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Welcome back to the hair of the dog podcast.

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If you have ever looked at your to-do list and struggled

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or freaked out momentarily,

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then this podcast episode is for you.

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Welcome to the hair of the dog podcast.

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If you are a pet photographer,

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ready to make more money and start living a life by

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your design,

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you've come to the right place.

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And now your host,

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pet photographer,

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travel addict,

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chocolate martini connoisseur,

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Nicole Begley.

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Welcome back to the hair of the dog podcast.

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Everybody. I am your host,

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Nicole Begley.

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And today we have a special podcast episode for you.

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This one is actually featuring none other than our favorite guest,

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Heather Lahtinen.

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And one of the coaching calls she has held inside of

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her community,

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helping her students get things done.

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Now, you know that Heather and I work closely together and

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she coaches inside the academy and is the main person running

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our elevate program.

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And it's just really,

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it's the things that you didn't know that you needed,

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but you,

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then you realize,

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this is what I needed all along that Heather is really

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good at pulling out into the light.

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So today's podcast episode.

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It's actually just a little piece of coaching from one of

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the calls that she was hosting.

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And it is with a student that was feeling well just

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a little bit overwhelmed with their to-do list.

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if you're a human,

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everyone will find this conversation helpful.

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So I wanted to share it with you here today.

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So if you've ever looked at that to-do list and made

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you wanna cry,

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this episode's for you enjoy Last week,

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I held a special training for a group of my photographer,

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friends around productivity and new ways to look at your to-do

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list. I've actually delivered this training to three of the paid

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groups that I lead.

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And I'm wondering if there might be a way to hold

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a training for everyone because it is truly revolutionary,

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but actually that's,

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that's not the focus today,

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per se.

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I'm going to share a conversation I had with my friend,

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Tammy, towards the end of the training that I was leading.

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She had expressed feeling overwhelmed as she showed me her current

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to-do list.

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but she had recently been dealing with several issues that left

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her, unable to tackle anything for several weeks.

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she fell overwhelmed and behind,

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and I'm sure you can relate to this.

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So we're picking up the conversation as she expresses how she

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feels like something is wrong with her because she can't get

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this list under control.

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And I wanted you to hear the strategies that we came

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Take a listen,

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But that week away contracting COVID and then being laid up

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for almost a month because you know,

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it just wipes you out.

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but my list is like,

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honestly, that's my list and it's personal and photography,

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but that's not all the list.

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I, I gotta walk my dog and then I gotta,

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because she's real high energy,

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what is wrong with my time management?

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you jumped Tammy,

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you just made a huge leap from,

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I've got a lot to do to what's wrong with me?

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but you're still putting it on your self of like,

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you're making it sound like you should be doing something you're

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that statement is wrapped up in shame.

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exactly. How did you get beyond that?

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which is great news is you recognize it.

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a shame spiral about how bad you suck.

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cuz could we frame this in the positive?

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because Tony Robbins always says the quality of your life is

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dependent on the quality of your questions.

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is that a good quality question?

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oh, let me give you a list of what's wrong with

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your brain.

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It's only job is to answer those questions.

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So why couldn't we ask it a better question?

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Why couldn't you say,

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there's a big list and you had a season where,

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and it sucks when you're coming off a season like that,

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where things just piled up.

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yeah, this is challenging and that's okay to feel a little

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what could I do right now?

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What could I cross off my list right now in the

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next hour or the next couple of hours that would help

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me to feel better and then you'd do that thing.

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instead of looking at this massive list,

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weeks, months worth of work,

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what could I do right now?

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What could I do right now that would help alleviate some

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of this distress and then you do it.

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oh, why can't I get it together?

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which by the way is a good idea to do I

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love brain dumps,

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get it in a notebook.

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personal and business.

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could you get a highlighter and highlight the ones that are

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like low hanging fruit one hour or less.

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highlight anything that was five minutes or last.

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I wouldn't have to think about what I should do.

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I wouldn't have to think I wanna be the best brain

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highlighted, I would just do it,

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execute. The thinking is what's slowing you down and it's slowing

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I can't even sit down and relax because my list is

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but I'm not.

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Should, did you catch it?

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I should have done that.

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the first step is acknowledgement.

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You cannot fix what you don't acknowledge.

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I'm not asking myself the most productive of questions and I'm

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What can I do right now to alleviate some of this

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I need to sit down and get into the Facebook ads

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manager and figure out why I'm getting this error.

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Okay. Those are two very different tasks.

