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Maintaining IN S ID E T H I S I S SU E

your own sense of perspective

From what I am hearing about construction activities, this
is shaping up to be a summer of challenges and change for
everyone in Klahanie. We will have the road closures associated
with the construction on the Issaquah Fall City Road (please read
the expanded article in this edition) and the Issaquah school
district is planning to construct a new elementary school in A S S O C I A T ION D I R E C T OR
Jacob’s Creek which is likely to also impact us and the Issaquah- Fred Nystrom
Pine Lake Road.
Now is the ideal time to realize that our “normal” will not be
normal again for a few years. Travel times will change, our
surface streets in Klahanie will be congested and we will spend
more time in “rush-hour” conditions. These are the outward
conditions that will challenge us but we can’t change.
The key to your peace of mind is in being creative with the things
you can change. Explore working from home, or adjusting your OWNER
commute time, or riding your bike to the grocery store. These A C O L L E G E P L A N
will all help, but the real difference is in your self-talk. Seek Claudia Coté
ways to be kind to yourself and to those around you. Instead of Klahanie resident Claudia Coté
previously was the senior career
bemoaning the traffi c, reframe it as “extra time” you are given
counselor at Issaquah High School
each day to listen to a book on tape, or learn Spanish before your and now runs her own mentoring
next vacation in Mexico. Be creative rather than a grump. One company, A College Plan. She is
a member of Higher Education
of my favorite ways to de-grump in traffi c is to look for a way
Consultants Association and the
to help someone else. Generally this comes by letting someone Pacifi c Northwest Association of
merge in front of me. It makes their day and lightens my mood. College Admissions Counseling.
claudia@acollegeplan.com
Please share some of your personal favorite ways to re-frame
otherwise stressful situations and I will pass them along in future
issues. We are all in this together, so let’s share ways to make it
easier to endure.

Fred Nystrom

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