Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers
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What happens when even looking at your to-do list makes you want to shut down? How do you get yourself re-energized when basic adulting feels like too much?
I’ve found it empowering to have a menu of choices — or a toolbox — I can go to when I experience those feelings. It’s a collection of strategies I can pick from which have worked in the past, so I can choose whichever one feels easiest to me at the time.
In this episode, I’m sharing 8 approaches that work for me:
Give yourself permission to stop doing and thinking Choose self-comfort or self-care Get out of your head and regain perspective Tap into your vision, legacy, and long term goals Dump the stress by planning and batching tasks Eliminate tasks and go back to basics Ease your way into productivity mode with quick wins Tackle the task that’s creating the most anxietyJoin us in October for an online book club and month of focusing on “fewer things better”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FewerThingsBetter/
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