Podcast EP. 50 Empower & Execute: Mastering Work-Life Harmony for the Busy Modern Woman - Boosting Productivity in Hybrid Work

Join me, Smilie Filomeno Rodriguez, as we explore the secrets to balancing a demanding career and personal life in hybrid work environments. This episode will discuss self-discovery, self-love, and self-empowerment tailored for modern women. We will cover how to seamlessly switch between professional and personal spaces while effectively managing your schedule. We will draw upon recent market research to highlight hybrid work's unique challenges and benefits, especially for women.

We will explore how to use technology to boost productivity with tools like phone reminders and alarms. By incorporating regular breaks, stretching, and mindful walks, you can maintain high productivity without burning out. Additionally, we will discuss the importance of creating an organized, distraction-free workspace to enhance focus and achieve a better work-life balance. These practical tips are designed to help you thrive at home and in the office.

Finally, we will unpack self-advocacy and boundary-setting, essential for maintaining mental well-being in a hybrid work setting. We will discuss incorporating meditation, physical activities, and structured routines to reduce anxiety and improve overall mental health. Learning to say no, delegate tasks, and communicate your needs effectively can help you avoid feeling overwhelmed. You can lead a fulfilling and balanced life by prioritizing self-care and making proactive adjustments. Tune in to empower yourself and take actionable steps toward becoming the best version of yourself.

Chapters

• 0:05 Boosting Productivity for Modern Women
• 14:34 Improving Work Efficiency and Wellness
• 25:37 Mindful Practices for Work-Life Balance
• 35:55 Self-Advocacy and Setting Boundaries

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:05

Hola, boss Chica. Welcome to the Smiley Empowerment Podcast. This is where we celebrate the strength, resilience and determination of Latina women and all women who are constantly on the go, pushing through challenges and achieving their goals. I like to call these women Boss Chica. Like me, if you're a busy woman ready to be uplifted, inspired, empowered to take charge of your healing journey and be a Boss Chica, you've come to the right place. We can all agree, life can be hectic and overwhelming, but anything is possible with the right mindset, attitude, tools and support. Let me introduce myself.

Speaker 1: 0:45

My name is Smiley Filomeno Rodriguez and I am a Latina life empowerment coach and a social worker. I started this podcast because I know what feeling alone and overwhelmed with past wounds and challenges feel like. I want to help you with self-discovery, self-love and self-empowerment so you can grow and thrive. Do you sometimes feel alone, desiente sola? Well, you're not alone. No, estas sola. You have me, your coach, smiley. In each episode, I'll share personal stories of resilient healing, tips, practical advice, strategies for managing your time and priorities for improving your relationship with yourself and others, and insights on cultivating a positive and fulfilling joyful life. So grab your earbuds and tea or coffee, take a deep breath and get ready to be inspired and encouraged. Let's begin this journey together and empower each other to become the best versions of our lives. Let's get started. You got this.

Speaker 2: 2:13

Hello, hello, welcome back. It's been a while, welcome back. I want to put at the top of this episode a disclaimer. If you hear my neighbors, they're having a barbecue here in the States at the time of my recording. It's a holiday weekend and everyone is doing barbecues and gatherings, and each time I'm going to record there seems to be a gathering right at the precise time, and I did not want to hold off this episode any longer. So if you do, at any time, listen to that, just take it in as people having a good time and enjoying themselves, and I hope that you have been enjoying yourself too. Wherever you are at, I hope you're having a great time.

Speaker 2: 2:49

This episode I want to address if you are a busy modern woman, or a busy human being at that, and you want to boost your productivity while you're doing hybrid work hybrid work that is so important. I've heard many clients of mine and people that are doing a lot of hybrid work like they may be sometime at home and sometime of their work time in the office, and then we have other individuals that are completely working from home, or, if they are entrepreneurs, they're working from their place of business or from a remote place. Some entrepreneurs are even working from their vacation homes and travel, and that is great. I wanted to offer you key tools that you can use if you're trying to boost your productivity, especially if you're a busy, modern woman and you find yourself in a situation where you are working from home and, at times, you go to the office. What I've learned is that there's been some recent market research that have shown that many women have positively reported that they're experiencing a hybrid work environment positively. According to a survey, some of these women are still going through challenges. According to the survey that I was reading, still there are women that are reporting that they're having challenges and that they have improved their hybrid work experience. However, this past year, they've seen improvement, but they're still struggling despite those improvements. So if this is you that, whether you're a woman or whether you're an individual who's working from home as well as working in the office and you're managing both that hybrid schedule that can be a bit of a challenge, right? So if you're experiencing these challenges, this episode is for you, or send it to someone that you feel that they may get great benefit from this episode, because switching from work to managing our own personal lives and our commitments. It's crucial, right? It's like, even if you're not working at home and you find yourself that you are having difficulty switching off from the hat of work mode to your personal life. Right, you're not alone. Many of us have experienced that.

