Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office,
Speaker 1: the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the
Speaker 1: new world of work or location and hours are more
Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is that Monday's
Speaker 1: go much better when you plan your week, or at
Speaker 1: least your Monday before Monday. You want to start your
Speaker 1: Monday's ready to go instead of wasting your starting energy
Speaker 1: deciding what to do. Now. I know that a lot
Speaker 1: of people and a lot of organizations start Monday mornings
Speaker 1: planning the week ahead. You sit down as a team
Speaker 1: and set your goals or get your marching orders. And
Speaker 1: it makes sense. Monday is technically the start of the
Speaker 1: work week. But energy is a funny thing. When we
Speaker 1: spend Monday morning deciding what to do, we often can't
Speaker 1: start executing until Monday afternoon, and by afternoon many people
Speaker 1: are starting to fade. Now this might be worth it
Speaker 1: if there was no other good time to plan, which
Speaker 1: might seem to be the case. I mean, you're not
Speaker 1: going to call a team meeting on Sunday afternoon to
Speaker 1: plan Monday morning. But why not look back a little further.
Speaker 1: For the past few years, I've planned by weeks. On Fridays,
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon tends to be a great time to plan
Speaker 1: the week ahead, partly because most people aren't doing anything
Speaker 1: else of consequence on Friday afternoons. Onlike Monday morning, there's
Speaker 1: not much of an opportunity cost. So by sitting down
Speaker 1: with your calendar, enlisting priorities and figuring out where they
Speaker 1: can go, you can turn what might be wasted time
Speaker 1: into some of your most productive moments of the week.
Speaker 1: Another upside of planning on Fridays well, one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that Mondays and Sunday nights for that matter, can
Speaker 1: be rough is that we don't know what's waiting for
Speaker 1: us on Monday morning. We know there's a lot of work,
Speaker 1: but we don't know exactly what and what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do about it, and so our brains spin and circles
Speaker 1: trying to make plans. If you go ahead and make
Speaker 1: a real plan on Friday, then you can relax and
Speaker 1: enjoy your weekend. This is true if you work in
Speaker 1: a team too. If you're setting group goals, you can
Speaker 1: have a Friday midday check in to see how the
Speaker 1: last week went and to say what would make a
Speaker 1: challenging but doable week to come. Come next Friday, what
Speaker 1: would you like to say you've done? How can that
Speaker 1: be broken down into day by day task lists? Where
Speaker 1: are you going to start? So that is what will
Speaker 1: you be doing on Monday morning. Feel free to extend
Speaker 1: your Friday planning to incorporate personal priorities to but by
Speaker 1: planning Monday morning before Monday, you can hit Monday ready
Speaker 1: to go and that will help you make the most
Speaker 1: of your energy all week. In the meantime, this is Laura,
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's the succeeding in the New
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