043. The Secret to Staying Positive During Tough Times

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

2020 has been a trying year for so many people and in so many ways. During times of uncertainty, frustration, and constant change your mindset can struggle to be positive on any given day. We have also felt a level of sadness and irritation this year, but we have also found strategies and coping mechanisms that have aided us to stay afloat and get things done. In this episode we are sharing our struggles with staying positive but also what has worked for us. Bridget’s Struggles Michelle’s Struggles What Worked for Bridget What Worked for Michelle The commonality is knowing and re-embracing our WHY. For so many of us the why behind becoming a teacher was to make an impact in our students’ lives. They are WHY we come to work, WHY we bury ourselves in professional development and creating lessons. Know your WHY. Embrace your why and you will find that you are able to get through just about anything. Find our Digital Teacher Planner at TeachingontheDouble.com SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your hosts, Michelle Farray. And Bridget Spackman, and we are here to make
0:07.2	your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:13.4	Listen, today we are going to be sharing our secret for staying positive during the tough times,
0:22.8	because these are certainly some tough times, And it's normal to feel negative right now, but we can't dwell on that. So today's episode is all
0:29.5	about how you can kind of change your mindset and look at things in a more positive light.
0:35.3	Yeah, that's a really big one, like having a growth mindset throughout all of
0:38.7	this. But first, let's go ahead and hear TSAH from Nicole. And Nicole says her time-sucking hurdle is
0:45.5	worrying. I'm a first-year teacher in COVID time and my kids are in the building. My first week
0:51.9	did not go well. I try to reflect on the day, but I get upset because
0:55.8	there are certain things that I cannot change. I spend more time trying to cheer myself up instead of
1:03.0	working on what is in my control. But it doesn't make me feel better. So I'm still sad and unprepared for
1:10.3	school the next day. And it becomes a cycle of
1:13.1	worrying and not getting anything done. Nicole, I think there are so many teachers that are out there
1:18.2	that are feeling the exact same way that you are. Yeah, Nicole, I was going to say what you just
1:24.6	described, I think, is how pretty much every teacher is feeling,
1:28.5	whether they're teaching in person, hybrid, virtual, it doesn't matter. We all have these same
1:33.2	feelings. And I think overwhelmingly, we are all feeling very negative because there are so many
1:39.2	things to feel negative about. And like we said, we just can't dwell on it. And that's the reason we decided to do
1:47.2	this podcast is because we have to find ways to overcome it. We can't just keep making excuses and
1:53.6	focusing on the negative. We have to make improvements and make things better. Yeah. And at the end of
1:58.9	the day, listen, none of us wouldn't be doing what we're doing right now, right? We never signed up to go into teaching and do it the way that we are right now.
2:07.1	And yeah, it sucks. I mean, I will tell my students that this sucks. Like, I don't want to do it this way.
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