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Digital Planning, Productivity, Tech Tools, Time Management

How the Notion App Can Really Increase Your Productivity

June 26, 2022 No Comments

As someone who LOVES learning about how to be more productive and how to refine my systems, I take notice of recurring tools. One tool that kept popping up in my feeds on Instagram and Facebook was the Notion app and web-based platform. I looked into it and immediately dismissed it because I already had a system in place that worked for me. Here’s the deal though, if you’ve read my post about checking your systems, you know that you really do need to check your systems often. If you don’t know what I mean by systems, check out this […]

Productivity, Teaching, Time Management

7 Things Teachers Can Do During Summer Break to Ensure a Stress-Free Fall

June 6, 2022 No Comments

Person sitting on iPad at the side of the pool

Let’s be absolutely honest here… teachers work during summer break. Yes, we don’t have to teach children, but all teachers do things for school over summer break. If you didn’t, it would be like a freight train was hitting you that first day back. Now, I’m not saying that you need to log a million hours instead of hitting the pool. There are a few things, however, that will help you start the year without stress (or as little as possible). Reflect on the year before. Figure out any automated or simple running lists/items that you can regularly contribute to. […]

Daily Routines, How Tos, Productivity, Time Management

How a Time Diary Helped Me See Where I Was Wasting Time

May 9, 2022 No Comments

If you read my last post, you will know that I tried keeping a time diary for a week. This has been eye-opening! If you haven’t read the initial post, check it out here. This time I’m back to share what I learned and where I was wasting time! Sitting down to analyze this log was awesome and humbling. There were a lot of things that I learned. I am putting it all out here for you today in hopes that you will try this for a week too. Let me tell you my main takeaways from my personal time […]

Daily Routines, How Tos, Productivity, Time Management

How to Use a Time Diary to Help Create More Time in Your Life

May 1, 2022 No Comments

Let’s be honest. How many times in the last month have you said the words “I don’t have time for…”? That thought is one of the main reasons I started this blog. The truth is that we do have time and this idea of time management is totally false. Well, it isn’t false so much as it is all a matter of how you look at things. Creating more time for your life is all about choices. I’m absolutely learning more about this with the time diary I started this week. 168 Hours This post is inspired by Laura Vanderkam’s […]

How Tos, Productivity, Time Management

How To Effectively Do a Brain Dump: An Amazing Productivity Hack

April 23, 2022 No Comments

Do you ever have a moment where you realize that you have so much to do and you have absolutely no idea what any of those things are? Or, my personal favorite… you have all the things to do, but you’re so overwhelmed by all of it that you sit on the couch and binge Netflix instead? An effective brain dump will help you get over that feeling! All of us do this at one time or another. We become forgetful. We feel overwhelmed. Sometimes we just shut down because we feel like we have so much to do and […]

Daily Routines, Goals, Habits, Productivity, Time Management

How Productivity Systems Can Absolutely Help When You Feel Stressed and Overwhelmed

March 18, 2022 No Comments

The last two weeks sucked. Have you ever had a couple of weeks in a row where you feel like you are being pulled in a million directions? You didn’t overschedule yourself… it kind of just happened that your husband’s birthday, school events, the CrossFit Open, and several other things all landed in the same two-week time frame. I was totally overwhelmed. By Thursday the second week in, I was leaving work early because I felt sick. My body betrays me, haha. I don’t know if anyone else is like this, but I was totally fine. I was still getting […]

Daily Routines, Freebie, Goals, Habits, Productivity, Time Management

The One Productivity and Time Management Tip You Need for Ultimate Success

March 2, 2022 2 Comments

Productivity and Time Management Tip Computer and ipad with Calendar

You’ve read it all. You have a Pinterest board full of tips and ideas to help you become more productive. Crap, I’ve devoted an entire blog to this stuff. I’m being absolutely honest with you here… putting it out there for all to read. You might not need to read any of the other stuff if you understand this one major productivity and time management tip. My husband actually said it best. He is a total type A, no-nonsense guy. He is also a teacher. I was trying to better myself. However, I am a slightly disorganized and creative spirit. […]

Daily Routines, Freebie, Habits, Productivity, Time Management

3 Top Time Management Techniques For You to Try

February 22, 2022 No Comments

Do you feel like you have a hard time keeping up with life? Do you have a million tasks on your list and feel like you never have enough time to get them done? You are in the majority. I’ve got stuff. There are lots of things that I have to accomplish in a given week and there are times that I might think it’s a lot, but I have the systems in place to help me get everything done. I like to think I am not in the majority. To help you climb out of the “I’m so busy” […]

Daily Routines, Digital Planning, Habits, Productivity, Time Management

Do You Feel Like You Can’t Get Anything Done? Check Your Systems!

February 7, 2022 No Comments

woman upset at computer trying to get things done

You check your list of things to do at the end of the day and realize that you crossed off one or two things, but you added another 5 to the list. You think about something else you need to get done while you’re working on one project. The stress of getting things done is becoming too much. You plan and plan. However, you still feel like you’ve got a million things lost in the shuffle. Does any of the above sound familiar? I know that I’ve absolutely been there. I want to let you in on a little secret […]

Habits, How Tos, Productivity, Time Management

5 Big Distractions From Productivity and How to Win Against Them

January 9, 2022 No Comments

woman with her head in hands with though bubble saying "how is this all going to get done?"

We have all been there. Honestly, my life as a teacher is an endless loop of constant distractions. You sit down with the best intentions to get stuff done. A coworker comes in the chat about something. You take a moment to check your email and it turns into 30 minutes you didn’t expect. You click on a link while you are researching something and then go down the Alice in Wonderland hole of the “interwebs.” There are plenty of people, the majority of the world, in fact, that can’t focus. Distractions suck. They are a big deal and can […]

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