The Teacher Writer’s Life: Clutter Out, Creativity In!
December 30, 2009 by admin
Filed under Classroom Management and Organization
With full force I decided to take upon myself a number of end-of-the-year cleaning projects last week. I started with the closet, then moved to the kitchen cabinets, the filing cabinet and finally the bedrooms. When I was finally done, I had several boxes of papers (those went to the recycling bin) unused clothes, and endless assortment of useless junk. It took five trips up and down the staris to get rid of those all boxes. Phew! The Goodwill people later came and picked up the rest of the boxes.
Clutter out – creativity in!
I used to do this type of heavy duty cleaning and organization quite regularly; now I hardly seem to have the time. What had happened?
After my “workout”, I found that not only was I more relaxed, I was more clear-headed. I found that there was room in my head to actually think!
So what did you think I did after that? Right! I started writing the content for my brand new 21 day ecourse which I’ll soon share with you.
Anyhow, Meggin McIntosh from the PHD of Productivity suggests several good reasons why we as teachers (or anybody for that matter) need to empty our lives from clutter from time to time:
* Our stress is reduced
* We are more effective.
* We are more efficient.
* We are less likely to be overwhelmed.
* We are more creative.
* We are better listeners.
* We can sleep!
Aren’t those convincing enough reasons to jumpstart your 2010 cleaning projects and declutter your life?
So what are you waiting for?
Take one small cleaning project at a time and then see how you feel. I think you’ll feel a lot more relaxed and you’ll actually have more time to enjoy what you’re doing!
So start cleaning!