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towels because it's just all,

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that's the only,

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only mental capacity I have versus I need to save the

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task of Facebook ads for like first thing in the morning,

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on a day when I don't have a lot on my

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schedule, you know,

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I need to set yourself up for success.

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do you have,

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is there a particular time of day?

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You find yourself more productive Morning.

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Yeah, me too.

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Is there a particular day of the week?

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That's more productive.

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but that's my husband's day.

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That's his Saturday.

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Saturday. Right.

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but it's so different than everybody else's schedule.

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Right. That after all these years,

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it's hard to,

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I never used to make that time for him.

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And I just started probably this year.

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So it's hard to get into that mindset after 36 years.

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you could Tuesday morning be your new,

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like I I'm trying to mentally get there.

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That's Fair.

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Sometimes I can do that and I'm not there.

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Right? It's A hard mental shift after all those years.

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I would actually hate it for sure.

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I love Monday morning.

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That's my most productive time.

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let's just say Tuesday morning is your most productive time.

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Now that's when some of these more difficult tasks might need

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to be scheduled.

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Right? So if it's for me,

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if it's like a Friday afternoon,

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that is just not the right time for me to log

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into the ads manager on Facebook.

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It's just not I'm outta my mind.

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Like I wanna be done with it.

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So I recognize that and I place it on my schedule

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where it makes a little bit more sense.

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I tend to record podcast episodes,

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first thing in the morning.

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That's when I'm the freshest.

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Right. I wouldn't do it on a Friday afternoon.

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So there's a component here.

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That's like,

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know the self.

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Yeah. And then understand that all tasks are not created equal

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nor is all like times of the day or days of

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the week created equal.

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So instead of again,

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looking at your brain dump list in your notebook,

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split it out into work in personal highlight things that are

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one hour less,

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maybe use a different color highlighter to highlight things that are

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like tasks versus heavy lifting.

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So towels versus Facebook ads.

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Right? And then you ask yourself a question and when you

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go pick up your list,

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you ask yourself,

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can I be effective right now with a task that I

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consider difficult?

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And then it's an honest answer.

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Yes or no.

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If I can't go fold the towels.

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Right. Does that help?

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It helps.

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Yeah. The actual times of day when I'm most productive,

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I've always known that,

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but yeah,

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that shifts my brain a bit.

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So I,

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I save the towels for the afternoon if I know this,

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right. So like when we're done with this call,

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it's two 30 Eastern right now.

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I, my brain will be done after this call.

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Like there's,

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there's no way I could do any more like heavy lifting

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type work.

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So for me,

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the rest of the day will either be administrative tasks for

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work or folding towels.

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But if I tried to sit down and say,

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you know what,

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I'm gonna record a podcast because I wanna get this one

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done. Or I know what I'm gonna talk about.

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I am setting myself up for struggle,

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resistance, failure,

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like, and I'm doing that to myself.

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Disappointment. I won't show up the same way,

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but I know that.

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And so knowing that helps me delegate my tasks to myself.

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Makes sense.

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Thank you.

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You're welcome.

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You're welcome.

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I hope that you found that helpful.

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Okay. We're gonna do one more thing.

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And If you can,

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I just say really quick,

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something that you are amazing.

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So I need to be in whatever courses you have all

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the time,

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because you're speaking like straight to my core,

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but I love your core,

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Kimberly. I Do that highlighter thing.

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Oh my gosh.

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That I do that all the time.

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I go to look at my brain dump list and it's

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so big that I'm like,

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I, then I get into the list and then I start

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beating myself up because I haven't done those five minutes.

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But to know that it's highlighted and I can just go

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straight to anything that's highlighted.

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Oh my God,

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that just blew my mind.

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And it just made,

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that's so simple.

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And I'm putting a big sign up.

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Sometimes you just gotta fold the towels because boy,

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I give myself grace,

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I love it.

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And you cannot do those big tasks afterwards.

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You're right.

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It is failure.

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And it is beating myself up or whatever.

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And sometimes you just gotta fold the damn towels.

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I love you.

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I love you.

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I love you too.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate that so much.

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Yeah. And that's just learned from over time from beating myself

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up, trying to squeeze tasks in that just weren't working,

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you know,

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and then feeling like crap about it.

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You feel like crap because you didn't get it done.

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Which leads to not great decisions,

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not good mood,

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everybody in your house suffers,

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you know this,

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when you just need to figure out what works best for

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you. Sometimes you just gotta fold the towel.

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Well, did you enjoy that conversation?

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I know I found it extremely useful to help,

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to reframe and be able to take control of that.

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What seemed like never ending list and runaway mind of all

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the things that needed to get done.

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