Thank you for sharing someone who regularly has to work with teams abroad (in the morning AND evening). It’s really difficult to relate to a lot of routines when this is your life. All suggestions of “get up early to workout or read, or I run after I drop the kids at daycare before my morning starts or I work early but I’m done by 3pm” have always felt like pipe dreams to me. The minute my eyes open, most of my team in the UK is halfway thru their day and just waiting for me to get online. My colleague and I describe the crux of the struggle as you start out your day addressing someone else priorities. You get no time to settle in and tackle anything of your own until much later in the day. When I travel to our London office and work from there it always feels so good being on a more normal workday schedule. Having to go into the office and adding in kids makes it’s super challenging. No great answers other than you seem to be doing amazing and solidarity from a woman in a very similar boat!!
Thank you for sharing someone who regularly has to work with teams abroad (in the morning AND evening). It’s really difficult to relate to a lot of routines when this is your life. All suggestions of “get up early to workout or read, or I run after I drop the kids at daycare before my morning starts or I work early but I’m done by 3pm” have always felt like pipe dreams to me. The minute my eyes open, most of my team in the UK is halfway thru their day and just waiting for me to get online. My colleague and I describe the crux of the struggle as you start out your day addressing someone else priorities. You get no time to settle in and tackle anything of your own until much later in the day. When I travel to our London office and work from there it always feels so good being on a more normal workday schedule. Having to go into the office and adding in kids makes it’s super challenging. No great answers other than you seem to be doing amazing and solidarity from a woman in a very similar boat!!
I am always hoping my toddler wakes up on the right side of the bed!
I’d love to learn more about Claude Cowork to do the morning briefing and meeting prep. What a great use of AI!