This article is a combination of a two-part series from January 2021. You can listen to the first part here, and the second part here.

In any given workday, our goal is typically to get as much done as possible. Often, however, we spend the day feeling frazzled -- hopping reactively between multiple tasks, emails, texts, catch-ups with colleagues, and our physiological needs. By the end of the day, we feel worn out and we often didn’t accomplish all that we’d hoped to at the start of the day, even if we put in heroically long hours because we’re so committed to getting everything done.

Lying in bed after one of these long days, I often find myself thinking that it could have gone very differently…