the errs that we are and do.
[7:38] That energize us, that build us up, that don't deplete us. If we start paying attention to those things, that can be the perfect shift in our lives that can completely create a launchpad for us to have more energy. So for example, I'm a teacher, I'm a father, I'm a baker, I'm a cooker, I'm a worker outerer, I'm a learner, right? We all have these things. And I like to say too, but I'm a bill payer, right? I'm a grader. I'm a lot of things, but I'm focusing on those errs that really fill me up when I lean into those. And if I start paying attention to those, first of all, being aware of what those errs are. And then next, am I intentionally building that into my day? And this doesn't need to be something like, I love to bake and cook, so I need to spend three hours a day on that. I'm just saying, if I know that being creative and a creator and baking and cooking fill that need, is there a way for me to fit that in my day, even for a little bit so that I can touch on that and fill me up. So when I come home every day, I make dinner six days a week for my family. When I'm in the kitchen, my kids are around, they're doing their homework. So I can still be a cooker or a baker, but also a father.
[8:52] Also, I think food is a way to create, and I love just trying to create new things. So I start finding the things in my day that are part of my daily routine that allow me to pour back into myself so that when we sit down at dinner at 515 every night, that's family dinner time for us. I not only got to do something that I enjoy, but I get to sit down and again, be with my family and realize that I've done some things that are really energizing me and filling me up. So again.
[9:24] When I talk to others, so often we're just in this survival mode that we're in habits of making it through. But if we can purposefully realize what fills us up and then start building in those little things, even five minutes at a time, and structure it so that it becomes a schedule or part of our day, it can make a huge impact on the amount of energy we start building up in our bank, in our positive mindset, if you will. Yeah. You know, there, there's this thing that I do and it's you have a circle and you create tick marks around the circle and the tick marks are sharing like, what are the tasks that you have to do every day? What are, what's everything you have to do? And it can be positive. It can be negative, but then starting to recognize how many of those things you are taking away energy versus giving you energy, start to help you kind of recognize.
[10:19] Hey, maybe I'm not really pouring back into myself as much as I think I am. And just, I love the way that you said that with the errs, because oftentimes we don't really think about what are we? Like if we can think, what are we as far as like, I'm a mother, I'm a creator, I guess, a creator. I like those are the things that really bring me joy. And I love how you said that, like just thinking about those errs. What are some of the other things that that teachers can look at and kind of create in their daily routine that bring back that energy? Like, is there a specific task that you can think of that kind of help them to maybe refocus that on those errs? Well, I think something that I think every single one of us would say is.
[11:17] And I'm sure you've said it too, right, is setting those healthy boundaries, first of all, to be realistic with yourself about what you can physically actually do in a day. If you work 24 seven, there would still always be more work to do to help kids. It's just, it's nothing. It's never a goal you could ever fully reach and say, you know what? That's it. There's nothing else I could have done that. That's impossible with humans. So we do have to be realistic. And I, And I do think sometimes that's hard for us because that's something we've grown up and expected, that we have to do the job in order to get the job done, and that's serving kids. So before I would say to add anything into your day, I would say, what are the things that you're doing, maybe out of habit, maybe that have served class well, but now are no longer relevant, no longer needed, or just extra fluff that even though you like doing it or it's there, maybe you don't actually have to do that and start focusing on the things that do make impact.
[12:18] And as we know, connections are a great way to make impact with our students. So I always say that a lot of times educators can feel selfish for pouring more into themselves, but I say it's selfish for teachers not to, because we know what kind of teacher we are when we show up exhausted.
[12:37] Irritable, angry, depleted. It doesn't matter all of the great activities we have. It doesn't matter all of the awesome feedback we're going to get or the data we're going to collect. If we're not making those connections because we're not bringing our best self, then all that other stuff really doesn't hit or matter as well because we all know that this is a human game. It's a humankind-human connection game. So again, before we say anything about what we can add, I would start to say, what can we take away? Or I like to say is declutter. You know, it's amazing. You have that activity with the ticker with my teacher group are my positive growth lounge. We did an energy audit different style, but the same exact thing you're doing, Brittany, it's like nine, 9 PM to 9 PM the next day. I want you to write down everything you've done and check box. Did it energize me, deplete me or keep me neutral and add it all up. And you're right. People are saying, I thought I was doing good, but I am so negative by the end of the day, as opposed to net positive. So that you saying that earlier was like, yes, I'm so on board with you. So now to answer your question, because Brittany, gosh, you know, I'm long-winded. You can tell I'm a high school teacher, can't you? No.
[13:52] I love to lecture, right? Which is not the best way to teach anymore. But anyways, I would say for them to build in the things that still touch on their errs. So one thing I love to do as a teacher and just a person is I love to like surprise people or pay it forward in some way. So for me in the classroom, occasionally I'll whip out like skillets and make pancakes as a surprise for my students. And we'll just have a little breakfast. Now I'm never saying that everyone needs to go cook for their class. That would be miserable to some people. But when you know your errs, then you can slowly and casually incorporate that into your classroom so that when you're doing that, and this is always my third action for anyone who's a giver, is once you have the energy and the mental space to think about, how can I bring some of my errs to work to bring my true, happy, positive self. If you start including that at work in your own quirky, unique way, not only do you connect even more with the people around you, because let's be honest, when I'm cooking for someone, I'm excited, I'm happy, I'm serving them, I'm feeding them. Most people, Brittany, are pretty happy when you feed them. I think the pathway to the heart is through the stomach. At least that's how I got my wife. She figured out that I was going to be able to feed her well for her whole life. So thank goodness.
[15:17] But when I give something that's natural to me and that I enjoy, and I share that with others, especially if it isn't completely overlapping with regular everyday curriculum as a teacher or what my job description is, people.
[15:32] Just connect with you more and it energizes them. And it also energizes me. And because of that, I'm riding high on that into the rest of the day. Another quick example, I don't mind and I enjoy like event planning. So I just every year collect money from my coworkers to throw a big thank you Thanksgiving day banquet for our maintenance crew. So the Wednesday before Thanksgiving or the Tuesday, whatever our last day is, our schedule changes every year. But whatever our last day of school is, we bring all this food in and all the maintenance crew comes in, the custodians, we thank them, we have raffles, we feed them, and we don't sit there and serve them. We learned actually a long time ago, that's awkward for people. Like, you know, like how many pieces of chicken can I get? We learned that everybody just wants to serve themselves. But what they thought was weird the first year is what we like sat and watched them instead of eating as a family. So now we bring this all together. We sit down and eat as a family, tell them we're so thankful for them. And it's become something that to some people, Brittany, would be so overwhelming. You're going to email 200 of your coworkers, collect money, organize this. But to someone like me, that's just a natural thing I enjoy.
[16:47] I enjoy the logistics of ordering and collecting and then serving others. It's something that fills me up. So some people would think that would be exhausting. But to me, I just got a huge boost of adrenaline from doing that and organizing it a couple emails every day, you know, in October all the way to November. That gives me like those little energy pops, those little energy boosts. So to finally answer your question, Brittany, I would say, can you plug in a little bit of your natural talents, quirkiness and urs into your day to help push you through and energize you so that you can do your job even better. Oh, gosh. The community aspect of what you are saying is so powerful. People don't realize how much community really brings and energizes people, even if you're an introvert.
[17:40] Extroverts can do all of these great things. They can bring these people together. But at the end of the day, community is such a big piece. And I just love what you're doing to kind of bring all of that together when you're talking about about, you know, the, you know, doing this event planning and stuff like that, because that's kind of what I do with the summer self-care conference every year, is I bring all of these people together so that we can start to focus more on ourselves before going back into the classroom in the fall. You have all of these people, these like-minded people, these teachers who have dealt with burnout or want to prevent burnout or, you know, have all of these great ways of doing it. And I just, we are like two peas in a pod, you and I, Phil.
