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. If you are a longtime follower, then you know how much we

love talking about habits on this podcast. Why? Well, because habits help us achieve goals

and decrease stress. But we've never really chatted about why habits are so hard to stick with.

So in this episode, we want to share some of the reasons that you might be having a consistent

conundrum. That was a tongue twister.

I'm proud of you for getting through that.

I did a great job on that one.

First, let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Lexi, who says, my TSH is not sticking

with a quote-unquote routine long enough to get through the initial bumps and or think something will work better.

So I feel like I'm constantly reinventing the wheel.

Oh my gosh. Lexi, I feel like I, you and me were like spirit animals together because this is

probably one of the things that I struggle with because I'm like, oh, there's like something new and better.

I get like the shiny object syndrome thing that goes on.

And it's like, I'm going to move on to this.

So it's almost as if you have to do like a little pep talk to yourself.

And this is something that just kind of works for me, is that I have to tell myself,

nope, I need to give it a month.

I need to give it one month, just keep sticking with it, keep moving forward.

And then after that month, I can say whether it's working for me or it's not working for me and I could go back to reinventing the wheel.

And the reason I started doing this was actually because I wanted a tattoo a long time ago.

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