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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 learn to measure the day's accomplishments by task, not time.

As this episode is first airing in late March 2020, lots of people are working

from home for the first time in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19.

While some jobs cannot be done remotely, it's turning out that many can, which will have all sorts of ramifications for when life returns to something approaching normal.

That said, just because people can work at home doesn't mean it's easy.

I remember when I first started working from my kitchen table full time

back in 2002.

Before that, I'd always had in the office jobs or had been in school attending classes.

For the first time, I'd wake in the morning and realize that the day in front of me

was somewhat dizzyingly open.

When you go to an office, you feel like you've done something just by changing locations and sitting down at your desk.

You end the day at five or six p.m. because that's what everyone else does. In the absence of that, how did I know

if I'd accomplished anything or not? And I used the word dizzying literally here. I actually felt dizzy. But within a few days I realized that time and

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