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Keep a regular schedule

Keep a regular schedule

- [Instructor] The final thing I've heard about is it's important just to be more scheduled and organized. So in particular with kids at home right now, you have to think about, it's not just you, but also many people in your teams are having struggles with spouses and rotas over who looks after kids. So it's useful to have regular schedules. So you have someone in your team, their husband and they have two young kids, it's much better for her if she knows that she's going to be working, you know, nine till 12, and she can be more relaxed in the afternoon. So actually being more organized because there are more conflicts from our time for those with young kids is a final tip, and I've heard that discussed a lot. And in fact, in particular, avoiding sprawl of meetings and emails that can easily extend out. The fact that we're at home doesn't mean we can easily, we're happy to have a meeting at 7:00 AM or 7:00 PM. We should…

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