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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the new corner office. The podcast where we share strategies

for thriving in the new world of work or location and hours are more flexible than in the past.

Today's tip is about how to strike the right balance between spending money in ways that

buy you time now versus investing money, which can buy you time later.

This tip stems from a question I got from a new corner office listener who manages her own

business. She noted that I write a lot about hiring childcare and outsourcing chores,

even if you work from home. Business owners can also outsource work tasks. In both cases,

the reason is that taking some tasks off your plate means that you can focus on your professional

goals during the hours that you've designated to do that. Of course, outsourcing costs money,

and so the listener noted, well, you are also pretty frugal and you like to spend your time in

money wisely. So I'm wondering how you decided on money spent now for time today and money saved now

for time in the future. The listener said that I'm at the stage in business and life where my

business is starting to make more money but is also needing more time. And so I'm at this weird

fork in the money road. She could invest more for retirement so the money would have time to grow

or she could invest the money in hiring contractors for her business and outsourcing some

personal tasks to free up time and possibly see an investment on that too. So the question,

buy time today or buy time tomorrow. This seems like a tough question but my answer is yes or really

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