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Today's tip is to build in travel time, even if all of your

meetings are virtual ones. You will keep yourself on schedule and you might be able to boost your

energy levels too. So back in the old pre-COVID days, people who worked in offices often needed to travel to different meetings.

You would check which conference room you needed to report to for your one o'clock meeting, your two o'clock meeting and so forth.

If you worked for a big enough company,

this could involve a reasonable hike. As a result, meetings either needed to end a few minutes

before the hour, or they would generally all start a few minutes after the hour. This is nothing more than the natural consequence of people

being unable to teleport, but it had some upsides. Namely, people had to stand up and move around

every hour or so. They'd get some steps in. If your office park had different buildings, you might also get some fresh air.

Even if you had back-to-back meetings, there was a little respite, at least for normal people

without the clout to have everyone come to them.

These days, a great many meetings are virtual, and that is awesome. There's less commuting,

less time spent on airplanes, and that is better for people, and better for the environment.

However, there is more of a temptation to have that one o'clock meeting go right up until two o'clock.

And then you quickly click on over to your next link.

Then you go right to three o'clock and boom, you click on the next one.

And maybe you sneak a two-minute bathroom break in there somewhere.

But if people don't need to travel, then you don't

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