How to survive back to back meeting days (And not hate your life)

most of my days look like this. I am in back to back meetings from 7:00 AM my time to about 3 PM, eight hours straight of back to back meetings. And then I get into my actual core work where I have to do all the activities and complete the things that we've discussed in those meetings. So here are the three things that I do so that I can survive those days, be productive, be effective and not forget what needs to get done from one meeting to the next and show up as the best possible version of myself in each of those conversations. Number one, you need to be prepared. So the way I prepare is I look at my meeting schedule in advance. I take time to understand, do I need to present in this conversation? Do I need to be available to discuss? Do I need to be a sounding board for other people in the room, or am I just there to listen? Based on that, I prioritize which meetings I do the most preparation for ahead of the conversation. And one of the best ways that I do this is using color coding. So you have the opportunity to categorize your meetings that helps your brain immediately draw its attention to whatever color code you've given meetings that are more important or have a higher priority for you and the role that you need to play in those conversations. The next thing that I do is I think about how I can use meeting time as a multiplier. The way that I do this sometimes is "little treat" culture where I purchased with FSA and HSA dollars, I purchased a foot massager for under my desk, a walking treadmill under my desk. I think about how can I use the time that I'm already spending in these meetings to maximize it and do something for me so I don't feel like I'm just giving, giving, giving, but I'm actually getting some benefit for that time as well. Another thing that I do because I live in a beautiful city where it's walking weather year-round, I take a lot of my meetings as walking meetings outside, especially if I'm in the office with my team, we'll take our one-on-ones as walks around the office and that gives me more time to be focused and present with them because I'm not distracted by a computer screen and I get my steps in. I average like five miles a day on walking meeting days. And then the last thing that I do is I turn captions on through accessibility settings in whatever software I'm using to run and host my conversations and my meetings. Whether it's in Teams or Google, whatever you're using, they have an accessibility feature that allows you to turn captions on. What really helps with this is that if you are trying to manage a lot of task switching in your brain, having captions gives you that safety net of just in case you miss something or if you need to go back your brain needs a minute to reprocess something, the caption is there. It's different than transcript, so you don't need everybody else's election to participate. You can simply just turn it on for your own benefit and for your own view. Good luck.