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Good morning. This is Laura.

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Welcome to the New Corner Office, the

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podcast where we share strategies

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for thriving in the new world of work

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where location and hours

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are more flexible than in the past.

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Today's tip is to make set

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decisions for Mondays so

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you can free up mental space for more

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important matters. I'm

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taking today's tip from Kendra Adachi's

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new book, The Lazy Genius Way. In

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it, she shares strategies for running households

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and life more effectively. She

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writes in the book that Mondays used to be pretty

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rough for her, which I think we can all sympathize

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with. But then she hit upon

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the idea of making a decision once

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and running with that decision again

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and again. She made

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one decision about her outfits and meal

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choices for Mondays and began

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each week wearing and eating the

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same thing as she did the week before. With

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that decision about her Monday outfit and her Monday

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meals made, she could save her

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energy for other things. I

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think this is a great idea. I'm

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sure you've stumbled out of bed Monday mornings

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and stood in front of the closet deciding what to wear.

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If you know the answer is black

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pants and a certain nice shirt, then

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you no longer have to think about this question.

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If you know the answer to what's for dinner

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is pasta. Because it is every

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Monday, you don't have to devote

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brain power to pondering this when

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you could be figuring out how to serve

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a new client. Now,

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of course, you can decide once on stuff

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for any day, but there is

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a particular genius, perhaps

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a lazy genius, to doing this for Monday.

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Many people start the week in a discombobulated

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state. They didn't go to bed on

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time the night before, and so they're tired.

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They know there is a big pile of work waiting

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for them, but they don't know exactly

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what's in the pile, and so

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it is easy to feel fried. And

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that's too bad, because we tend to have more

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energy for anything at the

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start of it. Tackle

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a big project Monday morning and

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the week will be amazing. To

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tackle that big project, though, you

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have to conserve your energy. And

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here's where the Monday choices come into play.

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It's only one day of the week. Wear

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whatever you feel like on Tuesday, but

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having a Monday morning uniform

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means that Monday can be more awesome.

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So today, think about what sort of

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decisions could help you navigate

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Monday. Maybe it's your breakfast

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choices. Maybe it's what you wear

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or what you dress your little kids in. Maybe

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it's what you listen to. Maybe it's what

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workout you do. Maybe it's who

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you call first from work. Maybe

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it's what you watch in the evening. In

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any case, decide once

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for Mondays, and then you don't

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have to decide again. You

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can use your saved energy for

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whatever you like. In

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the meantime. This is Laura,

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Thanks for listening, and here's to succeeding

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in the New Corner Office.

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