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Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the

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Speaker 1: new world of work, where location and hours are more

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Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is to occasionally

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Speaker 1: run an errand during the work day. You don't want

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Speaker 1: to make a habit of it, but sometimes getting out

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Speaker 1: and about in the middle of the day can make

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Speaker 1: a work from home day feel more doable. I know

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Speaker 1: that millions of people have started working from home for

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Speaker 1: the first time over the past few months, which makes

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Speaker 1: all sorts of schedule changes possible. If your normal experience

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Speaker 1: of going to grocery stores or places like Target is

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Speaker 1: right after work or on weekend afternoons, your first trip

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday at ten a m. Is going to blow

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Speaker 1: your mind. There are often more employees than customers in

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Speaker 1: the aisles, everything is well stocked. No one pushes you

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Speaker 1: on the way to the milk case, which actually happened

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Speaker 1: to me once when I hit the grocery store at

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Speaker 1: four p m. On a Saturday. No one likes being

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Speaker 1: shoved at the milk case. So if you start working

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Speaker 1: from home more regularly, it can be tempting to do

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Speaker 1: all your errands on Tuesday at ten a m. And

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Speaker 1: yet most of us who have worked from home for

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Speaker 1: a while go through that phase. But the problem is,

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Speaker 1: if you're working from home, you are working. Taking hours

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Speaker 1: out of the day regularly for errands is not the

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Speaker 1: best way to maximize productivity. You're best off getting things

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Speaker 1: delivered and maybe splitting errands with other family members so

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Speaker 1: no one takes the whole productivity hit. But sometimes when

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Speaker 1: you're in a bit of a rut or trying to

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Speaker 1: mull over a problem, it can be good to hit

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Speaker 1: the grocery store for a midday errand, just because you'll

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Speaker 1: get out of the house, you'll get some physical activity,

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Speaker 1: you'll get something done that probably does need to happen

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Speaker 1: at some point. And there's a funny psychological aspect at

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Speaker 1: play too. When we optimize every single minute, it can

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Speaker 1: trick our brains into feeling like time is scarce. But

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Speaker 1: consciously wasting a little bit of time, taking time to

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Speaker 1: go run an errand in the middle of the day

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Speaker 1: can make you feel like the kind of person for

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Speaker 1: whom time is abundant. And when we feel what time

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Speaker 1: is abundant, we tend to feel more relaxed and see

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Speaker 1: more possibilities. So this week, if you've got a relatively

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Speaker 1: light day, consider skipping out to run an errand you

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Speaker 1: need to do again. Don't make a habit of it,

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Speaker 1: and don't let other people expect it of you. Oh

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Speaker 1: you're working from home, Hey, can you run to the

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Speaker 1: dry cleaners for me? Just no, But if you choose it,

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Speaker 1: you won't lose too much time and you might start

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Speaker 1: to feel you've got a little bit more time to

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Speaker 1: play with in the meantime. This is Laura, thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and here's the succeeding in the New Corner Office. The

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