Speaker 2: 5:24

I'm a full-time entrepreneur. A lot of my work is online, with my clients, as well as going into different spaces, conferences and things like that. But there are times that even myself I may experience this difficulty of when do I switch off work mode? Right, and in my previous job, there was a time period during the pandemic where we did some hybrid work as well, and my former staff and myself we really had to work on how to pivot and work with the upcoming challenges that that would bring up. When you're working from home, the space right, and you may not have a dedicated space for the work, so it gets very confusing when do you stop right the work? And having that feeling of I'm at home in the same space where I do work, and it can be hard. It could be very hard to separate that from your personal life as well, as if you're living with other individuals in your home other people family members, kids, roommates it can also be a critical factor for you in your personal life, with your friendships, your roommates, your family as well. So this research really showed that it's specifically we're speaking about women, but I imagine that many, many people may be experiencing this as well, where they have difficulty switching.

Speaker 2: 6:50

Also, I saw another research from the Pew Research Center. They had a survey highlight that's that pointed out that 71% of teleworkers believe that working from home helps them balance their work and personal lives, emphasizing the benefits of flexible work arrangements in maintaining a life balance, which I like to call instead of a work-life balance, I like to refer to it a work-life harmony. Right, having harmony within your day, separating the work life with your personal life. So if that's you, or you know someone, keep listening, because I want to dive into a few strategies for mastering your work. So stay tuned.

Speaker 2: 7:35

Let's dive into a few strategies for mastering work-life harmony and boosting productivity, because it's so important for us to always remain productive. But as well, I want to emphasize, our mental wellness is important as well. To keep ourselves in harmony, to keep ourselves well-adjusted to the different tasks that we have during the day, and we juggle a lot, and if you are out there and you're finding that you're like. Listen, I have a hybrid schedule. I believe that it's been very pleasant for my life. However, I still struggle with the productivity. So I want to offer you some effective strategies to boost your productivity, and I know that these tips will help you. These strategies will benefit you.

Speaker 2: 8:24

So let's start with. The first one is to learn how to prioritize your task and if you already do this well, thumbs up, keep doing it. That is awesome. So the first step, like I said, is to prioritize your task Really. Look at what is important in the day. What do you want to tackle? I like to say the one two. I used to do this with my former staff and I would say listen, when there's a lot to do, let's pick the first two that we want to do in the day and tackle it. One, two, one, two. It's like a nice rhythm that means that you do not put multiple items on your desk If they're reports and files and papers or even have multiple tabs open on the computer. You're just going to focus on two and one at a time and then check that off and then you do the second. That's why I like to call it the one two, one, two. We even had the rhythm of like one, two, one, two. And let me tell you something when you're intentional about that, it works. So prioritize your task. It really helps you to de-stress yourself. By organizing those tasks that you have, it becomes more manageable.

Speaker 2: 9:32

Okay, and then pay attention to what is critical, what is most important. That's the task that you want to do at the beginning of the day. There might be other tasks and goals that you have and I know you don't want to overlook them, but the most important thing is for you to prioritize your day. Go with one to two tasks at a time. I would say, tackle the first two tasks that I would say that would involve more of your brain work. Do that. Okay.

Speaker 2: 10:01

If you find that that doesn't work for you, these are just suggestions. You can play around with this. If you find that that doesn't work for you, these are just suggestions. You can play around with this. If you want to take the harder tasks later in the day, that's great, but it shows that our brain starts losing this focus already right after lunch, about two or three o'clock, we become a little bit like, wow, we need that coffee or go take a walk to get us back in track because we start depleting our energy, right? So it's important to tackle the most important tasks that maybe take a little longer. For you to do it earlier. That's just a suggestion, okay, then I want you to be very specific about your working hours.

