WEBVTT - Ease your transition back to work

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is about how to ease your transition back

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<v Speaker 1>to work after a vacation. Vacations are great, but when

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<v Speaker 1>you step away from work for a while, the work

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't exactly stop while you're gone. Indeed, enough of it

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<v Speaker 1>can pile up that you feel like you're spending the

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<v Speaker 1>first day or two just bailing floodwater out of your boot.

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<v Speaker 1>It might be comforting to know that this is not

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<v Speaker 1>a new phenomenon. It happened long before email. I recently

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<v Speaker 1>read Eleanor Roosevelt's self help book You Learn By Living,

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<v Speaker 1>and she mentioned that whenever she traveled, the mail would

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<v Speaker 1>follow her. Yet when she returned from a trip, she'd

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<v Speaker 1>still have to work late to deal with all her

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<v Speaker 1>correspondence snail mail, email, It doesn't matter. People have always

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<v Speaker 1>felt behind. Still, there are a few things you can

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<v Speaker 1>do to ease your transition back to work after a vacation. First,

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<v Speaker 1>consider leaving your out of office email on for an

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<v Speaker 1>extra day. I think it's silly to expect instantaneous responses

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<v Speaker 1>to email, but if you work in that sort of environment.

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<v Speaker 1>At least, this buys you some extra time before the

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<v Speaker 1>expectations start. However, you might also consider not treating your

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<v Speaker 1>inbox as the first thing needing your attention. Much of

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<v Speaker 1>it is probably no longer relevant. Instead, go talk to

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<v Speaker 1>your colleagues. If you've been gone for a while. It's

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<v Speaker 1>polite to go say hello anyway, but you can use

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<v Speaker 1>this chat to ask a simple question, what did I miss?

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<v Speaker 1>This immediately gets you caught up on what still matters

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<v Speaker 1>in a way that reading an email chain from last

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<v Speaker 1>Tuesday probably will not. You might consider not setting any

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<v Speaker 1>truly consequential meetings on that first day. Open space gives

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<v Speaker 1>you time to get caught up and also to prepare

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<v Speaker 1>for what's happening in the future. If you have a

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<v Speaker 1>big pitch meeting on the monday you're back, you'll definitely

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<v Speaker 1>be thinking about it on vacation, and that can ruin

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<v Speaker 1>the vibe if it's on Wednesday, though, you can deal

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<v Speaker 1>with it upon return. So what should you schedule for

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<v Speaker 1>the first day back? Well, how about lunch with a

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<v Speaker 1>work friend or two whose company you really enjoy. This

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<v Speaker 1>can help remind you what you like about your job,

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<v Speaker 1>which can be a good thing to keep in mind

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<v Speaker 1>if you're coming off a vacation high. As for the

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<v Speaker 1>stuff on the home front, this might sound crazy, but

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<v Speaker 1>unless your family is completely out of socks, you don't

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<v Speaker 1>have to start laundry the second you get back. You

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<v Speaker 1>don't have to go to the grocery store and then

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<v Speaker 1>cook for the week either. Just order take out and

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<v Speaker 1>push the laundry forward a day or two. Instead, use

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<v Speaker 1>the time after you get back from your break but

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<v Speaker 1>before you start work the next morning to relax, write

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<v Speaker 1>down any cool memories or ideas you had well gone,

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<v Speaker 1>and then get to bed on time. When you get

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<v Speaker 1>enough sleep, then you can take on the world. How

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<v Speaker 1>do you ease your transition back to work after a vacation.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me know at Before Breakfast podcast at i heeart

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<v Speaker 1>media dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for listening and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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