Are you a teacher who's feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Do you worry that you're feeling symptoms of burnout or are you sure you've already gotten there? Have you started to dream of doing some other kind of job or perhaps pursuing a whole different career, but you don't know what else you're even qualified to do. You don't know how to start a job search. You just feel stuck. If that sounds like you, I promise you're not alone. My name is kitty Boitnott.
I'm a career transition and job search coach. And I specialize in helping burn out teachers, just like you deal, not only with the stress and overwhelm of your day to day job, but to consider what other careers might be out there waiting for you. Join me for teachers in transition. In some episodes, I'll be speaking to stress management techniques and how you can manage your stress on a day to day basis. In other episodes, I'll be talking about career transition.
What tools do you need to be successful in a job search when you're moving from one career into a totally different track. These are questions that you need answers to, and I can help you find those answers. My name is kitty . Boitnott welcome to teachers and transition.
Welcome back to another episode of teachers in transition, the podcast and the YouTube channel. My name is Katie Boyd and I am the owner of [inaudible] coaching and the founder of teachers in transition. I have offered services as an experienced career transition and job search coach to teachers who are burnt out and ready to make a career change since 2013. And I'm also a certified stress management coach.
So I alternate topics each week between career transition and stress management strategies. And this week, the topic is stress management strategies. Now I'm following the outline of a course that I created a few years ago on the specific strategies that teachers can use to more effectively and proactively manage their stress. And on the weeks that I've been offering stress management strategies for the last several weeks, that is the course I've been referring to this week.
The topic that comes up in the course that is related to how to manage your stress is how to manage procrastination, which affects your stress by using nail Robbins's five second rule. Now, if you aren't familiar with Mel Robbins, you need to check her out because she's phenomenal. I had the pleasure of hearing her speak in person at a conference a few years ago in Washington DC. And she just, she inspired me no end.
She has a great talk called , uh, something about the F word, which turns out to be fine. And she advises people to stop using the F word. And when people ask you how you're doing, don't respond with the automatic. I'm fine because more often than not, you're not. She also talks about other things that we all need to be aware of and reminded of. And one of her topics is the , uh , the whole issue of procrastination and what can happen to our lives.
If we get caught up in the rut of putting off constantly, the things that we know we need to be doing and how those things can start to pile up. And the longer we procrastinate, the worst, we feel the longer the list of things to do, and you get where I'm going. So she created what she refers to as the five second rule. And she shares in her book of the same title, the five second rule.
She came up with the idea of when she was watching the countdown for , uh, one of NASA's , uh, satellite launches. And it occurred to her that if you, if you could make yourself, get into the habit of counting down five, four, three, two, one, instead of blasting off, you just get up and do whatever it is you've been putting off. And it became a habit for her. And it became a rule that she goes by.
And now that she teaches to probably hundreds of thousands of people, because she's been talking about the five second rule for years now. So I wanted to introduce you to Mel Robbins, M E L R O B B I N S like Tony Robbins or Les . I don't believe they're related at all. Uh, she is a life coach. I think she's a podcaster and no she's a television show host. You can find her. So TEDx speaker, you can find her online, just Google mail Robbins , and check out the book. The five second rule.
The whole idea is that we become stressed out and the stress can cause us to feel stuck and immobilized and unable to move forward, to take on anything new, you know, that it sort of creates this sense , lack of motivation that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, where too tired to do anything, which means nothing gets done. And then we're too tired and too overwhelmed to tackle anything that needs to be done because where do you begin? Yeah . And , and this becomes , uh , uh, ongoing cycle.
If you're a natural procrastinator, you know exactly what I'm talking about, how you can just continue to put things off and continue to put things off until you begin to feel crushed under the weight of all the things that need to be done in your life. And this is one strategy for helping you to break free of that cycle of procrastination. Now, there are others, and you can, again, Google strategies for ending procrastination. Mel Robbins only has this.
She has this one particular or strategy that worked for her. And according, you know, based on the mini testimony she's gotten, and that are even included in her book, it has worked for other people. I've recommended it as part of my course for how to break that cycle of stress that's caused by putting things off and procrastinating for too long. And I think it works. I've tried it for myself. And I can say as a personal testimonial that it works. So check it out.
I'll include some links to the YouTube , um , speech that she's made about the five second rule and to her book and to her so that you can find her. And I want you to take a few moments and just consider what you might feel like, how free you might feel if you were able to at last rid yourself of all of the things on your to-do list, because you've been putting off getting to your to-do list , how freeing it would feel and the weight you would feel lifted off your shoulders.
If you weren't constantly battling this whole notion that you've got a million things to do and not enough time in the day and not enough energy to do any of them, it can make it huge difference in relieving your stress. I promise you, so give it a try, check it out. And as always, if you would leave a review of this podcast so that other people can find it more easily, send questions, comments, suggestions, for topics that you'd like to hear me speak to.
If you'd like to reach out to me personally, email me at kitty boy , not@gmail.com and I hope you have a wonderful week. It's spraying. Finally, people are getting vaccinated. Finally, we see light at the end of the Corona virus tunnel. I hope. And , uh , so stay, continue to wear a mask, continue to stay safe and be well. And I'll see you next week. Have a great one.
So there you have it. An episode of teachers in transition. I hope you enjoy the information and I hope you'll plan to come back, please subscribe to teachers in transition so that you can be alerted of future episodes. And let me know if you have any questions or topics that you would like me to specifically cover in a future episode, I'm more than happy to help with individual questions as well. So email me at kitty boy , not at boys , not coaching.com.
If you are interested in finding a new career or just enjoying your life more, this is the place to start. I'm Katie Boitnott and this is teachers in transition.