Speaker 2: 10:45

Some of us, right, when we are working in a hybrid schedule, if you're reporting back to work, okay, right, we're not very clear, so you may find that you're not clear with your hours. If your employer tells you that these are your work schedule, right, let's to keep it simple a nine to five with an hour of lunch, then stick to those hours as much as possible. I can tell you that what burns us out is when we overwork ourselves, and I understand that there are deadlines, there's things that may happen out of your control, that you need to stay longer, but do your best to be very intentional. Practice this for the next, I would say, for the next 30 days. Follow these strategies and add on any other strategies that may bring value to you and help you for 30 days and, every week, document the difference so you can see Now. Don't do this for one week or two and say, oh, this doesn't work. You have to stick with it, okay.

Speaker 2: 11:45

So secondly, be very specific about those hours that you create, because it's important for our brain to have the routine and predictability right. This helps us to keep ourselves focused. We already know what's coming next, what we're going to do. So when you work from nine to five, stick to that, because when you engage in those hours, those are the hours that you give to work. Once you're off those hours right, this is when your personal time begins. So if you get into the habit of working two to three hours on top of your work schedule just because you want to catch up and you want to do things, this will only get you to start building this notion of overwhelmment. That's the beginnings of the burnout.

Speaker 2: 12:34

So if you stick to specific working hours routinely, of course there might be one or two times that you, because of something urgent that comes up or something that you're like I really have to pay attention to this and I have to work another hour or two. But don't make it the routine. The routine will be for you to stick to the hours that you have for the workday. That will tremendously help you to improve your focus during the hours, because once you're working with that you know that at five o'clock you're disengaging, right. At five o'clock you're out, and if you're self-employed or you're an entrepreneur, set some hours as well so you can know that from this time to this time that's my work, right, and then after that you switch off and it's your personal time. When you get accustomed to do that, your body, your brain, everything will start flowing so much better because you're not draining yourself, you're not straining your brain of energy and your body. Okay, all right.

Speaker 2: 13:39

So then I want you to examine and look really, what are you working with in technology, I would say, for helping you with managing your time? One thing that I've noticed is that when we work hybrid, there could be times, even if you don't work hybrid schedule, where you find yourself out of focus. You find yourself that you may be disorganized. So I would encourage you to look at for yourself how are you managing your time? Use for leverage the technology that you have right so it can help you to make a better work process for yourself. So make sure that if you have different systems to help you, like your calendar that you have it might be Outlook, it might be another type of calendar that you and your agency use, use it, make sure that you use it.

Speaker 2: 14:34

You can monitor even how much time you spend in a task, even by using your phone. If you find that you don't have a lot of tools within the agency you have, or for yourself, even your phone is a tool, right, you can set alarms for different tasks. So like that you're like, wait a minute, I don't want to overwork myself on this task. So like that you're like, wait a minute, I don't want to overwork myself on this task. Because sometimes there's tasks that you may have them for a few weeks or a week at a time. So you just want to spend increments of time tackling it and then making sure you can set an alarm to say, okay, I'm going to tackle this task for 30 minutes and then I'm going to put it down and work on the next one. So you can really leverage technology to help you processing this, processing your work. And it's amazing the benefits of using technology it saves you time. You can really take that time that it saves you to add it to your personal time, because the more you get into efficiency, the more you get very organized. It will buy you time that then you can spend with your family, your friends, in personal activities, or you can then feel more at ease and have a more restful night knowing that things are organized and they're controlled right, and that will boost your own level of satisfaction, for you to feel proud about yourself, and it also will be boosting your productivity. Put it to the test, okay.

Speaker 2: 16:04

Next, I want to ask you, when you're working from home, especially in a hybrid model how often do you take breaks? And if you're working in the office, it's the same question how often do you take breaks? Do you take regular breaks? Are you one that don't take breaks at all? I want to address this because I, for one, was someone that when I worked in a nine to five before, I did not take breaks much. I would tell my staff to take breaks, but that was something that I needed to improve because I would model what it was not to take breaks, and what happens with that is that you become very overwhelmed and it can reflect in different ways.

Speaker 2: 16:44

Right, even though you are producing and you are a great person that works very effectively, you may start feeling like you're not concentrating a bit and you may start feeling the signs of burnout soon approaching, or even just complete burnout. So managing yourself with your time and taking regular breaks helps you to really refresh your mind, to reset it. It makes you feel and be more effective as an individual, as you are going back to the task that you have to do once you take a break. So this may look like for you to take short walks. Right, if you're working from home, you may want to step outside of your home and go for a short walk. That could be 10 minutes.

