EP271 What could be possible if you aimed for B+ work?
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
“Just do your best” is not always helpful advice for perfectionists, people-pleasers, and folks struggling with anxiety.
The phrase is meant to offer comfort, but can create pressure, because you know what your best looks like, and how much time and effort it involves!
The truth is: you can’t possibly give your best effort to everything on your plate, and not everything you need to do deserves your best effort.
What if you only aimed for A+ work on the most important stuff in life and work, and aimed for B+ work in everything else?
You might be thinking, “This is an interesting concept, Angela, but my brain doesn’t work that way. I can’t give less than 100%.”
This podcast episode will give you 5 things to remember in order to really internalize healthier expectations for yourself so that you can decide where to focus your time and energy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 271 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host, Angela Watson and I'm here to speak encouragement into the hearts of educators and get you informed and energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:14.0 | Today I'm talking about what it looks like to settle for B-plus work. |
| 0:20.0 | Visit truthforteachers.com to get an easy to read, easy to share version of this podcast episode. |
| 0:31.0 | In place of a sponsor message today, I'd like to make a request from you, especially if you're a long-time listener or supporter of my work. |
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| 1:13.0 | So a huge thanks to everyone who has done this who are so appreciated and if you haven't yet, I would love if you did. |
| 1:21.0 | I used to think that I was a perfectionist. I worried about the smallest things. |
| 1:27.0 | I could not let other people see my work unless it was my very best. |
| 1:32.0 | I fredded about typos and minor errors and was mortified when other people saw them. |
| 1:37.0 | I needed everything I did to be outstanding. |
| 1:42.0 | And then I realized that wasn't really perfectionism. It was anxiety. |
| 1:47.0 | It became much easier for me to relax about little details and not take everything so seriously when I addressed my anxiety. |
| 1:55.0 | I discussed this in episode 2.13. It's called the breaking point that led to my sabbatical. |
| 2:01.0 | So if you want to hear more, check out episode 2.13. |
| 2:04.0 | When I really started dealing with the fact that I had anxiety and treating it, I was able to focus on just doing my best and putting in the time and effort that I could reasonably give. |
| 2:15.0 | I was able to allow for some mistakes and not be embarrassed by them. |
| 2:20.0 | I would thank the person for pointing out something that I had left out or gotten wrong, make the correction to my work and mentally move on. |
| 2:28.0 | No big anxiety attack, no sleepless nights worried I'd done something wrong or let people down. |
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