WEBVTT - The New Corner Office: Embrace your weekends

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<v Speaker 1>Say, have you ever felt depressed about work? Only to

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<v Speaker 1>have your dad be like, why you're so down? So

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<v Speaker 1>you told him you hate your job and he said, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you better talk yourself out of it. And then you thought, hmm,

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<v Speaker 1>I love to talk. I could host a podcast. And

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<v Speaker 1>then quit your boring job and told your dad thanks

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<v Speaker 1>what I meant, and I don't understand what a podcast is,

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the New Corner Office, the podcast where we

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<v Speaker 1>share strategies for thriving in the new world of work.

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<v Speaker 1>We're location and ours are more flexible than in the past.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to embrace your weekends. Yes, even now,

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<v Speaker 1>make Saturday different from Tuesday. Even if you spend your

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<v Speaker 1>time in the same place on Saturdays and Tuesdays, you

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<v Speaker 1>don't need to spend your time in the same way.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a great scene in the TV series Downton Abbey

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<v Speaker 1>when a young lawyer offers that he can visit on

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<v Speaker 1>the weekends. An aristocratic older lady asks, what is the weekend?

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<v Speaker 1>With a life of leisure, the day of the week

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<v Speaker 1>makes no difference to her. If every day is defined

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<v Speaker 1>by pleasure and relaxation, then your life might as well

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<v Speaker 1>be a series of Saturdays. But if you're listening to

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<v Speaker 1>this podcast and aiming to maximize your productivity, my guess

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<v Speaker 1>is that in normal times, you are keenly aware of

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<v Speaker 1>week days and you get a lot of good work done.

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<v Speaker 1>In normal times, you would never mistake a Sunday for

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<v Speaker 1>a Wednesday. But these are not normal times. For many people,

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<v Speaker 1>it's become hard to distinguish the days from each other. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>This might not be the case if you've got kids

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<v Speaker 1>home with you who are thrilled to get two days

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<v Speaker 1>off from their zoom classes. But if it's just you

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<v Speaker 1>or mostly adults in your household, it's easy to find

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<v Speaker 1>yourself working on Saturday and Sunday as if they were

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<v Speaker 1>no different from the Thursday and Friday you just worked

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<v Speaker 1>your way through. Now, I will never tell people not

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<v Speaker 1>to work on a weekend if you don't have a

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<v Speaker 1>religious prohibition against it. There's nothing inherently wrong with catching

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<v Speaker 1>up on some tasks on a Saturday, or as I'm

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<v Speaker 1>doing right now, writing podcast scripts at seven am on Sunday.

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<v Speaker 1>But for most people to be able to work remotely sustainably,

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<v Speaker 1>it's helpful to maintain some sort of weekly rhythm. To

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<v Speaker 1>be at our best, we need times to rest and recharge.

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<v Speaker 1>Over the longer term, you will probably get more done

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<v Speaker 1>if you're not working a normal work schedule seven days

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<v Speaker 1>a week. To keep work from taking over your weekend,

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<v Speaker 1>you need to do two things. First, if you find

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<v Speaker 1>yourself board, find something non work related to do. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>this is more challenging if you live in a place

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<v Speaker 1>where leaving the house is still problematic, but it is

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<v Speaker 1>still possible. Remind yourself of your leisure options. Go for

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<v Speaker 1>a walk, call a friend, get absorbed in a good

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<v Speaker 1>book or in practice music, fire up the grill and experiment.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't think of this as frittering away time you could

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<v Speaker 1>be working. Instead, think of it as cross training. Athletes

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<v Speaker 1>often devote time to complementary sports. A runner might bike

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<v Speaker 1>two days a week to maintain a robic capacity while

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<v Speaker 1>minimizing wear and tear. Likewise, as you putter in your garden,

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<v Speaker 1>you might think of some design concepts to incorporate in

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<v Speaker 1>your work. Effort Ful fun I seldom wasted. Second, if

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<v Speaker 1>you do need to work over the weekend, or if

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<v Speaker 1>you'd like to invest time in a bigger professional project,

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<v Speaker 1>set some time aside specifically for that. I'm working from

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<v Speaker 1>five thirty am to eight thirty am on Sunday morning,

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<v Speaker 1>so the rest of the day is open. If you

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<v Speaker 1>don't have young kids, you probably don't need to get

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<v Speaker 1>up that early. But if you know that you'll work

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<v Speaker 1>from four to eight pm on Sunday, then you can

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<v Speaker 1>resist the urge to check email the rest of the weekend.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a time for work and it's not now. You'll

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<v Speaker 1>be more focused and efficient and feel more relaxed. Of course,

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<v Speaker 1>part of making weekends special is not treating weekdays like weekends.

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<v Speaker 1>I probably don't have to tell you this, but you're

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<v Speaker 1>best off creating a challenging but doable to do list

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<v Speaker 1>for Tuesday, Wednesday and the rest and knocking those items out.

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<v Speaker 1>If you spend the day surfing the web or organizing

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<v Speaker 1>the pantry, then you'll feel behind and feel like you

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<v Speaker 1>need to work all of Saturday, and the cycle gets messy.

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<v Speaker 1>Building a weekly schedule with time for work and time

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<v Speaker 1>for everything else makes success and personal fulfillment possible, and

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<v Speaker 1>that sounds good to me any day of the week.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, this is Laura, Thanks for listening, and

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