Speaker 2: 17:35

Be intentional about the walk, right, look up. Look up to the sky. Doesn't matter if it's a sunny or rainy day, whichever it is, just look up. Take deep breaths when you're outside. Change the environment, do that 10-minute walk and that's a 10-minute break. Do some stretches if you would like right, you can also do that and just be very mindful. You could, as you're walking, just be very mindful of your breathing and of each step that you're taking, one foot in front of the other. When you focus on that, that's not the time in the regular walk to look at texts from work. That's not what I would want you to do in this regular walk, taking this break. I want you to focus on your breathing, focus on nature, looking up to the skies If you have trees around, whatever that may be and taking deep breaths. That will regulate you and help you with your concentration when you return to your working space. Now you are more refreshed, right, and this will prevent burnout. Trust me, it does.

Speaker 2: 18:40

So take those regular breaks. If you live in a place where it's too cold outside and you're like I don't want to be out, then take a regular break by getting up from the space where you're at, taking another walk to another area of the space and possibly listening to some music that makes you feel good. Drink some refreshing water, take some deep breaths, right, just take your eyes off the monitors and get away. Get up, stretch. You could do some stretching. So it's so important to do regular breaks. It's extremely important for that. This will really help you to boost your concentration and prevent burnout. We want to do a lot of prevention, but many times we don't even focus on this. So you may be listening to this and saying, oh wow, these are just things that I already knew, but are you doing them? Are you practicing them? They're so simple that we neglect to practice them. I include myself, because there are times I have to remind myself of this. So it's so important, as you're working hybrid, to take those regular breaks, whether you're in the home or in the office space.

Speaker 2: 19:54

Okay, next, I want you to take a look at your dedicated workspace what is on your desk? And if you are in the office, completely in the office, it's fine If you are hybrid, which that's what this episode is most about, but it also applies if you're working from home, an entrepreneur, or working from a hybrid schedule. I want you just to look at your working space, right, what is that dedicated space that you have for yourself? And I want you to look at how is it? Is it organized? Is it disorganized? Is it free from personal knickknacks that you may have and distractions? It's important to look at your space and work on improving that space. So make sure that your space, whatever it is, if it's at home, if it's the, if it's a kitchen table that you organize that.

Speaker 2: 20:48

Remember I just said at the top of the episode take two tasks at a time. One, two. That means you shouldn't have a lot of paper on your desk with different files, right? You shouldn't have a lot of tabs open on the computer, because all of that it's eating up your energy. The brain has to do more overwork when it's tagging all of these items that we're looking through our eyes and we're taking this information in. So, even if you're saying but I'm not focused on all those stacks of books that are on top of my desk and the other files, yes, but your brain is and it's picking it up.

Speaker 2: 21:23

I saw a study, actually an episode I believe. I don't know if it was either Netflix or if it was YouTube, but I saw a study that they explained how we feel most relaxed when we go stay in a hotel and we're on vacation and primarily, it is that the moment that you step into that room, your brain relaxes because there's not many things in that room for the brain to have to label with colors and distinctions of what it is, whether you're focused on it or not. So automatically you feel relaxed because the brain recognizes there's not much work that it's doing. It's like an engine, right, so it's not overworked. But when we have many items on our desk, many items, and I'm one that that sometimes happens. So I have to always remind myself of that study that I saw, because the benefits are amazing. That's what you want to feel, and you can feel more relaxed, even though that you're working from home or in your office space.

Speaker 2: 22:23

Take a look at your dedicated workspace, look what you can improve right. There's so many YouTube videos out there and just many other resources that can help you with redecorating your space, making it more efficient. So I want you to take the time to look at your space and notice what can be improved. Okay, and I want you to organize your workspace for it to reflect a more harmonious work time Okay, and this is all going to improve your mental health as well. It will help you to be more focused, to be more effective, because it will help you psychologically to separate yourself from your personal life.

Speaker 2: 23:07

So when you dedicate a space and you organize it and dedicate that space in your home for work, then you can say, okay, this is the workspace that I have and I created this workspace to help me to do my work. Once the work is done, then what you can do is close your laptop, put it away. If the dedicated space, it's still a little enmeshed with your personal space just maybe even put a sign, put a sign up. You could type up something and print it that says closed, done with work. And you can put that because I do understand that some of you work in home spaces where it's very much the same space, the same table that you use to work during the day, so you can clear out if you can put the laptop away, if it's a desktop that you have in the dedicated space, like maybe in your living room. That's why I said you can put a sign and I think that they have cute signs that you can make or purchase where it says you off the clock or something that's just reminding you. It could be cute, you can put something nice, but it's just reminding you, that's it, I'm off the clock, okay.

