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

This episode is going to be something new. Cue that song, Start of Something New from High School Musical. You all know what I'm talking about.

Bridget doesn't know. That's okay.

Bridget and I are going to be chatting and just giving you a life update and we're going to share kind of some behind the scenes info for like our personal productivity. Like what's going on?

What are we struggling with? What are we doing well? Yeah. And we're going to change things up just a

little bit because we are each going

to share a time-sucking hurdle in this episode. Okay, which I forgot that we were doing this,

but something came to mind immediately. We are good to go. Okay, well, I'm going to share mine first.

So this was a recent, like recent as in last night.

So Michelle does not know about this.

Well, she kind of does because I messaged her earlier.

So a recent time-sucking hurdle for me is going to be taxes.

I spent, I'm not even joking, Michelle, a good like four to six hours.

It's a big range because I really don't know how long it took.

It felt like the whole night when I was supposed to be doing something else that was on my list,

working on figuring out how to do a form for taxes.

I am not smart enough. I ended up crying. I was stressed. I know.

It was terrible. I was overwhelmed. I to the point like my stress got so bad. I was yelling at people in

my house, which is not like me at all. I don't like get so upset where I'm yelling

at someone. Yeah. Um, so it was just a horrible thing. Thank gosh. It was like nine o'clock,

I think, that we finally figured it out. And we got it done. So I'm thankful for that. And the main reason is is because,

and it's just, you know, as a business owner, you have so many things that you're doing with

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