EP168 Tell yourself a better story this school year
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 4 August 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The new school year is a fresh start, and the perfect time to let go of old stories and thought patterns that aren't serving you well. You can examine the stories you're telling yourself to see if they're really true, and decide if the stories you're choosing are making your work feel more or less stressful.
In this episode, you'll learn how to train yourself to differentiate between the facts and the story you're telling yourself about the facts. When you get locked into one story, practice asking yourself, "What else might be true about this situation? What might be happening that I haven't considered yet?" Through this process, you can choose the stories that help you rather than discourage you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 168 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:07.0 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:12.3 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.0 | Today I'm going to share how to examine the stories you're telling yourself and choose a story that serves you better this school year. |
| 0:24.4 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript and links to recommended |
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| 0:40.5 | subject areas for K-12 teachers. |
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| 1:01.3 | so welcome back to our regularly scheduled education programming. I hope you have enjoyed listening to the special summer series where we took a break from talking about teaching. I enjoyed sharing that with you so much. I am so |
| 1:15.0 | excited also just to be back and to be planning out a new season for you and |
| 1:20.4 | talking about teaching again. I find that when I take a break from education |
| 1:23.8 | related topics, so many new ideas come to me and I'm so inspired. I actually have this entire |
| 1:29.3 | season mapped out already. Interviews lined up everything because my creative juices are just |
| 1:35.2 | flowing after this break. So thanks for letting me take a break from talking about |
| 1:39.2 | teaching stuff over the summer. It really just rejuvenated me. I also want you to know that I started a new |
| 1:45.5 | private Facebook group that will serve as our Truth for Teachers podcast community. So in this new group you will get an inside look behind the scenes of the |
| 1:54.8 | podcast you'll get to vote on future topics and guests you'll have special access |
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