WEBVTT - Plan in a different place

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>Good Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to plan in a different place. By moving

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<v Speaker 1>yourself physically to a different location, you can create a

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<v Speaker 1>little psychological space for thinking about how you'd like to

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<v Speaker 1>spend your time in the future. Longtime listeners know that

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<v Speaker 1>I recommend having a designated weekly planning time when you

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<v Speaker 1>think about your professional and personal priorities for the upcoming week.

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<v Speaker 1>Longtime listeners also know that I recommend doing this on

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<v Speaker 1>Fridays if that happens to be a low key day

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<v Speaker 1>for you, or maybe even Thursday if that works better

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<v Speaker 1>for your schedule. Lately, I have been doing this planning

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<v Speaker 1>on Thursdays to get a little ahead of things and

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<v Speaker 1>so I can come back to the planning on Friday

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<v Speaker 1>if I have forgotten something. Anyway, every other Thursday morning,

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<v Speaker 1>our cleaning service tackles the first floor of our house,

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<v Speaker 1>which is where my home office is located, so I

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<v Speaker 1>need to leave my office and go elsewhere for an

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<v Speaker 1>hour or so. Sometimes I just go upstairs or outside.

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<v Speaker 1>Other times I go to the library or a coffee shop.

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<v Speaker 1>I started moving out of necessity, so I'm not a

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<v Speaker 1>nuisance when people are trying to vacuum. But I have

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<v Speaker 1>found that I really enjoy doing my weekly planning during

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<v Speaker 1>this little field trip, even if I am only in

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<v Speaker 1>a different part of my house. I am not at

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<v Speaker 1>my desk, so I find myself able to think a

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<v Speaker 1>little more creatively about what I should do over the

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<v Speaker 1>next week, or how I should structure my schedule. I

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<v Speaker 1>come up with ideas for my podcasts and newsletters. I

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<v Speaker 1>think about potential long term plans and what I might

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<v Speaker 1>want to tackle in the near term. I am guessing

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<v Speaker 1>that you might find the same thing. The first and

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<v Speaker 1>most important step is to do some sort of weekly planning.

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<v Speaker 1>It absolutely doesn't matter if you have a fancy planner

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<v Speaker 1>or pen, or where or when you do your planning,

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<v Speaker 1>as long as you do it.

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<v Speaker 2>So commit to that first. But once you have made

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<v Speaker 2>that commitment, you might want to experiment with getting slightly

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<v Speaker 2>outside of your usual execution zone. If you do most

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<v Speaker 2>of your work at your desk and you have space

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<v Speaker 2>in your office for a chair, you might just go

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<v Speaker 2>sit in that chair, or go sit in a conference

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<v Speaker 2>room or at the kitchen table. If you're normally at

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<v Speaker 2>a desk in a home office elsewhere, if the weather

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<v Speaker 2>is nice, you could go sit at a table outside,

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<v Speaker 2>or take a quick field trip to a nearby sandwich

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<v Speaker 2>place where you buy yourself lunch and write down your

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<v Speaker 2>intentions for the next week. I think this relocation works,

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<v Speaker 2>at least in part because you're less likely to be distracted.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, sure, you can see emails coming in on

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<v Speaker 2>your phone just the same as you can at your desk,

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<v Speaker 2>but somehow it can feel less like this is what

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<v Speaker 2>you are supposed to be doing with your time. If

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<v Speaker 2>people tend to come talk to you at your desk,

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<v Speaker 2>they might be less likely to do that if you

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<v Speaker 2>are elsewhere. Even just seeing different scenery can put you

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<v Speaker 2>in a different frame of mind. Planning and execution are

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<v Speaker 2>different things. They are both important, but it makes sense

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<v Speaker 2>that we draw on slightly different skills and parts of

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<v Speaker 2>our brain to do them. By separating these out a

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<v Speaker 2>bit physically, we can be a bit more intentional about both.

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<v Speaker 2>In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 2>here's to making the most of our times. Thanks for

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<v Speaker 2>listening to before breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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<v Speaker 2>you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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