Hey guys, what is up? It is Michaela from MichaelaJ.com. I have a blog, a podcast, travel planning

business, and now I am also a retreat host. Thanks for joining me. Happy Friday and let's get into

the story time. So this week's theme is all about time management. And if you miss the first episode, go back to

Tuesday where I kind of broke down the importance of it and what this will look like in our lives.

Today's story time and tomorrow will be strategy Saturday. So we'll talk all about how to

implement it into your life. But for our story time, I want to throw it back to my high school

years before I became a master of my time. Okay, so this might come at a surprise to some of you,

especially if you've just known me in college. In high school, I was not a morning person. I was horrible waking up

on time. For two years, I was cheer captain, and we would have practice at 6 a.m. during the summer,

and sometimes I would miss, like, an hour of practice because I would not wake up to my alarms

whatsoever. I would set like 10 alarms and you know your girl will still

sound asleep. What can you do? So at my high school, your senior year, you don't have to take a

full schedule of classes and you're allowed to have late ends and early outs. So knowing myself,

I do not flourish in the morning. I definitely was going to have late ends and I wanted early out so I could go to work

right after school.

So I had one late in, a double early out for a semester.

And second semester, I really wanted the double late in, but I had to take one more class.

Like it was required that you have that many so you're still

technically full time. And I ended up aiding for a teacher, which is like kind of when you're just

a student helper, teacher helper. You just assist the teacher with whatever they need, whether it's

stapling papers, printing things. So essentially, it's just helping with

whatever that teacher needs. And one of my favorite teachers, who's basically a second mom to me,

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