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, where location and hours are more
Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is to put
Speaker 1: a lid on it. No, I am not suggesting you
Speaker 1: keep your great ideas to yourself. I mean literally put
Speaker 1: a lid on it. As then used travel cups in
Speaker 1: your work from home setup. Now this might sound like
Speaker 1: a silly bit of advice, after all, a key upside
Speaker 1: of remote work is that you aren't traveling anywhere. No
Speaker 1: need to delve into the world of insulated cups and
Speaker 1: thermosis and such. But I've been working from home for
Speaker 1: a long time and I've realized that not all journeys
Speaker 1: involved distances. Mornings can get long, and morning work hours
Speaker 1: can be fragmented. Work for forty five minutes, deal with
Speaker 1: the kids, then get to work again. A travel mug
Speaker 1: keeps me from constantly having to red heeat my coffee.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but I've always found
Speaker 1: that the original heat is somehow nicer than the microwave variety.
Speaker 1: In recent months, I've noticed some additional benefits to travel
Speaker 1: cups too for one volume. When I find my way
Speaker 1: to my office with my travel mug of coffee and
Speaker 1: a big bottle of water with a lid on on it,
Speaker 1: of course I'm set for several hours if I bring
Speaker 1: a small glass of water or a normal mug. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, I have to go to the kitchen
Speaker 1: to refill it every hour or so. And you all
Speaker 1: know what happens when you shed the invisibility cloak of
Speaker 1: your office and become visible to everyone in your house.
Speaker 1: There are lots of requests for your time and attention,
Speaker 1: and that trip to the kitchen to refill your water
Speaker 1: glass easily consumes twenty minutes or more. A big water
Speaker 1: bottle and a big travel mug of coffee let's you
Speaker 1: remain invisible longer. And then there are the spills. I
Speaker 1: will admit to spilling coffee on papers occasionally, and the
Speaker 1: floor and my office chair and my clothes. Plenty of
Speaker 1: generally coordinated and responsible people spill drinks on their computers too.
Speaker 1: When you add children and pets to the work from
Speaker 1: home mix, the risks become greater. Kids crawling all over
Speaker 1: you and your desk will do much less damage if
Speaker 1: they knock over a travel mug or a water bottle
Speaker 1: with the lid on it than if they knock over
Speaker 1: a traditional cup or glass. Consider that travel mug as
Speaker 1: an investment and your productivity and family harmony. I think
Speaker 1: there may be a more subtle benefit to using a
Speaker 1: travel mug too. Travel containers subtly cue you that you
Speaker 1: are leaving home mode and shifting to work mode, even
Speaker 1: if work takes place in your home now. Subtle cues
Speaker 1: like that can be helpful for maximizing productivity while you're
Speaker 1: at work, wherever that may be, and for shifting you
Speaker 1: back into home mode at the end of the work
Speaker 1: day when you pour yourself a glass of something in
Speaker 1: a lidless glass. So this morning, as you prepare to
Speaker 1: go to your workplace, such as it is, consider grabbing
Speaker 1: a travel mug, put a lid on it. You'll keep
Speaker 1: hot things hot or cold things cold if that's your thing,
Speaker 1: and you'll provision yourself amply for several hours of work
Speaker 1: in the meantime. This is Laura, thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's the succeeding in the New Corner Office. The New
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