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Should you double up on tasks at work?
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See you there. hey there michelle how are you doing today good lindsey lindsey do you have any efficiency hacks oh my gosh well i do have a few michelle um you know we've been working here at dollars english for 10 years working online so i've been able to figure out a few things but i do know that it's
always best to be able to double up on tasks when i can like if i can achieve two goals uh one goal with two goals with one task, that's better.
Right. Right. Kind of to kill two birds with one stone.
Yeah, kind of. Yeah.
Yeah. So this can help you be more productive at work and stay effective and organized.
So guys, we are so excited for you to hear this episode of All Ears English today.
It's really going to help you describe being more productive when you're at work.
Yeah. I love the fact that there's so much from the general English world that can help us at work, right?
That is just a fact of life.
We don't become robots when we walk into the workplace.
Right, Michelle? And so today we're going to show you and bring you an episode of All Ears English and show you exactly what this key idiom is and other ways to describe getting more than one task done at once.
Yeah. Right. All right.
So make sure that you keep on listening until the end to hear us use one of the words to talk about something we have recently done at work.
All right. So now we're going to go ahead and listen into the episode.
Hello, Michelle, how's it going today?
How are you? I'm good.
Everything is a little bit hectic.
I was just telling Lindsay about how I'm in the process of moving.
So I'm sure our listeners have experienced moving before and it's a little bit hectic, but that's okay.
It's exciting too. Oh my gosh.
I'm sure our listeners know exactly what you're going through, Michelle.
But today's topic is a little bit different.
So I mean, Lindsay, do you think that we should just kill two birds with one stone and we were going to have a meeting do you want to kill two birds with one stone and do the meeting on the same day as our next recording that sounds good Michelle I mean I'm not really a killer of birds but like but you
know I'm sure that sounds like it would be efficient an efficient way to spend our meeting time absolutely okay great guys today we are here to answer a really good listener question from YouTube.
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