Staring down 20, 30, 40 individual tasks can be great for assessing what needs doing, but it can lead to total overwhelm. It’s time to stop your to-do list from overwhelming your life. … More How to stop your to-do list overwhelming your brain
Preparing healthy, hearty meals is hard work. Doing that as a teacher is even harder, and it’s so easy to devolve into junk food. What if there was another way? What if you could get everything done during the day and still have time to kill it in the kitchen? … More Reclaim your evenings: A Busy Teacher’s Guide to Healthy Meal prep
Mid-Year Audits aren’t about judgement or regret. They’re not about realising that you’ve not done something right, but instead about taking stock and making sure that you spend the rest of the year getting something right. … More The mid-year audit: how to course-correct for your most productive year yet
What are the core feature that keeps me coming back to this Second Brain over any other service? And why should you add it to your workflow in 2025? … More OneNote as a Second Brain: My Workflow for Maximum Productivity
I’ll walk you through six simple steps to take control of your life, set meaningful goals, and give you a set of actionable steps to actually achieve them. … More How to Plan Your Life Effectively
Here’s how you can stick to your New Year’s Resolutions with quarterly goals, and how I’m using them to fine-tune my own goal-setting system. … More Creating and keeping New Year’s Resolutions with Quarterly Goals
I want 2025 to be the best year of my life, and I’m sure that you want the same for yourself, too. There are three actionable steps that I’m taking to ensure that 2025 is the best year of my life: reflection, goal setting, and consistent action. … More How to Make 2025 the Best Year of Your Life: 3 Steps to Transform Your Year
In the five years that I’ve been teaching, I’ve noticed a massive rise in the term ‘toxic productivity’. It’s emerged as a significant challenge, regardless of your job, where the relentless pursuit of productivity can actually hinder wellbeing. Here are some strategies about embracing positive downtime instead. … More Are you suffering from Toxic Productivity or Embracing Positive Downtime?
To help you to maintain a healthy work-life balance, and to keep you in the classroom longer, take a look at these practical tips to avoid burnout. … More Tips to Avoid Burnout for a Secondary School Teacher
Who doesn’t love to share what they’ve been up to all month? Here are my favourites from May 2024 – from my savings and insights to my writing progress and reading recommendations. Take a look if you’re curious. … More Monthly Favourites – May 2024
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