YGT 489: Avoiding Avalanches
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YGT 489: Avoiding Avalanches

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 2, 202611 min

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You're listening to You've Got This, episode 489. Welcome to You've Got This, a weekly podcast for higher education professionals looking to increase their confidence and capacity for juggling the day-to-day demands of an academic life.

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I'm your host, Dr. Katie Linder. On this episode, I want to talk about some strategies for avoiding what I call avalanches. And this is one of those things where like maybe you're coming into Monday, you know, of a new week and it feels like like an avalanche is just hitting you like you have so much

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work to do. And before you even like opened your email, you're just overwhelmed. Like there's just so much coming at you. And what I want to talk about today is like, how do we try to lighten the load of that

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