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.

We've all been through the times when we have so much happening around us, whether it's personal or professional, and we just can't cope with doing all of the things.

We want to share how you can get through the times of exhaustion without doing it all,

because let's be real, that's just impossible.

But first, let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Constance.

Constance says, hi, ladies, I'm a preschool teacher

and adore my job.

However, I recently moved an hour away from school

and have now found that I lack the motivation

to organize anything in my classroom.

I used to be the organization guru,

but with so much going on in my personal life,

particularly my move, I find I just want to set up so much going on in my personal life, particularly my move,

I find I just want to set up for the following day in my class and be done. How can I gain back

my motivation to organize? What do you both do when this happens to you? Thanks. I think definitely

this episode is going to be for you, Constance. However, I would have you think about,

like, what are those materials that you're utilizing? Like, what does your system really, really

look like? Because if it isn't easy for you to be able to quickly put something away, because it

should, what, take no more than five seconds, would you say, to put something away? Typically,

like, it should take you

no time at all. You might want to reconsider, like, how do you have things organized or how are you

getting them ready for the day so that it makes it so much more efficient for you to put things back?

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