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Today, let's talk about how to get the most out of your workday.

I'm not very good at organizing my workdays. I find it hard to get up in the morning, which is why I'm not a plastic surgeon! But the first thing I do when I get up is neatly organize my workspace – it helps me concentrate.

The quote from Peter Drucker is always on my mind: "There's nothing as useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all." So, I set my priorities for the day. If I can delegate a task, I do. I focus on the urgent, time-sensitive duties and defer the rest. Sometimes, all it takes is a little time for problems to sort themselves out.

For example, Winston Churchill, used to work in bed. I may not smoke cigars like he did but I have also discovered the art of comfortably working in my own space, keeping my priorities in mind. This way, I stay productive even when the tasks seem overwhelming.

In this episode, I will share more tips about how to prioritize your workday and get the most out of it.

Talk to you soon!
Malou

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  Hi everyone, Malu speaking. I'm the author of Life's Notebook. Welcome to the Elevation Grid. I speak about career, science, and well-being. Okay, enough. Let's talk. Yeah, how do you structure your day, your work day? I'm not very good at structuring my work days. I have trouble getting up in the morning. And that's why I'm not a plastic surgeon, actually, because I had to get up too early. But I'm up late at night, so everyone listen to me, a future boss, please know that I achieve my objectives nevertheless. But... But so when I get up, I need to have a clean desk. That's very important. And then I look at my priorities. And I always remember a sentence of Peter Drucker, which is, there's nothing as useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all. So that's the first thing I'm thinking. So I set my priorities for the day and if I can delegate something to somebody, I definitely will. If I can do shortcuts, I will do too. I essentially look at what is urgent, what is time sensitive and the rest I let go for another day. There's another day which will come up and I might have more ideas. And sometimes I have also learned that sometimes problems resolve spontaneously. So where I have a big problem today, maybe tomorrow it's gone. It's rare, but it happens. So why not take the opportunity? Winston Churchill. Yeah, I learned from him. Actually, he smokes a cigar. I don't smoke cigar. But what I learned from him is that he works in his bed and he doesn't get, yeah, and I work, I have right in my bed, I have to say. I'm very comfortably installed and this is my office, actually. And Winston Churchill did the same and we get up in the afternoon and then we have dinner at night. But that's our similarities. And he liked champagne. That's also something I do like as a French person, half French, half American.