[18:22] I wholeheartedly agree. I also love that you brought up introverts because that's often a pushback I get when I speak to adults. And I love that you brought that up because introverts have a different way of connecting and it is no less, by any means, no less important, valid, or impactful. I have some introvert friends and teachers and coworkers that I see in the hall and they just give me that like little look and warm smile. And like, I know they've got my back and support me. I also know amazing introvert teachers who have an incredible way of expressing themselves through the written word and can write just the quickest, nicest note or email so eloquently that I would struggle with, have to hit up Grammarly for, have my wife look at it. Like I want it to sound more fancy, right? But some people have such a gift of that. And I think we all can play a role in building that sense of community, even when, and again, I get it, extroverts get noticed because we're loud and obnoxious. I get it. I am loud and obnoxious. But yes, we cannot overlook the impact. Introverts are so crucial. And without that connection, I get it. We're just like teaching kids information and trying to help them. But if you don't have that connection, it's really hard to go along that whole journey of a year together if you don't have some sort of, I know you're human, you know I'm human, let's grow together.
[19:49] Absolutely. And the whole idea with the community piece is like each of us bring these unique strengths and unique weaknesses to the table that we can all kind of help and support each other in different ways. Like for you being Being a little bit more verbose or coming out and just being super positive for some people, again, that might be kind of overwhelming to for them to do that. But in the end, it's like a little bit of give and take. I think the biggest part that we as teachers can do, especially for those teachers who are overwhelmed or, you know, aren't really even sure they're like, you know, Phil, this sounds great, but I don't even know what my errs are. I think really even going back to determining like your Enneagram might be a really great way just to kind of recognize what does, you know, energize you. What, who are you? Are you an extrovert? Are you an introvert? and really getting down to the nitty gritty of who you are and then kind of taking away those.
[20:58] Energy draining tasks and adding more of those energizing things. It's kind of a process, don't you think? Yes, 100%. I've been working on this process. Honestly, I've always loved personal development. And when I really got into public speaking for youth, Matt, my co-speaker, and I said, we always have to walk the walk. We never want to be hypocritical. So in 2013, really started my journey and obsession of how can I live the best life so that I can make the most impact. And as corny as that sounds, over the last 11 years now, I've slowly tweaked more and more to the fact where Monday through Friday, I can tell you with 90% accuracy at what time of day, what I'm probably doing. And, and because of that, I love the structure because it doesn't take as much energy now to think about, ah, when am I going to work out? When am I going to see my children? When am I going to have time to create? When am I going to have time to grade? When am I going to have time to interact with my coworkers? So for me, structure is, is something that is so valuable because it allows me to be my best self. But everything you're saying, the way you're asking questions too, it's like I'm paying you to ask these questions to feed me. Because Brittany, you are like, we are so in sync right now. It's insane. You brought up the fact that some people don't even know what their errs are.
[22:22] And that's the next thing I always talk about in my presentations and keynotes is that, all right, so some of you are saying that's great, Phil, but I have no clue. Then I always pull up this QR code. It's for the VIA Character Strengths Survey. And what it does is it's backed by some good research, but what it does is it gives you your top five character strengths, the things that when you do, you can hit a higher state of flow. And what that's gonna do is lead them better into, okay, if for me, my top three character strengths are love, laughing, so humor, and then love of learning. So if I'm loving, laughing, or learning, I am pretty much high on natural drugs. I mean, so that is 100%. So people can take that survey and get started with that too. But you're absolutely right. If we're in such a groove or maybe a funk, I could say that we're just going through the motions. It's going to be really, really hard to figure out even like, what do I like? What even fills me up? So I'm so grateful you brought that up. That is such an important point. And I think I'm going to put I put that in the show notes as well, just that quiz, because that's one of the things that I do is I look at, I haven't specifically looked at that test, but I tell people, you know, look at your Enneagram.
[23:41] Do your Myers-Briggs personality to really determine, like, how do you interact with other people? I think when you start to focus a little bit more on who you are and really getting down to the nitty gritty of that, you start to recognize how you interact with people, but then how people interact with you. And so then it becomes more about how can we interact together to create that community and feel a little bit more, more inspired and less tired, like you say, you know, like it's just, it's really cool that, you know, the two, the two of us really do a lot of the same things. So when, when we're, you say something, you said something before, when we're flourishing, we're able to give even more to the world. How do you do that with your Positive Growth Lounge? I know, I know that you have that teacher membership. And I think some people are just looking for that community that may be.
[24:42] They will fit in with, that they will feel a little bit better with. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much for asking. So one of the reasons I created what's called the Positive Growth Lounge Teacher Membership is to bring educators from across the nation together. And we meet twice a month on Wednesday nights. And all we do for 40 minutes is we meet up, check in with each other. Again, that sense of community, Brittany, like you said. And then also, besides that sense of community, I like to be like the head coach and we always dive in to some new positive psychology theme to just better ourselves.
