Teachers are incredibly busy. I know of no other profession where so much work is taken home. It all needs to be graded in-between dishes and bedtime stories and then handed back the next day. Preparing a week of classes with tests, standards, and other areas of integration can make tax forms look like coloring pages. More often than not, the time allotted for such planning during the actual school day is spent tutoring, contacting parents, or various other meetings. And then of course there is the teacher’s family life. Dare I even mention dreams? I’m not complaining, because I love teaching and understand these are some of the challenges I face for pursuing such an honorable profession. Still, there are ways to better organize and prioritize our lives to do more. For those who wish to better manage their day-to-day duties and responsibilities, and wish to have the energy and drive to chase and catch life’s BIG dreams! I highly recommend Matthew Kelly’s new book Off Balance. Off Balance will provide you with the tools to accomplish more in life and experience greater personal and professional satisfaction. I highly recommend this book for educators.
Work-Life Balance has been a popular theme in contemporary writings, but Matthew Kelly contends it is not only unachievable, but undesirable as well. In this book Kelly lays out the very system he uses with his clients and himself to achieve personal and professional success, how to create an energy-rich life, and he provides us with a clear strategy to prioritize and accomplish our dreams.
Matthew Kelly challenges the very idea of seeking balance in our lives and he asserts that what we actually want is for personal and professional satisfaction, not balance. Balancing, he contends, prevents us from these satisfactions and he illustrates that we, like all who have achieved greatness before us, must make sacrifices in some areas to obtain this satisfaction. Matthew conducted a survey that found people overwhelming prefer satisfaction to balance in both the workplace and home. “Over the past three years I have asked more than ten thousand respondents, ‘If you had to choose between balance and satisfaction, which would you choose?’ Not a single respondent chose balance over satisfaction.”
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