Creating a Morning Routine in Your Classroom to Have a Great Day of Teaching

Posts about morning routines are all over the internet. Here on Creating Time For Life I have one about some great habits to try in your morning routine and one about my personal morning routine as well. You are your habits! Starting your day off with a morning routine is essential for your well-being. With that said, wouldn’t it be wise to create a classroom morning routine as well? Yes, it would. Most definitely it would be amazing! Teaching is super unpredictable. The funny thing about that statement though, is that to be the most successful, you need to be […]

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How the Notion App Can Really Increase Your Productivity

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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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. […]

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3 Top Time Management Techniques For You to Try

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” […]

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How to Build Productivity and Time Management Systems for Success

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Systems are the key to success.  They help you create time for the important things in both your work and personal life.  Putting systems in place will help you with time management and productivity more than anything else. The Pareto Principle is the 80/20 rule that basically means that 80% of outcomes result from 20% of causes.  In other words, our biggest gains come from our 20%.  This applies to our time a lot in this day and age.  80% of our time is emails, mindless distractions, repetitive tasks, etc.  The actual work that needs to get done is only […]

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