<p>Matthew Mahavongtrakul and Bonni Stachowiak have a conversation about being kind to our future selves on episode 615 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br /> <div id="" class="one-half first divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Quotes from the episode</h2> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-21129" src="https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE615-1-300x200.png" alt="Not everything that comes your way is an emergency. Not everything that comes your way has to demand your immediate attention." width="551" height="367" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE615-1.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE615-1.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE615-1.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE615-1.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE615-1.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE615-1.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px" /></p> <p>Not everything that comes your way is an emergency. Not everything that comes your way has to demand your immediate attention.<br /> -Matthew Mahavongtrakul</p> <p>Once you are comfortable with your system and you&#8217;re iterating, it actually starts to become second nature, not only to professional life, but to personal life as well.<br /> -Matthew Mahavongtrakul</p> <p>An exercise that I did with my supervisor once was to actually go through each of these tasks and to see what I thought was high priority, was it actually high priority for the job that I was in?<br /> -Matthew Mahavongtrakul</p> <p><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p></div><div id="" class="one-half divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karen-costa-380280a7_dashboard-deskpad-activity-7420457471611146241-2krN/">Karen Costa’s LinkedIn Post About the Ink &#38; Volt Planning Dashboard</a></li> <li><a href="https://notsubrand.com/">Notsu</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_Matrix">Eisenhower Matrix</a></li> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/unpacking-resilience-grief/">Episode 407: Unpacking Resilience and Grief with Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, and Este Jordan</a> (they share about each of their “pandemic dirty words” on this episode)</li> <li><a href="[https://goblin.tools/ToDo](https://goblin.tools/ToDo)">Goblin Tools &#8211; Magic ToDo</a></li> <li><a href="https://inkandvolt.com/products/ink-volt-dashboard-deskpad">Ink and Volt Dashboard Deskpad</a></li> <li><a href="https://voiced.ca/podcast_episode_post/the-open-education-network-with-robin-derosa-and-david-ernst/">Gettin’ Air: The Open Education Network with Robin DeRosa and David Ernst, by Terry Greene</a></li> <li><a href="https://asana.com/">Asana</a></li> </ul> <p></div></p>