Hi, I'm Laura Vandercam. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.

And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator.

We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.

On the Best of Both Worlds Podcast each week, we share stories of how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.

From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career

goals, we want you to get the most out of life.

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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to develop a taste for quality.

You can make your work better by surrounding yourself with good work,

even if it is not all in your immediate field.

Today's tip, like another one this week,

is inspired by Cal Newport's new book, Slow Productivity.

In this book, Slow Productivity. In this book, Cal talks about how you can achieve great things without burnout.

One of the ways to be productive over the long term, he says, is to obsess over quality.

Now, that doesn't mean become a perfectionist.

Nothing is ever perfect.

And eventually we have to publish, perform, ship, or otherwise get things out into the world where the work can be critiqued and thus we can approve.

But it is better to at least try to produce really good work.

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