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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,

where location and hours are more flexible

than in the past. Today's tip is to make set decisions for Mondays, so you can free up

mental space for more important matters. I'm taking today's tip from Kendra Adachi's new book, The Lazy Genius Way.

In it, she shares strategies for running households and life more effectively.

She writes in the book that Mondays used to be pretty rough for her, which I think we can

all sympathize with. But then she hit upon the idea of making a decision once and running

with that decision again and again. She made one decision about her outfits and meal choices

for Mondays and began each week wearing and eating the same thing as she did the week before.

With that decision about her Monday outfit

and her Monday meals made, she could save her energy for other things. I think this is a great

idea. I'm sure you've stumbled out of bed Monday mornings and stood in front of the closet deciding

what to wear. If you know the answer is black pants and a certain

nice shirt, then you no longer have to think about this question. If you know the answer to what's for

dinner is pasta, because it is every Monday, you don't have to devote brain power to pondering this,

when you could be figuring out how to serve a new client.

Now, of course, you can decide once on stuff for any day, but there is a particular genius,

perhaps a lazy genius, to doing this for Monday. Many people start the week in a discombobulated

state. They didn't go to bed on time the night before and so they're tired.

They know there is a big pile of work waiting for them, but they don't know exactly what's in the pile.

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