[25:20] So twice a month, we're meeting up, licking each other's wounds a little bit and then coming together and saying, OK, things can always be tough, but we can always make a better positive outcome. What are we going to focus on this meeting? And that's what we do. We lean on each other and then we grow together. So it's I created it because I needed it. And I'm just so grateful that other people have jumped on to to be a part of it. It's the highlight twice a month. It's the highlights of my month just to see my teacher friends. And the beautiful thing is we're a small and humble group. We're nothing that's 3000 people and we don't know each other. We all know each other by name and well and can lean on each other. So it's building that connection piece that sometimes not all of us can get in our own building. So I wanted to have that available in case other people needed that. Absolutely. And they do need that because I can tell you as a teacher who was in a building that I was not connected to the other people, I didn't have that connection piece for such a long time in the beginning of my career. like I needed that. I needed a place that I could go, that I could have friends that just understood kind of what I was dealing with in day in and day out as a teacher, but then also building me back up because I think that's often the piece that's, that's missing in those communities. We can, we can get stuck kind of draining each other, you know? And so having that community that's focused focused on positive psychology.
[26:48] Huge, huge. I love what you're doing, Phil. I love it.
[26:52] Before I let you go, I know that we've talked a lot today. Is there anything that maybe we talked about that may be, you didn't get to talk, you know, more in depth about or any last bit of advice that you might give teachers out there today? Well, thank you. First of all, I'm super excited to be collaborating with you and being a part of your virtual event this summer. So thanks for having me on board. And now that we've talked even more, it's crazy how much we overlap. So this is such a perfect synergy. So thank you for inviting me into your world so that I can help pour into those you are connected with. One other thing I wanted to mention and you were talking about that I felt was really inspiring is you said that sense of community you're creating with your virtual event. But if you really think about it, like your urs, your purpose, the things you love, what you're doing, and then you're serving others by doing it. So it's valuing the world. And in a way, eventually and unapologetically, that will allow you to create income to provide for you and your family. If you're familiar with the term, the Japanese term, you're icky guy.
[27:58] That's what actually you're doing right now is you're overlapping your passions with purpose, with what the world needs, but also a way for you to actually survive and make money. So when you were saying that, I thought that was so inspiring that you found yourself in this section of your life and niche where you're lighting up all those places. And I think that's so inspiring. And I think it goes back to what you mentioned earlier, that when we start digging into ourselves more and realizing what does energize and light us up, and we first start plugging it into our everyday life, and then all of a sudden it starts spilling into other ideas that you might create. All of a sudden you can find yourself living a life that is fairly similar to what you were living before, but it's just these little tiny changes you've made that have now have completely lit up your world. You end up putting your head down at night, net positive, feeling all the good things you were able to do. And that takes intention.
[28:54] The last thing then I just want to remind my fellow educators, you beautiful givers out there, I know you're giving so much and we're proud of you and appreciative of everything you do, but it's time to be a little bit selfish, be realistic on what you can accomplish in your day, dig into the good things that you love in your life so that you can show up to not just work, but most importantly, your life energized and inspired. And when you do that, you're going to to naturally be able to give more. If we're an empty pitcher, we can't pour it out. But if we're an overflowing pitcher, all of a sudden, we can take ourselves fully energized and take that overflowing water and give to others. So Brittany, thank you so much. It's been an absolute pleasure to be here with you guys. And honestly, I just love your energy and everything you stand for. Gosh, I mean, I just got chills there at the end too, Phil, because what you say, oh, Oh, it resonates so hard with this community, with the Resilient Teacher Podcast and everything. So thank you so much for taking the time to come and chat with me and hang out with me today. Phil, I'm going to put all of the links for where teachers can find you, where they can connect with you. Do you want to share any more about where they can find you or any of those things? Oh, thanks, Brittany. No, my name's kind of unique. So Phil Januszewski, if you can Google it, you'll find me everywhere. All my handles are at Phil Januszewski. ski. So thanks so much though. It's been an absolute pleasure. Awesome. Thank you so much.
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