118. How To Overcome Your Organizational Mistakes

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Organization can be challenging. From defining a space to maintaining it, organization is sometimes the last thing on our to-do list, but the one area in our life that can make the biggest impact. This month we’ve been focusing all on organization! You can check out the last two episodes in this mini-series to get caught up! Episode 114. Learn From Our Mistakes: Our BIGGEST Organizational Struggles Episode 116. Organization Habits Every Teacher Should Build Most issues related to organization have to deal with the clutter filling our space or not having a system to actually keep related items together. In today’s episode we are sharing how you can overcome the organizational mistakes that you might be making. In this episode we share: We have to make organizational systems more obvious so that we want to use them We have to make organization attractive so that we enjoy the process of organizing We have to make organization easy so that it reduces friction We have to make organization satisfying so that we want to keep doing it again and again SUBMIT YOUR TIME SUCKING HURDLE! We want to know what is sucking up all of your time either as a teacher or just a person. Head over to our website and submit your TSH so that you can have a chance to be featured on the podcast! 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 Emerson. And Bridget Spackman.
0:08.3	You're just going to keep going. I'm so sorry. I am so sorry. I could not help. I don't know why that
0:14.4	laugh came out right now. And Bridget Spackman. And we're here to make your life easier by helping you
0:19.8	master your time, organization,
0:21.7	and productivity as a teacher, and we're doing it with a laugh. You know, old us would have
0:27.4	re-recorded that and new us were just like, nope, you get what you get. Don't pitch a fit.
0:33.1	Exactly. If you have been following our mini series this year, you already know what today's
0:38.6	episode is. We are sharing strategies for overcoming your organizational mistakes.
0:45.2	Yeah. Before we share some of those strategies, we are going to hear a TSA from Morgan. Morgan says,
0:52.0	I'm a student teacher and I currently live at home with my parents. I have
0:55.8	absolutely no space to spread out and work that is free of distractions. I have a very small
1:01.8	desk in my bedroom, but because of my lack of storage space, my desk ends up with a major
1:07.0	clutter, which makes it so difficult to accomplish any work. Whether that be lesson planning
1:12.2	or university work, it makes it so frustrating to try to do anything productive. And I usually
1:18.3	end up feeling overwhelmed. And then rush later on because, and then rush later on because I haven't
1:25.8	accomplished anything. Did I read that right? Yeah, she was saying, and then she rushes later on because I haven't accomplished anything.
1:27.5	Did I read that right?
1:28.5	Yeah, she was saying and then she rushes later on because she hasn't accomplished.
1:32.6	Yeah.
1:33.3	And then rush later on.
1:35.1	First of all, Morgan, I completely get it.
1:37.6	Organization certainly becomes more challenging when the space is small.
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