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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is about a better way to clear the decks.

Rather than burn precious morning energy doing small tasks, you might be able to get through

them before quitting time, the day before.

So as a general practice, I think it is smart to plan out your next day before you end work

for the day the afternoon or evening before.

You take five minutes to look at your calendar for the next day

and figure out what is happening.

You can assign any other pressing tasks around the hard landscape.

By doing this before quitting time, you can be strategic.

Maybe you see that you have a task that is going to take 90 minutes. If your first meeting is at 10.30, you could decide to plow right into that task as

soon as you show up and likely get it done before the meeting. Whereas if you wait until later in the day,

there might not be any 90-minute windows on offer.

And if you didn't plan the day before,

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