Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.

Today's episode is the conclusion to our mini-series all about building habits for the new year. And I have to say, Michelle, I think this is one of my favorite

mini series right next to when we did it on teacher burnouts. Yes. It's a good one. So back in episode

106, habits we are building this year, we shared a personal and professional habit that Michelle and I

are just working to build. And today, we're going to share the

progress and how our habit building is going. All the juicy stuff is about to get shared.

I was literally about to say that. I'm like, it's going to be juicy. Yeah, it is. But first,

let's hear a TSA from Jennifer. Jennifer says her time-sucking hurdle is paper piles.

I struggle with out-of-sight, out of mind. And as a result, I end up with paper piles all over my

workspace, papers to grade, papers to look at later, papers to file, etc. For this reason, using the

stirlight drawers that so many teachers love gives me anxiety. Thanks to file, et cetera. For this reason, using the stirlight drawers that so many teachers love

gives me anxiety. Thanks to you both, I use and love Google Keep for to-do lists. Can I somehow

incorporate that to get rid of my piles? Help. Yeah, I will say, Jennifer, I think about one of,

like, my first productivity books that I read several

years ago and it literally changed my life forever. So David Allen is the author of getting things done

and he talks about having a system for catching and I'm putting that in quotes, like all of the

papers that you have in a day. So this is what I refer to as like my inbox in my classroom. So I use

paper sorter that I got from IKEA to do this in my classroom. And like literally I still use this

system. I've been using it for years and years and years and it's like perfect because the sterolite

boxes just like you, they stress me out and I can't do them. But from there, what you have to do

is you kind of have to train yourself to sort through your papers each day. So this is like a

routine that you're going to build in that, you know, every afternoon. You will determine three

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