EP259 Set a target number of hours to work...and stick to it

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Teachers, Courses, Education, Teaching

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

You can decide this school year to find a sustainable approach to your workload.

How? By not trying to work until everything is done. It’s NEVER all going to be done, which means you’re always either going to be working or feel like you should be working.

Instead, I’m going to teach you a principle I share in the 40 Hour Workweek programs I run for teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders. It’s the Target Number Planner.

You can create a schedule in which you determine — at the start of each week — how much time you’re willing to spend on school stuff, and how you’re going to allocate those hours.

Choosing a target number of hours to work is not about perfection, it’s about intentionality. You’re simply deciding in advance how many hours you’d like to allocate to work, and being mindful of how your time is being used. This is the start of a mindset shift more than anything else, as you practice fitting work into your life instead of life into your work.

If you want support with setting and sticking to a target number, remember that the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Fast Track program is open to new members all year long.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 259 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.
0:08.0	I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak encouragement into the hearts of educators
0:13.0	and get you informed and energized for the week ahead.
0:16.0	Today I'm sharing how you can decide in advance how much you're willing to work in each
0:21.0	week ahead and allocate those hours in a productive way.
0:25.0	Visit truthforteachers.com to get an easy to read, easy to share version of this podcast.
0:29.0	I have been able to learn so much about productivity.
0:33.0	I feel that my workload is more manageable.
0:37.0	I was actually able to move from making my copies on a day-to-day basis to having things
0:42.0	for the entire next week ahead of time, sometimes even two weeks out.
0:45.0	Knowing what boundaries I can set and also knowing when it's okay to work and when it's
0:49.0	okay not to work and just take that time from me.
0:53.0	If you want support with setting and sticking to a target number,
0:57.0	remember that the 40-hour teacher work week fast track program is open to new members all year long.
1:05.0	Just go to 40htw.com to learn more.
1:11.0	We're kicking off season 16 of the podcast today and I'll be sharing an excerpt
1:16.0	from the 40-hour teacher work week program about setting a target number of hours.
1:21.0	I am actually recovering from COVID at the moment.
1:25.0	This was my first time getting it. I managed to go two and a half years without
1:29.0	but couldn't seem to avoid it this summer.
1:32.0	So as you probably hear, my voice still doesn't sound great and my throat gets sore and scratchy when I talk a lot.
1:39.0	So I pushed the start of the podcast season back for two weeks to allow more time for healing
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