Speaker 1: Say, have you ever felt depressed about work? Only to
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Speaker 1: then quit your boring job and told your dad thanks
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the New Corner Office, the podcast where we
Speaker 1: share strategies for thriving in the new world of work.
Speaker 1: We're location and ours are more flexible than in the past.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to embrace your weekends. Yes, even now,
Speaker 1: make Saturday different from Tuesday. Even if you spend your
Speaker 1: time in the same place on Saturdays and Tuesdays, you
Speaker 1: don't need to spend your time in the same way.
Speaker 1: There's a great scene in the TV series Downton Abbey
Speaker 1: when a young lawyer offers that he can visit on
Speaker 1: the weekends. An aristocratic older lady asks, what is the weekend?
Speaker 1: With a life of leisure, the day of the week
Speaker 1: makes no difference to her. If every day is defined
Speaker 1: by pleasure and relaxation, then your life might as well
Speaker 1: be a series of Saturdays. But if you're listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast and aiming to maximize your productivity, my guess
Speaker 1: is that in normal times, you are keenly aware of
Speaker 1: week days and you get a lot of good work done.
Speaker 1: In normal times, you would never mistake a Sunday for
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. But these are not normal times. For many people,
Speaker 1: it's become hard to distinguish the days from each other. Now.
Speaker 1: This might not be the case if you've got kids
Speaker 1: home with you who are thrilled to get two days
Speaker 1: off from their zoom classes. But if it's just you
Speaker 1: or mostly adults in your household, it's easy to find
Speaker 1: yourself working on Saturday and Sunday as if they were
Speaker 1: no different from the Thursday and Friday you just worked
Speaker 1: your way through. Now, I will never tell people not
Speaker 1: to work on a weekend if you don't have a
Speaker 1: religious prohibition against it. There's nothing inherently wrong with catching
Speaker 1: up on some tasks on a Saturday, or as I'm
Speaker 1: doing right now, writing podcast scripts at seven am on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But for most people to be able to work remotely sustainably,
Speaker 1: it's helpful to maintain some sort of weekly rhythm. To
Speaker 1: be at our best, we need times to rest and recharge.
Speaker 1: Over the longer term, you will probably get more done
Speaker 1: if you're not working a normal work schedule seven days
Speaker 1: a week. To keep work from taking over your weekend,
Speaker 1: you need to do two things. First, if you find
Speaker 1: yourself board, find something non work related to do. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is more challenging if you live in a place
Speaker 1: where leaving the house is still problematic, but it is
Speaker 1: still possible. Remind yourself of your leisure options. Go for
Speaker 1: a walk, call a friend, get absorbed in a good
Speaker 1: book or in practice music, fire up the grill and experiment.
Speaker 1: Don't think of this as frittering away time you could
Speaker 1: be working. Instead, think of it as cross training. Athletes
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Speaker 1: two days a week to maintain a robic capacity while
Speaker 1: minimizing wear and tear. Likewise, as you putter in your garden,
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Speaker 1: your work. Effort Ful fun I seldom wasted. Second, if
Speaker 1: you do need to work over the weekend, or if
Speaker 1: you'd like to invest time in a bigger professional project,
Speaker 1: set some time aside specifically for that. I'm working from
Speaker 1: five thirty am to eight thirty am on Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: so the rest of the day is open. If you
Speaker 1: don't have young kids, you probably don't need to get
Speaker 1: up that early. But if you know that you'll work
Speaker 1: from four to eight pm on Sunday, then you can
Speaker 1: resist the urge to check email the rest of the weekend.
Speaker 1: There's a time for work and it's not now. You'll
Speaker 1: be more focused and efficient and feel more relaxed. Of course,
Speaker 1: part of making weekends special is not treating weekdays like weekends.
Speaker 1: I probably don't have to tell you this, but you're
Speaker 1: best off creating a challenging but doable to do list
Speaker 1: for Tuesday, Wednesday and the rest and knocking those items out.
Speaker 1: If you spend the day surfing the web or organizing
Speaker 1: the pantry, then you'll feel behind and feel like you
Speaker 1: need to work all of Saturday, and the cycle gets messy.
Speaker 1: Building a weekly schedule with time for work and time
Speaker 1: for everything else makes success and personal fulfillment possible, and
Speaker 1: that sounds good to me any day of the week.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura, Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to succeeding in the New Corner Office. The New
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