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.

It's time to get productive. In today's episode, we are going to share six habits related to productivity that we believe every teacher needs to build.

But first, let's hear a TSAH or time-sucking hurdle from Sarah Lee.

I thought of bread. Did you think of bread?

Now I do.

Okay.

All right. Sarah Lee says, I feel like I'm giving all that I can, and then in parentheses,

which this year is less than it

used to be. And still at times get overwhelmed by the feeling of failure. I end up getting

down on myself and my TOP or top time management organization productivity, just plugging that in

there, shortcomings, and then lose the momentum I'm building when I feel strong and capable. How do I keep

the momentum in these times of feeling down on myself? Listen, I feel like we all have feelings of failure.

I mean, times can be challenging, but that does not mean that you are a failure. It means that

you're just going through a rough patch,

which, I mean, we all have experience from time to time. You might need to just reevaluate what

you have going on and work on just simplifying things right now. I know that this has just really

helped me personally as well. This means saying no to people and things that you have on your

plate. It might also mean that you need to cut back on what you are doing in the classroom and be

okay with not having like the fancy activities and the over the top lessons. This is a time to

focus on yourself and getting things back in order so that you can feel successful

again. Strip it all back and decide on what is important. When you start to feel like you have a

handle on things again, you can start to add things on slowly. And this is, I think, something I'm

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