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Hi, everyone.  This Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share my tips on how to focus. Okay -- I am mildly ADHD inattentive type.  I have a whole series of videos on the tools that I use to overcome my natural forgetfulness and inattention.  However, even if you are NOT particularly inattentive, there are still so many distractions in today's world, that it can be very difficult to focus when you need to.  So, let me give you my tips. 1 - Block your calendar We all do better if we give ourselves a chunk of time for deep thinking.  I'm talking about when you need to write, analyze, read, or do any number of things that require more than just superficial concentration.  If you have couple meetings scheduled in the middle of the morning, but nothing in the afternoon -- pick the afternoon as your time to focus and think deeply.  In the morning, you can do all those tasks that require less of you -- like answer emails, organize p

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I eliminated my duplicates on Google Photos. I'm a big fan of Google Photos and I have been urging folks to offload photos from their iPhones onto Google Photos to save space and as a long-term photo storage solution. A little while ago, I started getting duplicates on Google Photos.  I have an iPhone, so this video is specific to iOS issues.  My duplicates looked like this.  So, I would go through my photos and arbitrarily delete one of the duplicates.  The problem was -- I would go back later and I was losing some of these.  Instead of just deleting one of the them, Google Photos would have neither of them!   This was clearly an unacceptable situation.  After some trial and error, what I realized is that, for nearly all of my duplicates, I would have one that would look like this and one that had a tiny round arrow icon at the bottom.  I determined that th