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
For a while now, I’ve been trying to hack my body and environment to give me the best sleep of my life, since getting the right amount of quality sleep is known to set you up well for the day ahead. To sleep better, I tried out orange-tinted glasses for 30 days so that you don’t have to. … More I tried orange-tinted glasses for 30 days to improve my sleep
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?
I recently listened to Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, who was in conversation with Nir Eyal, author of the book Indistractable, whose comments on distraction really resonated with me. Here’s a whistle-stop guide to distractions, discipline, and some actionable steps at the end to help you to stay focused. … More How to become indistractible and stay focused
I’ve already given you 6 digital strategies that I’ve tried out in my own classroom, so why not 5 more that have succeeded in powering up my learners? Who knows; they might power up yours, too. … More 5 more strategies for your classroom
I’ve put together three simple strategies to ensure you can get the most out of your evenings – and to make sure that your time is finally yours. … More How to take back your evenings
What is it really like for a teacher to return to the classroom after six wonderful weeks off? These are my thoughts on the first two weeks of the new term. It’s perfect reading if you need to compare your workload or want an insight into how much you’ll be doing as an ECT. … More A day in the life of a teacher after 6 weeks off
Japanese isn’t easy, and I won’t be fluent by the time I go, but here’s the 4-step approach that I’m taking to learn some key words and phrases. … More The 4-step method to easily learn Japanese before your trip to Tokyo
Here are the most productive things that you can spend your summer doing as a teacher. I’ve broken this into two halves, with some actionable steps in the second half of the article. … More How to spend your summer as a teacher
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