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Creating a sustainable work/life balance: How to set your workload priorities

In this four-part series, teacher and coach Helen Webb offers practical advice for creating work/life balance. In part three, she focuses on how to decide what your workload priorities are
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The to-do list when working in schools is never-ending. It can feel particularly overwhelming when we are already tired and are juggling family and personal priorities as well as school work.

Between teaching a heavy timetable, having meetings and being responsive to other staff and student issues, it can feel like there is barely a moment to get stuff done. The pressure on our time mounts and it can feel like we are being pulled in 10 different directions at once.

In the first article of this series, I challenged you to reflect more closely on your personal situation and consider what else (other than a mounting to-do list) might be contributing to your (or a colleague’s you are supporting) inability to gain a reasonable work/life balance.

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