Speaker 2: 24:18

So transitioning from your work to your personal can feel very overwhelming. So these strategies that I offer you, I hope that they can help you to start organizing yourself better and making that transition from work to personal life a bit better, and that your space also is more accommodating, to helping you feel less stress and when you're transitioning from the mode of now you ending the work day and you're beginning your personal time. I wanted to offer you also a few strategies to help you to be very much present in your personal time. Number one thing it's healthy boundaries. You have to establish healthy boundaries and routines that you stick with to end the day right. So that could be like I mentioned earlier you could be thoughtful and intentional about putting laptops away, putting files and papers away. Make sure that you're turning off and shutting down the monitors, right, if you have a desktop and you can't put the desk away, the desktop away, but make sure at least that you're turning it off. You can even have a screen time that says personal time off the clock, something like that. Right To really get you to think and know that this is now your personal time off the clock, something like that. Right To really get you to think and know that this is now your personal time.

Speaker 2: 25:37

Okay, so it's so important to do that as well as make sure that when you're ending your day, you change your clothes. That's another technique that you can use If you're at home and you work from home. Change your clothes, change into a more relaxed wear, get some plans that after work, you're probably going to go for a walk or go to the gym, but automatically shift and change your mindset by changing your clothes. Your clothes attire If you are coming home from work because you don't work in the home the same thing. Because when you stay in your working clothes and I've done it and I know you may have been guilty of this too, no matter what it's still a symbol, unconsciously, that you're still involved in the work time, even when your family is talking with you and addressing with you or your friends and you're in work clothes. When you get home especially, it just reminds them also oh, you're in work mode still. I remember home especially. It just reminds them also oh, you're in work mode still.

Speaker 2: 26:37

I remember when I used to come home from work, many times I would stay with my work clothes and my husband would tell me he was like oh, you're still working, what's going on? And it's interesting, I would be checking my texts, my emails from work when I was already home. So I think shifting my mindset required me to take off my clothes, get into more comfortable clothes. Also have plans after, when you are intentional about your week and say you know what, after work, at five o'clock, I'm going to do X and Y, I'm going to do something, an activity, meet up with someone and you could even change your clothes. I've known people that they take clothes to work. If you're in the office and change your clothes, make it more fun, more light, so you can already disengage from the thought of work. It's so important to do that. So engage in physical activities after work. That really helps to reduce your stress. And make sure that you set those boundaries, keeping those boundaries of the work time right when you stop looking at emails from work when your workday is over. And I also want you to practice being more intentional about relaxing yourself.

Speaker 2: 27:50

So you may be one that you're like very overwhelmed with hybrid schedule or working from home. You may feel a bit isolated at times. You may feel a little overwhelmed because maybe you are hyper-focused when you're home. Some of us, when we work from home, we're so much more focused because there's not a lot of other activity with other individuals. It all depends. Some of you work from home, there's too many distractions, and then you have to have boundaries with family members or your kids to let them know this is from this time to this time I'm working, and maybe you could set some breaks where then you can speak to your family or your kids, if you have little ones that are at home.

Speaker 2: 28:27

But I want you to be more intentional about having this calmness come over you. And how you can do that is by incorporating this model of meditating at the end of the workday and even in the middle of the workday as a break, because that allows your mind to calm down a bit. It reduces some of that stress that you have even midday or towards the end of the day, and then towards the end of the day completely you can get into the habit of doing a little bit of meditation before you engage in more personal activities with family and friends. Because what I want you to do is to get into the habit. If it could be daily, a daily practice would be even better. Get into the habit if it could be daily, a daily practice would be even better to silence your mind a little bit, calm it and give yourself the space to not be with anyone, to not have to answer to anyone at the moment, and just be you with yourself, just calm and at peace, feeling proud about the work that you just finished and feeling proud that you're now going to have this time for yourself and engage in any other personal activity. So it's so important to practice being intentional about your meditation practice, being more mindful.

