Lauren Smith Brody

to 11 p.m.

It's so bad for a parent because that's when my kids walk in the door and when I want to be with them.

So what I've learned to do is to do sort of the low-hanging fruit stuff first, actually, to not be a eat-the-frog-for-breakfast person, but I recommend that for others who that works for.

But I will...

Get up, get my kids out the door, walk the dog, come back in.

Still while I'm in either my pajamas or my workout clothes, I will do like the three emails that if I don't do them that day will just haunt me the whole day and sit over my head and be the thing I avoid.

So get those done quickly.

They're not usually hard.

They're just like the thing that needs to get out in order to move somebody else to the next step on something.

Then I will try to exercise.

Oh, no, wait, wait.

Before that, I have a group chat with my mom, my sister, and my dad.

I'm sure you hear this a lot.

And we do Wordle and we do connections.

And the best thing that I am at in my entire life is connections.

So I feel like an immediate sense of pride all day long, no matter how the rest of it goes.

Then I do a little workout.

And when I say little, I mean super little.

I do a Peloton 15-minute or 20-minute weightlifting thing, and I feel really good.

And then I start my meetings.