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<v Speaker 1>Hi, I'm fall from Progressive. Being a baseball fanetic like

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<v Speaker 1>So Progressive is going to help you take your mind

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<v Speaker 1>off your team for a moment. Instead of thinking about

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office,

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<v Speaker 1>the podcast with strategies for thriving in the new world

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<v Speaker 1>of work, where location and ours are more flexible than

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<v Speaker 1>in the past. Today's tip is to create a later list.

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<v Speaker 1>Whether you're working in an office or remotely, it can

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<v Speaker 1>be easy to get distracted, but the nature of the

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<v Speaker 1>distractions are a little different. When you're in an office,

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<v Speaker 1>you might be trying to write a report, but you

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<v Speaker 1>realize you need a particular statistic, so you go searching

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<v Speaker 1>for it online. But then once you're there, you start

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<v Speaker 1>checking headlines in Whoops, there goes your focused worktime. This

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<v Speaker 1>can happen at home too, but there are additional distractions

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<v Speaker 1>that masquerade as productive activities. You start writing that report

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<v Speaker 1>and then you remember that you need to check if

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<v Speaker 1>the hamburger made it out of the freezer and into

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<v Speaker 1>the fridge to thought for dinner. So you pop up

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<v Speaker 1>to go check, and then you see that the kitchen

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<v Speaker 1>is messy. And whoops, there goes your focused work time. Fortunately,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a good way to fend off these kinds of

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<v Speaker 1>distractions and create time for focus in any sort of workplace.

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<v Speaker 1>You just need to create a later list. Here's how

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<v Speaker 1>this works. Keep a notebook next to you as you're working. Then,

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<v Speaker 1>whenever a thought occurs to you of something else you

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<v Speaker 1>need to do or to find, write it down on

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<v Speaker 1>this later list. That way, you won't forget it. Indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>you should designate specific times during the day to look

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<v Speaker 1>at your later list so your brain trusts that you

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely we will deal with anything on it. This gives

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<v Speaker 1>your brain permission to get back to the business at hand,

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<v Speaker 1>secure in the knowledge that the meat will be out

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<v Speaker 1>of the fraser in thirty minutes. That's still enough time

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<v Speaker 1>to defrost by dinner. But you won't have ruined your

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<v Speaker 1>concentration now. To be sure, sometimes our distractions appear to

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<v Speaker 1>be wise for raise away from our project. For instance,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're writing a report and you need a particular

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<v Speaker 1>number that you know is sitting in an email from

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<v Speaker 1>a colleague, it seems like it would make sense to

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<v Speaker 1>go find it. But when have you ever found one

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<v Speaker 1>thing in your inbox? And then completely stopped looking at it.

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<v Speaker 1>You know full well that you'll see an email from

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<v Speaker 1>a big client and think you should open it, and whoops,

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<v Speaker 1>there goes your focused work time. So here's a trick

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<v Speaker 1>that journalists use. If they're waiting for a particular source

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<v Speaker 1>to call them back, they can still get started writing

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<v Speaker 1>the story. They just ride around them missing figure or

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<v Speaker 1>quote by using the initials t K. This means to come.

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<v Speaker 1>The K is a funny way of abbreviating the word come.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't need to worry about the origins of that,

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<v Speaker 1>but the point is that you can stick in the

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<v Speaker 1>initials t K and then know that you will go

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<v Speaker 1>find that statistic later. You don't have to let the

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<v Speaker 1>lack of the exact statistic or quote stop you. You

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<v Speaker 1>put finding the figure on the later list and then

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<v Speaker 1>you keep going making the best use of your time.

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<v Speaker 1>If you try keeping a later list, let me know

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<v Speaker 1>how it goes. You can email me at Laura at

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<v Speaker 1>Laura Vanderkam dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura,

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, and here's the succeeding in the New

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<v Speaker 1>I'm fall from Progressive. Being a baseball fanatic like me

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<v Speaker 1>can be stressful. It's not all sports points and touchdowns.

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<v Speaker 1>So Progressive is going to help you take your mind

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<v Speaker 1>off your team for a moment. Instead of thinking about

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<v Speaker 1>how they missed that gold points score, think about the

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<v Speaker 1>name your Price tool from Progressive, letting you choose coverage

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<v Speaker 1>options based on your budget, unlike your team that missed

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<v Speaker 1>the end zone net area. Well, anyway, hope this distraction

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<v Speaker 1>about Progressives Name your Price tool is helpful. It sure

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<v Speaker 1>kept me from thinking about all those penalty balls sports proggressive,

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