How to Work Smarter

0:28This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. tank top styles and even a dress. Now in new fun summer colors, Flow Y brings a racerback shape to streamline styles you can wear anywhere. Our buttery soft Nulu fabric feels nearly weightless with sweat wicking four-way stretch for comfort you'll want to keep on after practice. Flow freely on and off the mat with light support and refined design. Shop Flow Y now at lululemon.com. A lot of us enjoy being busy, and some of us might even wear it like a badge of honor. But that doesn't mean the work we're doing during those periods is necessarily important work.

1:05So instead of filling our calendars with busy work that will eventually just burn us out, there are ways to be more intentional with our time. Laura Mae Martin, an executive productivity advisor at Google, was interviewed on our HBR idea cast and she has two tips that she says have worked well at one of the biggest organizations in the world I want you to take just a few minutes and look at your calendar over the next few weeks if you have a lot of days with back-to-back meetings it's probably a sign that you have too many priorities right now in this case you should intentionally leave space open in your schedule to decompress and process some of the work you're doing it can help to tell yourself that you're only going to commit to 80 % of the opportunities that that come your way.

1:49Building off of that, we can all probably be more intentional about how we divvy up our time. For instance, if you decide you're gonna do heads down work all afternoon because you have meetings all morning, even though you know that you hit a creative wall in the afternoon, you're letting your schedule control you instead of the other way around. Instead of accepting this, commit to making a change to your schedule moving forward. And a part of that might be telling the people in your professional life and your personal life what you need to be at your best and really just deliver the best work.

2:21Have no fear. Chosen Foods is here to defend your favorite foods from the forces of seedy oils and sketchy ingredients with cooking oils, salad dressings, and mayo, all powered by the good fats from 100 % pure avocado oil and simple, delicious ingredients. Chosen Foods. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for$15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun. If we made$15 bills, but it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch.

2:57Upfront payment of$45 for three months,$90 for six months, or$180 for 12-month plan required. $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial plan term only. Greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms.