161. BOOK REVIEW: Getting Things Done (Our Honest Thoughts)

Teaching to the TOP

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Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	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.
0:12.9	As you all know this month, we've been reading and implementing the strategies from the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen.
0:20.2	In this episode, we want to share our book
0:22.4	review and our honest thoughts of the strategies from this book. But first, let's hear a time-sucking
0:29.0	hurdle from a top teacher. This top teacher says, my TSAH is getting discouraged during my
0:35.7	planning period on days where I am feeling extra tired,
0:39.8	overwhelmed, or distracted, which I'm just going to put in a little sidebar here.
0:43.3	I feel like that's every day for most teachers.
0:45.1	But I tend to start off on the wrong foot during my planning period.
0:49.3	Once I've gotten off track, I feel discouraged and waste time sighing dramatically instead of working.
0:56.8	Yeah. I have to tell you that this was me a lot of the times when it came to my planning period
1:03.3	prior to the school that I'm currently at because I feel like I don't really get very many planning
1:08.0	periods. It varies day to day, guys. But before my planning period was at the
1:13.9	very end of the day. And as you all know, one, I don't function at the end of the day. Two,
1:18.5	it's really, really hard to be focused when you know you're about to leave at the end of the day.
1:24.2	So here is my recommendation. I recommend that you don't do the heavy lifting during your
1:30.6	planning period time. If you find that you're kind of in that same boat as I was where it's just
1:36.2	not a great time for you to get things done. Like you can't focus, you can't do much with it.
1:41.5	Stop putting the biggest pieces that you need to get done during that time.
1:45.6	Like, is there a time when you can fit it in somewhere else? Like, for instance, for me,
1:50.6	I'm very much a morning person. And so I would get to school either 30 or 40 minutes early.
1:55.8	That way, I could get all my heavy work done early and then I didn't have to worry about it later on.
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