EP243 Reclaim your weeknights by balancing the "task triangle" (with Marissa Minnick)

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

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🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Although each day holds the same 24 hours, there is something that we have come to accept as being innately different between "5:00pm on a Friday" compared to "5:00pm on a Wednesday."

Not only is it untrue that the weekend is the only time to exhale after the impact of the workweek, but this also skirts around an important truth: The way that we choose to spend a weeknight has a more immediate impact on our ability to renew ourselves the next day than a weekend sprint of self-care.

In this episode, my guest (middle school teacher Marissa Minnick) shares how thinking about your tasks as belonging to a sort of task triangle can help. The task triangle includes space for activities that attend to your immediate self, your future self, and your sense of self. Marissa's found that her productivity and energy soar the next workday when she's taken time to invest in that third portion of the task triangle.

Listen in as Marissa shares 4 tips for balancing the task triangle and using your weeknights to dedicate time for things that help you feel re-energized.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 243 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.
0:06.1	I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement and truth into
0:11.5	the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.
0:15.9	Today I'm talking with Marissa Minick about how to reclaim your weeknights by balancing
0:21.1	the task triangle.
0:23.3	Visit truthforteachers.com to see the short, shareable blog post version of this article.
0:30.6	With everything you're juggling right now, free lessons and resources can be a big
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1:00.7	Join the community now by going to everyteachereveryday.org forward slash truth for teachers.
1:07.2	That's everyteachereveryday.org forward slash truth for teachers.
1:12.9	If your co-workers are burning out and overwhelmed and your administrators feel helpless to do
1:17.6	anything about it, your school's not alone.
1:21.3	Let your administrators know about the 40 hour leadership program.
1:25.2	It's a new offshoot of my 40 hour teacher work week course that is designed to create
1:29.7	change at the school level, helping everyone in the building to stay focused on what really
1:34.3	makes a difference for kids and streamline or eliminate the rest.
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