EP140 Five habits that help me automate & simplify my life
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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By now, you've probably heard me talk a lot about strategies for work-life balance and productivity as a teacher. Join me today in this episode of the Truth for Teachers podcast where I personally reflect on what those principles look like in this season of life currently.
I'll share five choices I've made that are essentially habits now, and they help me to automate and simplify my life. Hopefully, it will give you some ideas about ways that you can do the same in order to focus on your biggest priorities!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 140 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.3 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and |
| 0:12.2 | hearts of educators and get you energized for the week |
| 0:14.9 | ahead. Today I'm going to share five habits that helped me simplify and automate my |
| 0:20.0 | life so that I can focus on what really matters to me. |
| 0:24.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to ask a question or to share your thoughts in the comments. |
| 0:30.3 | This episode is brought to you by Brainson. It's an award-winning podcast from American public media that's dedicated to inspiring kids natural curiosity about the world. |
| 0:40.0 | The Brainson podcast has over 100 episodes covering real science topics, including everything from why people have allergies to how electricity works. |
| 0:48.5 | And now, Brainson is offering free standards-based curriculum and activities for educators that will go with each one of their |
| 0:55.4 | episodes. You can learn more and download their free teacher resources at Brainson.org |
| 1:01.4 | slash Learn. So longtime listeners of this podcast have probably heard me talk a lot |
| 1:06.8 | about strategies for work life balance and just sort of holding everything together, productivity as a teacher. |
| 1:14.0 | This episode is going to be a little bit different |
| 1:17.0 | because it's basically just a personal reflection on what those principles look like in my life right now in this season of my life. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm going to share five choices that I have made which are essentially habits for me now. |
| 1:30.0 | These help me simplify and automate things and hopefully it will give you some ideas |
| 1:34.4 | about ways that you can do the same. So the first thing is that I prioritize simplicity in my lifestyle choices and I'll say up front that I |
| 1:46.1 | intentionally delayed parenthood. I don't have kids at this point my husband and I |
| 1:51.1 | just started trying within the last two years. So we're |
| 1:56.4 | hoping that it will still happen for us, but I feel good about my decision to |
| 2:01.0 | wait this long in my life. There were things that I wanted to get settled first and honestly I don't think I would have been able to be present as a mom for my children if I'd had them younger in life. I just knew myself. I knew that I needed time to focus on me, on my career, on my marriage. |
| 2:19.7 | I just needed to do those things first. |
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