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actions, people, and goals that bring you have, and in turn will assist with com/part-ii-managing-your-time/8-
your joy, or those that bring you down? allocating time for the things and time-management-step-1-create-a-
If it’s the latter, be aware that you’re people that bring you joy. time-budget/, on January 2, 2021).
giving your power to the people and Similar to a monetary budget,
things that upset you. As soon as you organizing a time budget is harder
find yourself brewing over something than it looks. Just as a “large” salary Show kindness and grace to
upsetting, train yourself to immediately looks frighteningly small when you yourself
divert that mental energy to something allocate it to rent, food, gas and other
positive - which is hard to do at first! expenses, your hours a week is Don’t forget to be as generous to
probably going to look frighteningly yourself as you are to others. Consider
individualized strategies for overcoming
small once you start allocating it to
Create a time budget your goals. You will have to make the actions, people, and visions that
make you a prisoner to your anxieties,
Have you even spent an hour some difficult choices and tradeoffs. and prepare a time budget to allocate
browsing social media when you Budgeting forces you to face the fact time each week for the things and
could have been doing something that you only have a limited number people that bring you joy. Most
productive? Creating a time budget of hours each week, and it also forces importantly, give yourself permission to
will help you discover time that you’re you to make conscious choices enjoy your personal time!
wasting or weren’t aware of that about how you will spend that time.
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About the Authors
Danielle Tan has served in public education for eighteen years. She is currently the Supervisor for
Visual and Performing Arts in the Hamilton Township School District. Tan supervises over sixty art,
music, and theatre teachers throughout twenty-three schools. Before her role as supervisor, she served
as an art teacher in Hamilton for twelve years. Tan has also conducted professional development
workshops and seminars to art educators throughout the state of New Jersey. She has a Bachelor of
Arts and Master of Education from The College of New Jersey and a Master of Liberal Arts in Extension
Studies from Harvard University. Follow her on Twitter @HTSDtan
Dr. Michele Muni has dedicated her career to education and research. She has worked in higher
education for twenty years and currently teaches courses such as criminology, ethics, and school
violence at Rutgers University. Throughout her career she has focused on helping students develop
confidence in thinking outside of the box and encouraging them to apply knowledge learned from other
classes. Dr. Muni has spent a good part of her career studying how and why law enforcement agencies
change their organizational policies and practices. Dr. Muni earned her Bachelor of Arts at The College
of New Jersey and Master of Arts and Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice.
Follow her on Twitter @MicheleMuni1

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