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. A new month means a new mini-series. If you've been following us

for the past couple of months, we've been focusing on time management and organization

and how to build effective habits in each of those areas. This month, we're jumping into

productivity. And today, we want to share some of our biggest productivity struggles.

Because trust me, we have them. But first, let's hear a TSAH from Renee. Renee says her time-sucking hurdle is searching for new,

better resources on teachers pay teachers online and spending lots of time looking for all the

materials. I do have trying to decide what to use. Y'all, I'm just reading it the way it's written,

okay? I often am not

planned and ready for my intervention groups because I spend all my time trying to decide what to use

or searching for better things to help my students. It causes lots of anxiety because I am not ready for

the day, but I can't seem to break this cycle. Please help. Yeah, Renee, I think a lot of people feel this way sometimes.

But I think you have to have a plan before heading into online. I see like online as a big department store.

Like I and please just note, I hate shopping. So for me going into a department store, it can be really, really overwhelming. You have to decide on

what you need before jumping into teachers, pay teachers, or else you're going to get caught up in

this big rabbit hole. So decide on the focus and the objective that you have first. Use your

standards to help align what you're doing and then just go from there. That's so funny because in my head,

I was thinking about how this reminds me of Target and how you don't know what you're going in there

for, like you will leave with a bunch of things you didn't know you needed. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah,

I think Bridget hit the hail, hit the hail on the head, hit the nail on the head. You have to know exactly what you're looking for.

I do know what you're referring to, though. I think sometimes you go on to a website like TPT and you

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