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

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Speaker 1: the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the

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Speaker 1: new world of work or location and hours are more

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Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is that Monday's

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Speaker 1: go much better when you plan your week, or at

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Speaker 1: least your Monday before Monday. You want to start your

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Speaker 1: Monday's ready to go instead of wasting your starting energy

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Speaker 1: deciding what to do. Now. I know that a lot

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Speaker 1: of people and a lot of organizations start Monday mornings

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Speaker 1: planning the week ahead. You sit down as a team

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Speaker 1: and set your goals or get your marching orders. And

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Speaker 1: it makes sense. Monday is technically the start of the

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Speaker 1: work week. But energy is a funny thing. When we

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Speaker 1: spend Monday morning deciding what to do, we often can't

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Speaker 1: start executing until Monday afternoon, and by afternoon many people

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Speaker 1: are starting to fade. Now this might be worth it

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Speaker 1: if there was no other good time to plan, which

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Speaker 1: might seem to be the case. I mean, you're not

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Speaker 1: going to call a team meeting on Sunday afternoon to

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Speaker 1: plan Monday morning. But why not look back a little further.

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Speaker 1: For the past few years, I've planned by weeks. On Fridays,

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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon tends to be a great time to plan

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Speaker 1: the week ahead, partly because most people aren't doing anything

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Speaker 1: else of consequence on Friday afternoons. Onlike Monday morning, there's

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Speaker 1: not much of an opportunity cost. So by sitting down

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Speaker 1: with your calendar, enlisting priorities and figuring out where they

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Speaker 1: can go, you can turn what might be wasted time

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Speaker 1: into some of your most productive moments of the week.

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Speaker 1: Another upside of planning on Fridays well, one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons that Mondays and Sunday nights for that matter, can

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Speaker 1: be rough is that we don't know what's waiting for

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Speaker 1: us on Monday morning. We know there's a lot of work,

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Speaker 1: but we don't know exactly what and what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do about it, and so our brains spin and circles

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Speaker 1: trying to make plans. If you go ahead and make

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Speaker 1: a real plan on Friday, then you can relax and

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Speaker 1: enjoy your weekend. This is true if you work in

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Speaker 1: a team too. If you're setting group goals, you can

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Speaker 1: have a Friday midday check in to see how the

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Speaker 1: last week went and to say what would make a

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Speaker 1: challenging but doable week to come. Come next Friday, what

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Speaker 1: would you like to say you've done? How can that

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Speaker 1: be broken down into day by day task lists? Where

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Speaker 1: are you going to start? So that is what will

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Speaker 1: you be doing on Monday morning. Feel free to extend

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Speaker 1: your Friday planning to incorporate personal priorities to but by

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Speaker 1: planning Monday morning before Monday, you can hit Monday ready

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Speaker 1: to go and that will help you make the most

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Speaker 1: of your energy all week. In the meantime, this is Laura,

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

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