Grace Beverley
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5,485 appearances
26 recordings
6 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Grace Beverley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think it's really easy to let Fridays, particularly if you're working from home, to become a bit of a drift day.
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Which obviously sounds nice in theory, but actually just means that you hit the weekend with loads of unfinished business sitting in the back of your head and in your inbox.
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Like, no wonder you have the Sunday scaries.
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Come on, look at what you did on Friday.
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So at 3 30 p.m.
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or around then, dependent on my commitments, I go into closing shift mode, which means I do the following things.
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Number one, I clear anything that's still sitting on my list or in my approvals.
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Number two, I do a proper check-in across the businesses and make sure that
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Nothing is stuck or waiting for me that hasn't made it into my approvals.
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It might be that I just send out a message to the team or just to some direct reports and say, am I still expecting this today?
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Or is there anything that's going to be coming in for the rest of the day?
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Whatever it might be, just to get really clear on where my efforts should be spent for the rest of the day.
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Number three, I review my calendar for the following week.
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So there are no surprises on Monday morning and no days look completely unachievable that I should have noticed earlier and maybe rejigged some things.
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Number four, which is the big one, I actually write my Monday to-do list.
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This is actually what kills the Sunday scaries.
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You'd maybe think that it would create them because you're looking at your next week, but it is genuinely the opposite.
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I always find that when Monday already has a list, it stops being this daunting unknown and it's just a plan.
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And a plan you've made on Friday means that your brain can genuinely rest over the weekend.
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