How does one self-improve?

When you're running on empty, so is everyone around you

- DR. KAYCEE REYES

Let me be honest with you: I didn't fully understand self-regulation until I sat in Teacher Ana Quijano's self-regulation workshop and experienced Kaizen in Leadership Excellence Achievement Program (LEAP) innov8 this weekend.

In medicine, we talk about homeostasis—the body’s ability to return to balance. Self-regulation is essentially that, but for your whole self. It’s your capacity to manage three states simultaneously: physical, emotional, and mental. Not one. Not two. All three. And when any one of those is running on fumes, the others collapse too. Your teenager says the wrong thing at dinner, and suddenly it’s World War III. But was it really about the teenager? Or were you already depleted from a full day of decisions, emails, and just... holding it together?