WEBVTT - Assign each day a task

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>This week we're talking about tips from Gretchen Reuben's new

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<v Speaker 1>book Outer Order, inter Calm. Today's tip is to assign

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<v Speaker 1>each day its own task. Gretchen tells us that I

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<v Speaker 1>love Laura Ingles Wilder's book Little House in the Big Woods,

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<v Speaker 1>and even as a child, I was fascinated by the

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<v Speaker 1>idea of assigning a particular household chore to each day

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<v Speaker 1>of the week. According to Laura Ingles Wilder, wash on Monday,

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<v Speaker 1>iron on Tuesday, mend on Wednesday, churn on Thursday, clean

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<v Speaker 1>on Friday, bake on Saturday, rest on Sunday. Gretchen notes

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<v Speaker 1>that this approach can be adapted to the work week

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<v Speaker 1>for tasks that are best done periodically. You might update

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<v Speaker 1>spreadsheets on Monday, process expense receipts on Tuesday, work on

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<v Speaker 1>monthly reports on Wednesday, invoice on Thursday, make phone calls

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<v Speaker 1>on Friday. The upside of such rules is that working

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<v Speaker 1>regularly on projects becomes a habit. You know you'll never

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<v Speaker 1>fall too far behind on your expense reports. If every

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<v Speaker 1>Tuesday you take a little bit of time to work

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<v Speaker 1>on them. Gretchen cautions, however, that this notion of assigning

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<v Speaker 1>certain kinds of work to certain days might not appeal

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<v Speaker 1>equally to each of the four tendencies. The Four Tendencies

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<v Speaker 1>is a research backed personality framework that Gretchen came up

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<v Speaker 1>with that is about how people respond to different expectations,

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<v Speaker 1>both outer expectations and inner ones. She found that people's

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<v Speaker 1>responses tended to fall into four categories. Upholders respond well

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<v Speaker 1>to both inner and outer expectations. Questionners don't like outer

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<v Speaker 1>expectations but are good with inner ones. Obligers have trouble

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<v Speaker 1>keeping promises to themselves, but would never let anyone else down.

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<v Speaker 1>Rebels don't like expectations in general, whether they come from

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<v Speaker 1>inside or outside. If you'd like to find out your tendency,

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<v Speaker 1>you can take the quiz at quiz dot Gretchen Reuben

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<v Speaker 1>dot com, and of course it's explained in her book

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<v Speaker 1>The Four Tendencies. In case you're curious, eye, this is

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<v Speaker 1>Laura here and an upholder, which was probably obvious to

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<v Speaker 1>anyone who listened to the episode about my nine plus

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<v Speaker 1>day running streak. I'll also fesce up to being the

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<v Speaker 1>person behind the anonymous anecdote in Gretchen's book The Four Tendencies, who,

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<v Speaker 1>despite being deep in labor with her fourth child, insisted

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<v Speaker 1>that her husband observe all traffic laws on the way

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<v Speaker 1>to the hospital and park in the correct lot. Gretchen

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<v Speaker 1>is also an upholder, and as she noted, the idea

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<v Speaker 1>of a daily schedule for tasks fills her with delight.

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<v Speaker 1>But she says, if you think the schedule seems arbitrary,

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<v Speaker 1>you're probably a question er. If you're wondering if you'll

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<v Speaker 1>be able to stick to this schedule, you're likely to

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<v Speaker 1>be an obliger. If the very thought of being trapped

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<v Speaker 1>by a schedule makes you want to run out the

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<v Speaker 1>door and into the big woods, you're probably a rebel.

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<v Speaker 1>So do you like the idea of assigning each day

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<v Speaker 1>a task? I do this with my blog, doing certain

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<v Speaker 1>sorts of posts on Monday's, Tuesdays, and Friday's. I generally

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<v Speaker 1>planned my weeks on Friday's, and I sent in the

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<v Speaker 1>following week's lineup for the Before Breakfast podcast on Monday's.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me know what you think of the idea and

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<v Speaker 1>which tasks you assigned to which days you could also

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<v Speaker 1>let me know which of the four tendencies best describes you.

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<v Speaker 1>As always, you can email me at Before Breakfast podcast

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<v Speaker 1>at i heeart media dot com. In the meantime, this

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<v Speaker 1>is Laura. Thanks for listening and here's to making the

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<v Speaker 1>most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear

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