Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase GET ON TOP OF THINGS and STAY ON TOP OF THINGS

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "Get on top of things." When you are busy in life sometimes you get behind. You know you have a lot of things to do and you don't have enough time to do them, and then you get behind. And that's not a good feeling. And then you need to get on top of things. The last couple of weeks, I was really, really busy and I kind of got a little bit behind on the farm, at school, with YouTube. But now as of today, I was able to get back on top of things. I spent a lot of time over the last few days getting back on top of things. So, when you get on top of things, it means you get caught up. It means you finish a whole bunch of work that you needed to get done so that you could just feel good again.

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Hey, there's two other phrases I wanted to teach you as well. "To be on top of things" or "To stay on top of things." So there's kind of two phrases here, right? Let me cover this one up. "To be on top of things" or "To stay on top of things." When you are able to stay on top of things, when you are on top of things, for me, at least, life feels really good. It means that I have everything done that I need to get done. By the end of each day, it's really nice for me to be on top of things, okay? As I go through my week, it's really nice to stay on top of things. I don't like being behind. I don't like knowing that there is a pile of work that I need to do in order to get back on top of things. So anyways, let's review these two phrases. When you need to get on top of things, it means you're a little bit behind in your work and you need to do extra work so that you can be on top of things. And it's always really nice to just stay on top of things. I can't even express how nice of a feeling that is when you finish your week, when it's Saturday afternoon and you were able to stay on top of things all week and you're just totally on top of everything in your life. It's a really good feeling.

Hey, but let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Padma, and Padma says this, "To be top dog in life is everyone's dream "but sometimes it becomes a burden "or you are overwhelmed with that responsibility. "So being second banana sometimes may give you "some breathing room." And my response was this. "Exactly. I agree 100%. "Sometimes being in charge is very stressful."

So thanks Padma for that comment. And I do agree with you 100%. In fact, I used to run a computer tech support company, as well as teach. So for a number of years, I was a part-time teacher and I also did tech support for a couple of schools. And I was really, really busy. But what I'm trying to say is this. When I was in charge of my own company, when I was top dog, it had a lot of responsibility. Now that I just teach full time and someone else is top dog, it's a lot easier. It's a lot easier in life to not be the top dog. I have less responsibilities. My boss, especially over this past year, has had far more responsibilities than just regular teachers, making decisions about COVID protocols at school, making decisions about how to communicate to all of the parents and students what we're doing as a school. Being top dog for the last year and a bit has not been easy for a lot of people. They've had to make some really tough and hard decisions. So Padma again, once again, I totally agree.

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Learn the English Phrases TO GET ON TOP OF THINGS and TO STAY ON TOP OF THINGS