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Welcome. podcasts. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that it is a bad idea to turn a 30 minute task into an hour long one.

You are almost universally better off focusing on one task fully,

rather than trying to fit it into something else.

So as I am recording this episode, people are marking the fourth anniversary of COVID, uprooting daily life for so many of us.

At this point, four years ago, my kids had been out of school for a few weeks already.

We were starting to realize that they weren't going back for the rest of the school year.

I know so many parents had to work remotely with their kids around them for many months.

Wise families soon figured out that if it was at all possible to swap coverage for little kids between parents,

or with older kids, or other relatives,

or with neighbors that you decided to form a pod with, everyone was going to get more done. You can get more done in four focused

hours than you can get done in eight hours when you are being interrupted every few

minutes. Plus there are no good ways to meet the needs of a four-year-old and a client simultaneously.

You wind up feeling frustrated and cranky.

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