The New Corner Office: Design your post-pandemic schedule

Upheaval creates a chance to rethink assumptions

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Listen on the I Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or
wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, This is Laura.
Welcome to the New Corner Office, the podcast where we
share strategies for thriving in the new world of war,

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where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.
Today's tip is to spend some time thinking about your
post pandemic schedule. I know a lot of people have
gone through massive upheaval in the past few weeks. Job
losses and economic insecurity could linger for a while, but
in crises there's an opportunity to change things that might

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have been hard to change before. With everything canceled for months,
there's an opportun unity to rebuild schedules from scratch, asking
what deserves to be there, rather than just trimming at
the margins. Many of us are rethinking how we spend
our time these days. Sometimes this is part of necessary
career pivots. I've spent many of my work hours over

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the past few years giving speeches at conferences. That business
model is definitely taking a hit this year, so I
need to figure out something else. Maybe you're needing to
pivot too, or maybe your basic job is safe but
working remotely for the past six weeks has made you
rethink what actually has to happen where you can no

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longer picture driving an hour each way five days a
week to email and call people in other places. Maybe
you've realized that you desperately miss some colleagues, but you're
kind of happy to be physically away from others. Maybe
you've been forced to take on a new job responsibility,
and in the process you've realized that you like it
a lot better than what you were doing before. We

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can have these realizations in our personal lives too. It's
stressful to have kids home seven, but maybe never leaving
the house has caused you to realize that certain extracurricular
activities have consumed a ton of time without any corresponding
boost in happiness. Maybe in the future you'd be willing
to let these things go. In any case, take some

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time this week to picture your post pandemic schedule. I
find it helpful to design a realistic, ideal week, that is,
a week that you could theoretically live within the limits
of the real world. So no flying cars. What kind
of work would you like to be doing, When and
where would you work, who would be involved? How would

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you fill your leisure time? In your family time, what
would you put back into your life, and what isn't
worth the bother? Go ahead and create a real schedule.
I use spreadsheets to track my time, and you might
try using one of these to create your realistic, ideal
week schedule. Mine has the days of the week across
the top Monday to Sunday, and half hour blocks down

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the left hand side from five am to four thirty am,
right when you'll sleep, when you'll do your hobbies, or
a general pattern for the weekends. It's helpful to create
this vision because when normal life resumes, you'll be able
to use this template as a guide. If you see
that you and your family really do enjoy slower mornings,

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this can nut you to decide that remote work is
a non negotiable at least two days a week, or
you can find a different job that's closer to home
or move closer to one you'd like to keep. So
what would you like your post pandemic schedule to look like?
How will you spend your hours? When you know the
answer to these questions, you can turn this vision into reality.

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In the meantime, this is Laura, thanks for listening, and
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