EP220: Laura Vanderkam - How To Successfully Work From Home

Michael Palmer: So I think that this, you know, working from home is giving people an opportunity to rethink what their job entails and really focus on the results that can happen and not on something like time, which while useful, is not really the ultimate measure of productivity. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a great one. Our returning guest is a time management and productivity expert who has written books about those topics, including her newest one called The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work from Home. Laura Vanderkam, welcome back to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. Well, Laura, it's great to have you and I can't think of a better time to talk about your new book because of what's going on in the world. But before we get into all of that, perhaps share a little bit about yourself for the listener who hasn't heard you on our podcast before and a little bit about your life today in this new reality.

Yeah, so I write books on time management and productivity. I also have a few podcasts. That are related to that topic, Before Breakfast, and this new one, The New Quarter Office, which is also the name of this ebook that came out this summer about how the most successful people work from home. I live outside Philadelphia with my husband and my 5 kids. So the past 6 months or so have featured a lot of us under one roof all the time. But I'm happy to report that over the past month or so, the ranks of us being in the house during the workday have started to thin out considerably as the children slowly go back to school. It's really been quite something. The level of volume has dropped quite a bit, which is making working much more possible than it has been at any point since March. So yeah, I feel like things are slowly, slowly returning to normal. It's incredible what we've all gone through, and so many have been disrupted around the world. Many, many tragic stories and as well some so silver linings in all of this as well, I think, as human beings and being able to