Laura Vanderkam: Smarter Ways to WFH (Work From Home)

“You were probably not hired because of your rapid email response time.”

“There's almost nothing that has to be responded to in less than an hour.”

“A lot of people use Monday mornings but the problem is when we show up at work Monday morning we're like go time.”

“There's a bigger opportunity cost for Monday morning than for Friday afternoon.”

“Monday mornings are actually a really good time to carve out for your biggest value work.”

“You're not gonna do it at Friday at 3 p.m. like let's just be honest.”

“You need some place where you can expect that it will be quiet and where you can focus.”

“If that's your power scent, why not?”

“Your job is not just making sure that the work gets done... you need people to do the work and you want people motivated.”

“Professional social events should have been facilitated in the past—they just weren't.”

“People are doing it now without childcare feel hurried and frazzled and pulled in a million directions at once.”

“You want your to-do list to represent things that you actually intend to do.”

“Guess what stuff is going to come up like things are going to happen.”

“Walking around the block but something to give yourself a little bit of permission to relax.”

“A mock commute is something that's much shorter and more pleasant but still introduces that same separation.”

“Making a list of 100 dreams... is an unedited list of anything you might want to spend more time doing.”

“If you tell yourself I have all the time I need for what is important to me, well you know we see what we choose…”

“An ideal week is the cycle of life as we actually live it.”