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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to choose a rain date. If you've

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Speaker 1: got anything important coming up and there is a chance

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Speaker 1: that life might intervene, figure out when else it can happen.

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Speaker 1: This increases the chances that it does happen, even if

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Speaker 1: not when you originally planned. So. Lots of schools are

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Speaker 1: having their graduations these days, and many of these ceremonies

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Speaker 1: happen out of doors, but much can go predictably wrong outside.

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Speaker 1: The weather might not cooperate, and no one wants to

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Speaker 1: stand outside for two hours in a cap and gown

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Speaker 1: in the pouring rain. That's why many organizations schedule an

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Speaker 1: official rain date. If the weather is bad on the

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Speaker 1: original date, then the event will be rescheduled. You even

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Speaker 1: know when it will be rescheduled, there is no question

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Speaker 1: of if or when. You know not to put anything

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Speaker 1: unmovable in the rain date slot. Most likely it won't

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Speaker 1: be needed. Despite the perception, it does not always rain

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Speaker 1: on graduation ceremonies, but having a rain date vastly increases

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Speaker 1: the chances that a graduation ceremony will happen, and if

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Speaker 1: you do want it to happen, that increased certainty is

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Speaker 1: a good thing. So it goes for much in life.

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Speaker 1: We can put important things on our schedules, then life intervenes,

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Speaker 1: stuff comes up. This can be aggravating, but it is

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Speaker 1: far less aggravating if you have already secured a back

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Speaker 1: up slot. Anything important needs a rain date. If the

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Speaker 1: first time doesn't work, when else can you do it?

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Speaker 1: I am serious about extending this rein date consideration to

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Speaker 1: anything important. This is truly how effective people make progress

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Speaker 1: on their goals. Maybe you plan to give more celebratory

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Speaker 1: feedback to your employees. You schedule time on Thursday to

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Speaker 1: meet with someone who really needs the encouragement. Then your

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Speaker 1: biggest client has a crisis requiring everyone to deal with that.

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Speaker 1: It will probably bump the feedback. But if it is

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Speaker 1: important to you to be a responsive employer who gives

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Speaker 1: celebratory feedback, it shouldn't bump it forever. When is the

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Speaker 1: rain date? Do you and your employee know exactly when

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Speaker 1: that feedback will be rescheduled for automatically? If you know,

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Speaker 1: then this process can be far more motivational. Same with

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Speaker 1: for instance, one on one time with kids. If you

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Speaker 1: have planned a special day with a child, both of

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Speaker 1: you are going to look forward to it. But what

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Speaker 1: if one of you gets sick or there's rain when

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Speaker 1: you plan to go to the amusement park. Don't let

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Speaker 1: disappointment rain as it were, figure out a rain date.

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Speaker 1: When your first choice day doesn't happen, when can you

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Speaker 1: go instead. People often lament that they have good intentions

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Speaker 1: and then life derails them. That's life. Something always comes up.

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Speaker 1: But something coming up doesn't have to derail us from

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Speaker 1: our goals. Set a date for anything important, and most

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Speaker 1: likely that important thing will happen not when you originally planned,

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Speaker 1: but it will happen because you did plan for how

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Speaker 1: life really works in the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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