Halley Nagy, LMFT, gives realistic tips for navigating mismatched hours. From calendar tools to communication habits, she helps you find small windows of overlap that make a big difference in coordinating schedules
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schedule coordination um when you are
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making plans with other people and
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you're often working on opposite
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schedules you need to find days or times
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where free time overlaps um so that
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might look like days off um if you get
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off at 7 a.m maybe we're going to go
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grab coffee or go to the gym or
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something of that nature um if you have
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time midday maybe they have a lunch
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break and maybe you're just waking up
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you guys could do something at that time
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or if you have an evening free again
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this might be on a day off it might be
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dinner before you go to work but finding
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times where that free time
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overlaps and ways you might do this is
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through just talking about it um you
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might send a list of dates when you're
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available if it's something more than a
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cup of coffee or dinner um if it's for a
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larger group you might actually map out
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days and times you're free with an excel
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sheet um having someone set up a
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calendar of sorts and people can fill in
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when they're available and plan
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something on the most popular date might
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not work for everything but it might
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work for some
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things keeping in mind just like when
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you're scheduling other things you may
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need to compromise or adjust if you're
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wanting to attend something in
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particular again identifying those
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priorities and thinking about what you
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really want to be at and what you may
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might need to compromise if you
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do and as always you can ask other
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people to accommodate or adjust hey i
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really want to be at this party but it
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cuts into my sleep time do you think you
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could push it back by an hour or two
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they might not be able to but they might
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surprise you and say yes