Speaker 2: 29:52

Practice some short meditations you can do. It could even be as simple as you know what. When I finish work, I change my clothes and I just sit in the bathroom just for a few minutes, taking some deep breaths, focusing on my breath, listening to some nice soothing music right, and if you want to get very pumped, you can listen to music that is more uplifting and that gets you moving, if you're going to go out for a walk as well. But what I want you to do is to calm your mind a bit, okay, and failing to do these things, these strategies, you don't have to do these particularly, but when you are not taking care of yourself, what happens is burnout, or at least reduce the amount of time that, the amount of frequency that you feel burnt out. Okay, and also, you may notice that when you have poor quality of work with your schedule and your burnout, you may start noticing that your anxiety increases. You might start noticing that you may be a bit depressed or sadness creeps in, right? So just make sure that you work on yourself, because burnout and stress are really the leading factor for us to decline on our mental health and increase our anxiety, our depression. So you want to reduce the possibilities of burnout by improving your work quality at home, by improving your work quality in the office, in your personal life, right. So make sure that you are working on learning when to say no, when to say no to a project or needing more help or delegating or asking for help when it's needed Many times at work, even in hybrid, when you're working from home, you may feel overwhelmed.

Speaker 2: 32:04

You may not have access completely always to in-person team members. That can make you feel a bit overwhelmed. So be very clear about what your needs are can make you feel a bit overwhelmed. So be very clear about what your needs are. Have those discussions with management. If you're self-employed or you're your own entrepreneur, your own boss, it makes it a bit more challenging because it's you. But then have a conversation with yourself. And if you have a team of people, even if you're working for yourself, even if it's one person you have a virtual assistant or you have someone who's helping you on your team whether it's one person, you have a virtual assistant or you have someone who's helping you on your team, whether it's one or a few have open dialogue about what your needs are, but, especially if you're working hybrid or any type of remote work.

Speaker 2: 32:45

Structuring that schedule is so important. Establishing those boundaries of when the work ends is so important. Boundaries of when the work ends, it's so important. Using technology like Google calendars right, to block off some times and assign your tasks to yourself with timeframes it's so, so important. And really take the time for yourself, take breaks during the day and leverage those technologies that you can use. You can use alarm clocks, right, not alarm clocks per se, like the old times, but the alarm clocks on your phone. You can use that. And it's so important to set those boundaries. And use technology that you may have with your employer. Or, if you're an entrepreneur, you may be using Asana, you may be using Zoom for scheduling meetings. Just be very mindful of scheduling things with timeframe, so like that you're not feeling all over the place and know when you need to possibly say no to certain events, certain tasks that maybe you can delegate to someone else, or that you don't always have to jump in and say I'll do it.

Speaker 2: 33:53

Some of us get into the habit of wanting to please our bosses, wanting to please our family, our friends right, but we have to see how much can we handle. And yes, multitasking people get praise for it, but we need to do less of that and be doing more effective, concrete tasks at a time. One at a time, right, one at a time. One moment at a time, and you will start noticing the difference. So let me know how did you like this episode. Let me know in the comments. Make sure that you are following me.

Speaker 2: 34:29

If you love my content and you appreciate it and you find it helpful, share it with others and I'm on Instagram right, I'm across social media at this moment and take the benefits right From listening to some of the other previous episodes, depending what you are interested in, because I have so many. This is the 50th episode. I'm so proud there's so many of you tuning in. Thank you for all the support across the United States. I love the support that I'm having from Puerto Rico. I love the international support as well, with the listeners in different areas and countries. I appreciate it. Continue helping me to grow the podcast and grow across social media is amazing. It's amazing to grow because that means I'm touching more lives. That's my mission to help more people. Also learning and meeting new people on social media, on the platforms right, exchanging, learning, growing because I also grow with you guys. I also learn from you guys. So I hope that this episode helps you to boost your productivity, especially if you're working hybrid or working remote, and if you find yourself struggling keeping a work-life harmony, keeping that peace within yourself, because you find that you're all over the place.

Speaker 2: 35:55

You're not alone.

Speaker 2: 35:56

But you have to be proactive for yourself.

Speaker 2: 35:59

You have to be the one advocating for yourself. I can offer you these tools, these strategies, and please let us know. Share with us in the comments, share with us, email me, share with us what are some of the strategies that have been helpful for you. But remember, you have to make the change. You have to set those boundaries and stick to them.

Speaker 2: 36:22

Boundaries for yourself, for your employer, for your colleagues, for your family, for your friends. For yourself, because we love to be very successful and we love to help others at times, but we have to help ourselves first. So make sure that you follow these strategies. Put them to the test for 30 days, see how you feel. There are suggestions. You can always alter them. You can always add other strategies that are helpful. I would love to learn what strategies help you to manage your time, especially if you're working hybrid or remote, so take good care of yourself. Let me know in the comments how you like this and I will catch you in the next one, but till then, make sure that you're taking care of yourself and of each other. Take good care Besitos.