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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 make

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Speaker 1: set decisions for Monday's so you can free up mental

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Speaker 1: space for more important matters. I'm taking today's tip from

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Speaker 1: Kendra Adachi's new book, The Lazy Genius Way. In it,

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Speaker 1: she shares strategies for running households and life more effectively.

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Speaker 1: She writes in the book that Monday's used to be

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Speaker 1: pretty rough for her, which I think we can all

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Speaker 1: sympathize with. But then she hit upon the idea of

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Speaker 1: making a decision once and running with that decision again

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Speaker 1: and again. She made one decision about her outfits and

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Speaker 1: meal choices for Mondays and began each week wearing and

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Speaker 1: eating the same thing as she did the week before.

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Speaker 1: With that decision about her Monday outfit and her Monday

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Speaker 1: meals made, she could save her energy for other things.

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Speaker 1: I think this is a great idea. I'm sure you've

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Speaker 1: stumbled out of bed Monday mornings and stood in front

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Speaker 1: of the closet deciding what to wear. If you know

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Speaker 1: the answer is black pants and a certain nice shirt,

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Speaker 1: then you no longer have to think about this question.

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Speaker 1: If you know the answer to what's for dinner is pasta.

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Speaker 1: Because it is every Monday, you don't have to devote

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Speaker 1: brain power to pondering this when you could be figuring

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Speaker 1: out how to serve a new client. Now, of course,

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Speaker 1: you can decide once on stuff for any day, but

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Speaker 1: there is a particular genius, perhaps a lazy genius, to

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Speaker 1: doing this for Monday. Many people start the week in

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Speaker 1: a discombobulated state. They didn't go to bed on time

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Speaker 1: the night before, and so they're tired. They know there

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Speaker 1: is a big pile of work waiting for them, but

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Speaker 1: they don't know exactly what's in the pile, and so

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Speaker 1: it is easy to feel fried. And that's too bad,

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Speaker 1: because we tend to have more energy for anything at

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Speaker 1: the start of it. Tackle a big project Monday morning

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Speaker 1: and the week will be amazing. To tackle that big project, though,

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Speaker 1: you have to conserve your energy. And here's where the

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Speaker 1: Monday choices come into play. It's only one day of

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Speaker 1: the week where whatever you feel like on Tuesday, but

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Speaker 1: having a Monday morning uniform means that Monday can be

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Speaker 1: more awesome. So today, think about what sort of decisions

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Speaker 1: could help you navigate Monday. Maybe it's your breakfast choices.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's what you wear or what you dress your

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Speaker 1: little kids in. Maybe it's what you listen to. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's what work out you do. Maybe it's who you

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Speaker 1: call first from work. Maybe it's what you watch in

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Speaker 1: the evening. In any case, decide once for Mondays and

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Speaker 1: then you don't have to decide again. You can use

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Speaker 1: your saved energy for whatever you like. In the meantime.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura, thanks for listening, and here's the succeeding

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