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I Don't Do Early Meetings

Name: I Don't Do Early Meetings
Uploaded: 2025-06-14T03:00:50+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this concise monologue, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP explains her personal productivity rule of avoiding morning meetings because they disrupt deep‑work flow…

14 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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In this concise monologue, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP explains her personal productivity rule of avoiding morning meetings because they disrupt deep‑work flow. She outlines a scheduling method where any meeting that must happen is placed at the end of the day, then the next meeting is scheduled just before it, and so on, moving backwards from the desired finish time. This "back‑to‑front" approach guarantees a large uninterrupted block of time earlier in the day for high‑value work, while still accommodating urgent meetings later. The speaker emphasizes that only truly urgent meetings with a strong justification are placed at the end, preserving the majority of the day for focused tasks.

If you put a meeting in the morning at like 10 a.m., you've killed my whole morning. I can't get into any kind of deep work and then I'm going to have 2 hours and have lunch again and then have other stuff out. Like, we don't do that. If they are going to do something and it's, quote, very urgent and they have a very strong argument, then I put it at the very end of my day and I book from the back forwards. That means that if I say I want to end my day at 5 or whatever, then it means they're going to put my, my first meeting of the day at 4 o'clock. And if I have a second meeting that day, then it's me from 3 to 4. And so I still get my whole day until 3 o'clock uninterrupted so I can work on the things that matter most.