S3EP12 Stop overworking Future You: why NOW is the perfect time to make changes in your classroom
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 20 March 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
One of the big principles that we’re always coming back to in The 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club is that implementing small changes right away is more effective than hoping you’ll feel like implementing big changes later on. We often make the mistake of assuming that our future selves will somehow be less stressed and busy and more disciplined and productive, and therefore we’ll able to handle making positive changes LATER.
The problem with that logic is that those qualities of being less busy and more productive later don’t just happen on their own. This summer or next year only seem like they will be slightly less crazy than right now because all the unexpected interruptions, emergencies, and new obligations haven’t cropped up yet. Unless we’re actively taking steps now to set our future selves up for success, things really aren’t going to change very much.
In this episode, I'll share how to break that cycle, and embrace the fact that your willingness to adapt what you’re doing NOW has the ability to save you countless hours and immeasurable stress in the new school year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3 episode 12 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth |
| 0:11.0 | into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to share some thoughts on why right now, |
| 0:19.6 | midway through the school year, |
| 0:21.4 | is actually the perfect time to change up classroom |
| 0:24.4 | routines and try something new so you can save time and stress later. |
| 0:29.1 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, links to recommended resources, and to share |
| 0:35.2 | your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:38.9 | One of the big principles that we're always coming back to in the 40-hour Teacher Work Week Club is that implementing |
| 0:45.6 | small changes right away is more effective than hoping you'll feel like implementing big changes |
| 0:51.4 | later on. We as human beings, it's just our nature to make the |
| 0:56.4 | mistake of assuming that our future selves will somehow be less stressed and less busy and more disciplined and productive and therefore it will be able to handle |
| 1:07.1 | making positive changes later. |
| 1:10.5 | The problem with that logic is that those qualities of being less busy and more productive later The summer or next school year only seem like they'll be |
| 1:13.0 | less busy and more productive later |
| 1:15.0 | don't just happen on their own. |
| 1:17.0 | The summer or next school year only seem like they'll be slightly less crazy |
| 1:22.0 | than right now because of all the unexpected |
| 1:24.5 | interruptions and emergencies and new obligations that haven't cropped up yet. |
| 1:29.9 | Unless we're actively taking steps now to set our future selves up for success, things really |
| 1:36.5 | aren't going to change very much. |
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