122. How to Overcome Your Productivity Mistakes

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

WOW! We’ve accomplished an entire month dissecting productivity and how we can build effective habits to help us increase our overall productivity. As a reminder of all the juicy episodes we’ve shared so far this month we are sharing a small snapshot of the episode below: Episode 119. Learn From Our Mistakes: Our BIGGEST Productivity Struggles Episode 120. Real Talk and Tough Love: Let’s Chat About Our Productivity Episode 121. Productivity Habits Every Teacher Should Build But we know that even with all the information we have shared on productivity it can still be challenging to figure out why you are still feeling overwhelmed and stressed. In this episode we are sharing some common productivity mistakes that you might be making and the simple solutions to help fix them. In this episode we will share: How to make your habits obvious to increase productivity and stick to your goals. How creating separate to-do lists will help keep you focused for the day versus hopping from one task to another. How to make your tasks attractive so that you can stop making excuses and get excited about getting your to-dos finished Why finding the perfect accountability buddy is important! How you can start making tasks easier for you to get the biggest bang for your buck! Why celebrating your successes is important for continuing your productivity. 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,
0:05.3	and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,
0:09.9	and productivity as a teacher. As Hannah Montana once said, everybody makes mistakes.
0:15.9	So in today's episode, we are going to talk about how to overcome your productivity mistakes. Bridget is laughing at me.
0:22.9	She did a great job with that, guys. I just want to note that there is nothing on this page
0:27.9	for what she's going to say. And she just literally made that up on the spot. I panicked for a
0:33.6	second because I'm like, oh, I never filled out like the little intro. And I was like,
0:37.9	Hannah Montana comes through every time. She certainly does apparently. Okay, but before we jump in,
0:44.2	we're going to hear a T.S.H from Erin C from Metro Detroit. That was really hard for me to get out.
0:53.3	So Aaron C says, my time-sucking hurdle is that on Thursday
0:56.8	and Friday, my prep time is the last period of the day. By that time, my desk is a mess and I'm exhausted,
1:03.3	so I spend my break sitting and staring at the walls, even though I have papers to grade,
1:07.8	emails to answer, and a desk to straighten up. Any ideas for how to get
1:12.6	to the end of the day without wanting to collapse from exhaustion and overwhelm? Love the podcast
1:19.1	and haven't missed a single episode. Bridgett, you might not understand this reference because I
1:24.4	know you haven't been on Instagram as much, but there's a real sound
1:27.9	and it goes, come on brain. Think of things. Come on brain. Be so smart. And that's what it made me think
1:34.8	of. So thank you so much, Erin. We really appreciate you following along with our podcast and we're
1:39.8	happy that it's been helpful for you. I completely understand the problem that you're having.
1:44.6	When I taught second grade, one of my specials was at the end of the day. So I have been there.
1:49.5	But I know Bridget has her prep time at the end of the day currently. So I know she will have some
1:54.7	great advice. Honestly, from my experience, the days when I wasn't productive during my prep time,
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