I've found a work-life balance!!!!!!

Teacher is not a profession, it is a style of life or even a diagnosis of a hopeless case of disease. But that’s true only for devoted teachers, who are a bit perfectionists. If your are a teacher because you have a diploma, which gives you rights to tech children, try to find another exit, because being a teacher is something more that being just a teacher. Being a teacher means to be a professional – methodologist, Grammar teacher, Literature master, psychologist; but that’s not enough – you also have to be a youth mentor, sometimes a mother or even a father (or vice versa).
But that’s life, where you, being a perfectionist and being an excellent doer of one activity, can absolutely fail or be an amateur in others. So you can be a Teacher (from the capital letter) but how to stop being a mentor and start your own private life?
As for me that’ impossible, but we can come closer to the ideal.
First of all persuade yourself that you really need to have your private life or something more than your devotion. Secondly, try to find something which does not concern your job ( because having “teach-ing” hobby, such as creating new programs, surfing the Internet for new information about (high) school life, correspondence with your ex-pupils will not work at all - that’s the part of you-teacher). It can be reading last novelties of literature, taking dance classes, attending barman’s lessons or even walking with your pets ( if you have none – just buy a pet and you will certainly need some time for it).
The third step is finding time for your activity! You-not-a teacher needs some time and space for breathing. It is easy – just stop your teaching activity, forget about carrier, put aside copybooks, postpone planning a lesson. You shouldn’t do anything, unless you want to relax and let this world wait. You must enjoy your new state. Your wish to have a small piece of private life is your only helper.
And the last. Don’t make your refreshment your second work or you’ll need some rest from your rest! That’s ridiculous!

Start working!

Start working! But how to start working? Even writing these two sentences (6 words only) took me some time and mental activity (and I agree that’s the best opening I can think up right now). According to the text about a steady writer, people should be taught some lessons to learn what habits can make them better starters. So how to start doing something? Or how to start doing anything?

People often think that work is something compulsory and don’t see that it can enrich them and develop. Just working for nothing (as in the text – writing without worrying about grades and spelling) or without any motivation (just the same!). So you’re the leader – rule your deeds – find time and place to work. It doesn’t matter if you have to listen to music or sit and concentrate in silence, pace, fall into a trance, tide your workplace. If you have some rituals – use them – don’t be shy, that’s for your own good. Motivate yourself! Push and pull yourself if you can’t use carrot in motivation (even imaginary) – use a self-made stick. Actually I have some points in my head (one point is to think how to start working, a profound idea how really to start working (or to delay, if possible), then comes a thought how to continue working (without stop after a few minutes of work), and at last a full completion of that hell (of course, on the top of my endeavour).

Those key points won’t let me forget about my aim (or about fear of something somebody can do with me if I couldn’t reach the goal). That’s all and that is the magic of Motivation.

If you can’t find it in yourself there is a way to help you. I remember a story of one writer, who was a pupil of a genius artist but wanted to create his own masterpiece. Once when that young man was ready, his master told him to start the young lad was very puzzled and couldn’t get himself ready to work. Then an old writer told the upset boy to re-write the masterpiece of the teacher, but if the youth felt strength to continue in his own way he would have to continue and that would be his own story. This ad-vice made the young man a master of short stories. So if you can’t start because your wish is not enough – stay near your work (if you are to make a presentation for the next day – start working with a computer, if you thing there is no time for cleaning - sit in the most foul place – you’ll see soon you will start tiding unconscious). So be close to the work you are to do, have some thoughts of doing it on all stages, stages, don’t be shy to use your rituals. But the essence is to use stick-and-carrot policy.

I don’t think my method will suit everybody, but that’s the strongest artillery I have for extra-quick start! So think about key points (writing essay), goal (grades, grades and grades), achievement (A-A and A marks) and punishment (I am afraid of my English teacher) or invent it if you aren’t concern about somebody’s opinion – no cakes till I get A for this. And Start working! Time is running out!

Oh, year. Almost forget. Don’t be lazy and you won’t need my extra starting.

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