Today I'm going to share my two favorite work habits. And that is how I start my work day and how I

finish my work day. And I'm just going to go ahead and put this out there. They're pretty nerdy.

Some of you are probably going to laugh and be like, I'm never going to do that. And that's fine.

But they've worked for me and I really like them. And I'm trying to get back to them after this fourth baby.

It takes a little bit to kind of get them in your system again.

But I tell you what, when you can rock these routines, your work day is amazing.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 154.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that's where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well,

which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

Listen in. Thank you. learning to work and play well which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life listen in what i love about these work routines that i'm about to share with you is they really do help your work and your play

because i found that if i have a routine to kind of start off my

work mode and then wrap up my work mode, it helps me turn off my work brain and be really present

to play and be home and just feel like my work is done, which that's a hard thing to accomplish.

But that's what I want to share with you today. So let's jump in and I'll first talk about how I start my work day.

I don't know. I should have a name for this. My kickoff routine, well, it already has a name actually

because I got it from the book two second lien. And a lot of lean practices do this and it's called the three S's.

So I'm going to kind of explain what the three Ss stand for and that is sort, sweep, and

standardize. And lean businesses do this because they say it really sets you up for success

while you're working. First, let's talk about sort. So sort means to sort, like to sort through

your stuff. And I mean, your literal stuff, your junk, your stuff that's cluttering up your desk,

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