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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is about how to transition more easily from one thing to another.

Shifting gears can be hard, but certain techniques can lead to a little less whiplash and a little more satisfaction.

I've realized over the years that some people feel differently about transition and others do.

A tiny boat might be able to turn quickly. A big tanker needs a long time to shift direction.

It's not that one kind of boat is better than the other. They're just built in entirely different ways.

I am more of the tiny sailboat type myself. Over years of working from home and raising five children, I have learned to make use of small bits of time and to consider any hour open for work or home life tasks.

So when I talk about time, with people who are concerned about their work life balance, one of my favorite suggestions is to consider what I call a split shift.

You leave the office on time, spend the evening with young kids who go to bed relatively early, then do some more work at night after the kids go to bed.

That way you're trading off work time for TV time instead of work time for family time. Brilliant, right?

Some people agree with me that this is brilliant. They try it eagerly and tell me how happy they are to spend more time with their kids while still putting in the hours they need to at work. They finally have it all.

Other people think this sounds like the worst idea ever. Once they are done with work for the night, they are done. They are not going to easily turn the oil tanker around.

Starting back up at 8pm makes them feel as one woman wrote, ill with self pity, or more likely just ineffective. By the time they get back into work mode, it would be time to go to bed and they'll have to get out of work mode again.

As an integrator type, I can think the sounds ridiculous, but we all have to know ourselves.

The trouble for the oil tanker types of the world is that life demands a lot of transitions.

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