How Do You Deal With a Car Accident?

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In a normal day, when i get in there's people who may have come into the e r overnight. Ekno, sometimes domestic violence, homelessness. Those are all types of things that iam required to respond to. And then i'd still get phone calls from my manager, from different family members asking questions about school insurance,. There's a lot of action things happening. It is very hard to find the time. When i have that time, i struggle to use it productively. I'd say there's also a bit of an adrenelin peace that comes in when i'm moving around and responding to emergencies.

Why is it that we often wake up with big plans — and seemingly enough energy to complete the tasks on our to-do list — and go to bed lamenting all the unfinished work?

A social worker joins Emily to pose questions about productivity to Alice Boyes, a former clinical psychologist. Alice shares the planning, creativity, and decision making that her success and satisfaction hinges on — and how she manages to ignore everything else. She highlights mental mistakes that prevent people from accomplishing their most meaningful work, and she gives guidance for overcoming them.

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Alice Boyes, a former clinical psychologist, is the author of two books on mental health, The Anxiety Toolkit and The Healthy Mind Toolkit. She’s writing her third book about productivity.

Kate Troutman is a social worker.

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