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Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is that you're probably more productive than you

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Speaker 1: think you are. Even if your time is fragmented these days,

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Speaker 1: you may be making some progress. By taking a few

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Speaker 1: minutes to appreciate the big things you've accomplished over the

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Speaker 1: last few months, you can keep little frustrations in perspective.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking the other day that if someone said

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Speaker 1: to me about eighteen months ago, hey, in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: all four of your school aged children will be home

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Speaker 1: all day for three months, and by the way, this

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Speaker 1: will coincide with a new baby's arrival too, I would

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Speaker 1: have thought, Hm, I bet I will not be getting

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Speaker 1: much done, and there are many things that just haven't happened.

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Speaker 1: But there are other things that have. I started this podcast,

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Speaker 1: for instance. I wrote a show book on working from home.

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Speaker 1: It's also called the New Corner Office, and i'll be

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Speaker 1: out later this month. My kids and I have had

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Speaker 1: a good time doing various projects, and we've started new

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Speaker 1: family traditions like ordering in on Thursdays and getting Rita's

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Speaker 1: water ice on Sundays. Looking back, I don't think I'll

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Speaker 1: call these the most productive three months of my life,

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Speaker 1: but they won't be the least productive either. Your life

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Speaker 1: might look different from mine, but my guess is that

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Speaker 1: you've done some solid work in the last few months too.

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Speaker 1: If you need to remind yourself about this, look back

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Speaker 1: through your calendar. What did you do which discussions proved fruitful?

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Speaker 1: You probably have some new skills, like running a great

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Speaker 1: video conference. Maybe you've helped your organization pivot to new

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Speaker 1: economic realities. If nothing else, you've learned how to work

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Speaker 1: from home, and that's a useful skill. You've probably made

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Speaker 1: progress on some personal matters as well. If you and

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Speaker 1: your house have managed to trade off childcare and keep

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Speaker 1: your family humming along, well, congratulations. It could take years

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Speaker 1: of work in normal times to get this sense that

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Speaker 1: you're really in it together. Maybe you've accomplished family projects.

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Speaker 1: My husband and daughter read through all of the Harry

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Speaker 1: Potter books for Instances bedtime stories. That sounds pretty productive

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Speaker 1: to me. In any case, when we evaluate time in

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Speaker 1: our minds, much disappears in memory. A thousand identical commutes

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Speaker 1: can compress to one commute. Those thousands of emails or

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Speaker 1: dozens of meetings are likewise pretty much gone. But any

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Speaker 1: big moments or changes stand out, and those are what

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Speaker 1: we wind up remembering. Maybe over the past few months

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Speaker 1: you've learned that you can get as much done from

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Speaker 1: six to seven thirty am before the household gets up

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Speaker 1: as you used to do in an entire afternoon. This

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Speaker 1: knowledge will help you soar when life goes back to normal.

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Speaker 1: That sounds pretty productive to me. In the meantime, This

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Speaker 1: is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's the succeeding in

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