1 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. 2 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 2: Good Morning. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's 4 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: tip is to plan in a different place. By moving 5 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: yourself physically to a different location, you can create a 6 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: little psychological space for thinking about how you'd like to 7 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: spend your time in the future. Longtime listeners know that 8 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: I recommend having a designated weekly planning time when you 9 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: think about your professional and personal priorities for the upcoming week. 10 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: Longtime listeners also know that I recommend doing this on 11 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: Fridays if that happens to be a low key day 12 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: for you, or maybe even Thursday if that works better 13 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: for your schedule. Lately, I have been doing this planning 14 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: on Thursdays to get a little ahead of things and 15 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: so I can come back to the planning on Friday 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: if I have forgotten something. Anyway, every other Thursday morning, 17 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: our cleaning service tackles the first floor of our house, 18 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: which is where my home office is located, so I 19 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: need to leave my office and go elsewhere for an 20 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: hour or so. Sometimes I just go upstairs or outside. 21 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: Other times I go to the library or a coffee shop. 22 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: I started moving out of necessity, so I'm not a 23 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: nuisance when people are trying to vacuum. But I have 24 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: found that I really enjoy doing my weekly planning during 25 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: this little field trip, even if I am only in 26 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: a different part of my house. I am not at 27 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: my desk, so I find myself able to think a 28 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: little more creatively about what I should do over the 29 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: next week, or how I should structure my schedule. I 30 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: come up with ideas for my podcasts and newsletters. I 31 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: think about potential long term plans and what I might 32 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: want to tackle in the near term. I am guessing 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: that you might find the same thing. The first and 34 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: most important step is to do some sort of weekly planning. 35 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: It absolutely doesn't matter if you have a fancy planner 36 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: or pen, or where or when you do your planning, 37 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: as long as you do it. 38 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 2: So commit to that first. But once you have made 39 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: that commitment, you might want to experiment with getting slightly 40 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 2: outside of your usual execution zone. If you do most 41 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 2: of your work at your desk and you have space 42 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: in your office for a chair, you might just go 43 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: sit in that chair, or go sit in a conference 44 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 2: room or at the kitchen table. If you're normally at 45 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: a desk in a home office elsewhere, if the weather 46 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 2: is nice, you could go sit at a table outside, 47 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 2: or take a quick field trip to a nearby sandwich 48 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 2: place where you buy yourself lunch and write down your 49 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 2: intentions for the next week. I think this relocation works, 50 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 2: at least in part because you're less likely to be distracted. 51 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 2: I mean, sure, you can see emails coming in on 52 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: your phone just the same as you can at your desk, 53 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: but somehow it can feel less like this is what 54 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: you are supposed to be doing with your time. If 55 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: people tend to come talk to you at your desk, 56 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 2: they might be less likely to do that if you 57 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: are elsewhere. Even just seeing different scenery can put you 58 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 2: in a different frame of mind. Planning and execution are 59 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: different things. They are both important, but it makes sense 60 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: that we draw on slightly different skills and parts of 61 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 2: our brain to do them. By separating these out a 62 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: bit physically, we can be a bit more intentional about both. 63 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 2: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and 64 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 2: here's to making the most of our times. Thanks for 65 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: listening to before breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, 66 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 2: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. 67 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 2: Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartMedia. 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