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Speaker 1: the love you share with me and this episode. Today,

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Speaker 1: I've been noticing how you all want twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: to be sharing with you all of my personal and

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Speaker 1: And the truth is, no one ever taught us this right.

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Speaker 1: to do. But if you're someone who wants to plan

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Speaker 1: your week and your work week when you're at work,

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Speaker 1: Monday morning is a great time. If you set aside

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Speaker 1: time to do this every week, it will save you hours, weeks,

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Speaker 1: even months of time. I promise you it's a game changer.

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Speaker 1: Getting on with work doesn't get more work done. Planning

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Speaker 1: out your work gets more work done. So that's the key, right.

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Speaker 1: I think so many of us are thinking, oh God,

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Speaker 1: I just got to get on with it. If I

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Speaker 1: get on with it, I'll get more done. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: work that way. Now. There's one thing I really wanted

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Speaker 1: to add because I think it's often not spoken about,

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Speaker 1: have the time for something, but when it gets to it,

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Speaker 1: me and Bradley were talking about this. We love seeing

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Speaker 1: our friends, but we realize that on weeknights we really

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Speaker 1: And so recently I started sharing with my friends who

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Speaker 1: I'd still wanted to see on weeknights, and I said, well,

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Speaker 1: I just need to be in bed by nine pm.

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Speaker 1: I had to set that boundary for myself because what

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Speaker 1: I realized was friends would come over, I would then

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Speaker 1: push myself to stay up till ten or eleven on

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Speaker 1: a weeknight. I'd feel really upset. That I wasn't good

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Speaker 1: company after nine pm because I'm yawning and tired and

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Speaker 1: not as present, And then I'm feeling like I also

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Speaker 1: am missing out on sleep and some thinking to myself, well,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, what is it that I actually need?

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Speaker 1: I want to show up as my best self for others.

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Speaker 1: I want people to have a good time with me,

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Speaker 1: and I want to have a good time with them,

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Speaker 1: and for that, it's not about whether I have the time,

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Speaker 1: It's about whether I have energy. So I want you

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Speaker 1: to also think about your schedule in terms of energy.

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Speaker 1: If you have a meeting, are you setting it at

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Speaker 1: a time when you know your energy is going to

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Speaker 1: be amazing? Think about your most important meetings this week.

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Speaker 1: Are they said at times that you feel you're going

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Speaker 1: to be energetic, enthusiastic and engaged, or are they said

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Speaker 1: at times when you usually switch off get a little

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Speaker 1: bit tired. I also want you to think about what

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Speaker 1: are some of the healthy habits that help with your energy.

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Speaker 1: Do you need to be eating at a particular time?

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Speaker 1: Are there certain foods that actually don't help you focus

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Speaker 1: because you had them at lunch time? You may love

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Speaker 1: them and enjoy them, but have you noticed that you

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Speaker 1: feel that afternoon slump. I know for me that you know,

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Speaker 1: getting a little pick me up in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the day with my June is a great way of

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Speaker 1: getting that little boost. For me of fruit bowl with

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Speaker 1: some almond butter can be a really, really great boost.

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Speaker 1: But what is that thing that's holding you back with

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Speaker 1: your energy? And also when you're mapping out your schedule,

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Speaker 1: are you taking into account energy? If you've got a

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Speaker 1: big pitch, making a big sales meeting, you want to

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Speaker 1: have your best energy. Now, it doesn't always work that way,

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Speaker 1: and you have to also be adaptive, but if you

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Speaker 1: can plan it out, it makes a huge difference. I

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Speaker 1: guess what I'm saying overall is that so many of

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Speaker 1: us are trying to get a lot done. But having

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Speaker 1: a smart plan and a smart focused, organized timer and

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Speaker 1: everything else, can I actually set you up for greater

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Speaker 1: success in the long term. Yes, it takes away from

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Speaker 1: the amount of time you have, but you make more

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Speaker 1: of the time you have. Right. That's what's so powerful

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Speaker 1: about operating with all the things I mentioned today is

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Speaker 1: that you may think, oh, well, that's going to take

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Speaker 1: up two three hours of my Monday Jay. That may

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Speaker 1: take up four hours of mon Monday. But I promise

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Speaker 1: you you're going to get so much more time than that

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Speaker 1: back when you follow through on that process. Now, for

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Speaker 1: those of you are saying, Jay, I just get distracted

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Speaker 1: all the time, I've found that having my phone away

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Speaker 1: when I'm at work, when I'm in meetings is actually

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Speaker 1: really useful. I found my phone to be a distraction

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Speaker 1: unless there's an emergency. Of course, having a special tone

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Speaker 1: for an emergency is the best way to go about it.

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Speaker 1: And allowing yourself to disconnect. Separating your work email and

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Speaker 1: your personal email if you haven't done that already, makes

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Speaker 1: a huge difference or devices that you see both those

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Speaker 1: things on. And the biggest thing I want to remind

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Speaker 1: you all is that we all are going to get distracted.

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Speaker 1: There's no one in the world who doesn't get distracted.

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Speaker 1: I get distracted too, and I found that what's worse

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Speaker 1: is when I start making myself feel bad for getting distracted,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to use that energy to just get refocused.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what helps me more than anything,

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Speaker 1: is saying, look, I'm going to give myself grace. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to get back to it, and I don't need

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Speaker 1: to overcomplicate it. Another thing that's been huge for me

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Speaker 1: is keeping my desk clean. Right. You may have to

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Speaker 1: spend a couple of hours just cleaning up your desk,

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Speaker 1: cleaning up your space, but that's going to give you

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Speaker 1: mental clarity. Your external space has a huge impact on

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Speaker 1: your internal mindset. And that's why I tell people, don't

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Speaker 1: eat at your desk, eat somewhere else, like, don't bring

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Speaker 1: that energy to your desk. Right. A lot of us

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Speaker 1: eat where we're meant to sleep. We sleep where we're

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Speaker 1: meant to work, and we work where we're meant to eat.

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Speaker 1: Leave your bedroom just for sleeping, leave your desk just

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Speaker 1: for working, and leave your kitchen counter just for cooking

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Speaker 1: and eating. Right, break it up and create that energy

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Speaker 1: in that space. Thank you so much. I hope this

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Speaker 1: makes you more productive in twenty twenty four. I hope

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Speaker 1: you get more done this year. I hope you win

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Speaker 1: this year. Thank you so much for listening to on Purpose.

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Speaker 1: Leave a review, make sure you've subscribed and followed, and

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Speaker 1: out there who needs this as well, and maybe you

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Speaker 1: can help each other. Thanks so much, everyone, Susan. If

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Speaker 1: you love this episode. You will also love my interview

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Speaker 1: with Charles Douhig on how to hack your brain, change

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Speaker 1: any habit effortlessly, and the secret to making better decisions. Look,

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Speaker 1: am I hesitating on this because I'm scared of making

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Speaker 1: the choice because I'm scared of doing the work, Or

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Speaker 1: am I sitting with this because it just doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: right yet