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When is enough...enough?

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Creator Ops Insider By Robby Miles

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What does enough look like?

It's going to vary from day to day and task to task.

It's like you're juggling glass balls and rubber balls.

You want to keep them all in the air.

But you can't always do that...

But sometimes you say to yourself...okay, that thing is a rubber ball....

It can bounce.

I can pick it up again.

But glass balls are the ones that cause massive problems if they get dropped.

Stay focused on the glass balls.

When you have them under control that's when you can add the rubber balls back in.

There are times where it's appropriate to "drop the ball" (as long as it's a rubber one).

Here's a quick example:

When I started as a brand new teacher, I was in officer candidate school for the National Guard and had two little kids and an amazing wife at home.

For my first four years teaching, I brought work home all the time.

I cut into my family time to do more work 🤦‍♂️

Finally one day when I was completely overwhelmed, I remembered something one of my mentor teachers told me...

Sometimes the stack of homework papers you have to grade that's just sitting your on your desk need to accidentally fall off into the garbage can...

He gave me permission to let the rubber ball bounce.

So I went through an exercise asking myself,

What would it look like if I didn't take papers home to grade at night?

What would I have to change to leave that work at work and set a clear boundary?

What would need to be true for me to have the freedom I need?

I adjusted how I graded assignments.

I stopped grading everything.

I had students grade their peers and themselves.

And sure, some of them tried to game the system, but so I just lowered the point value on assignments.

I told them straight out, "if you're going to game the system, It'll show up on the test. You'll know the content or you won't."

In time, I gained back the time I needed with my family.

My students developed more personal responsibility.

And they performed better on all their assessments

All of this happened because I gave myself permission to ask if there was a different way to do something than I've done it before.

From those simple questions, you can start to see new possibilities and say to yourself, "oh...I actually could end my day at five. I've done enough."

And maybe that's the way to look at it.

When you hit the end of the day, look at a sticky note on your computer just says, "are all the important things taken care of?"

Here's to knowing when enough is enough!

Robby

Creator Ops Insider By Robby Miles

Unlock the hidden revenue in your Kit account and scale without the stress. Get my free guide: The Top 10 Email Marketing Mistakes…And The Practical Steps To Solve Them. Learn not just what to avoid, but how to fix any of these mistakes you are making.