EP122 Your #1 job when you don't feel motivated (don't stress over anything else!)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when you're just not motivated to get things done? Many of us try to force ourselves to be productive and slog through the day.
Today, I'll discuss how I'm experimenting with a different approach.
My #1 job — and yours — when we just don't feel motivated to get anything done, is to GET ourselves motivated to get things done. And that means taking a break from the to-do list to focus on things that get us energized is PART of your work and productivity, not a break from it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 122 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.4 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:11.9 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.0 | Today I'm going to share what I think is your number one job |
| 0:19.0 | when you don't feel motivated. |
| 0:22.0 | Visit truth for teachers |
| 0:22.8 | com to get the transcript links to recommended resources and to share your |
| 0:26.9 | thoughts on the show. This episode is brought to you by Screencastomatic. |
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| 0:39.9 | can record your lessons, capture a lecture, give students video assignments, all kinds of things |
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| 0:55.3 | subscription at screencastomatic.com slash teach. So normally from my podcast episodes I like to plan out exactly what I'm going to say |
| 1:06.0 | so that way I can keep things really tightly focused for you and make sure that I'm |
| 1:09.9 | covering all my main points without forgetting anything. |
| 1:13.0 | But I feel like switching things up a little bit today, |
| 1:16.0 | and I'm going to just speak to you off the cuff, |
| 1:18.0 | just speak to you straight from the heart in a way that's a little bit less polished |
| 1:21.0 | and a little less formal than I normally do for the podcast. And I'm doing that because, honestly, |
| 1:28.0 | I don't feel particularly motivated today to get this episode done. I love podcasting but you know it's sometimes it feels |
| 1:36.1 | like a grind because I have to keep cranking out the episodes a week after week and |
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