WEBVTT - Take back your time 2020 - Move time around

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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>Today's Tip is the fourth in a five part series

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<v Speaker 1>on how to take control of your time in the

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<v Speaker 1>new year. This week, I'll be talking about five strategies

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<v Speaker 1>that I know will help you feel less busy and

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<v Speaker 1>get more done because they've definitely helped me. The first

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<v Speaker 1>tip was to track your time. The second was to

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<v Speaker 1>figure out what you'd like to spend an hour more

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<v Speaker 1>doing per week. The third was to treat your priorities

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<v Speaker 1>with the urgency you'd give to actual emergencies. And the

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<v Speaker 1>fourth is to move time around. Yes, sometimes of day

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<v Speaker 1>are better suited to some things than others, but by

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<v Speaker 1>being flexible about when things happen, you can build a

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<v Speaker 1>full life even if you have an intense job or

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<v Speaker 1>family responsibilities. Many people who track their time are surprised

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<v Speaker 1>to discover that they do have leisure time. The problem

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<v Speaker 1>is that this leisure time often occurs at times that

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<v Speaker 1>are harder to seize. And we might want to write

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<v Speaker 1>the Great American novel, but when you get the kids

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<v Speaker 1>down at eight thirty pm, Netflix looks a lot more appealing.

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<v Speaker 1>Than cranking out a rough draft. And sometimes we have

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<v Speaker 1>stories of when is the right time for things, and

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<v Speaker 1>if these right times don't fit in our lives, we

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<v Speaker 1>give up. I see this all the time from couples

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<v Speaker 1>who'd like to do regular dates, but getting a Saturday

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<v Speaker 1>night sitter is tough, so they give up. Or people

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<v Speaker 1>decide that family dinner is the sign of a functioning

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<v Speaker 1>family and feel bad when work and activity schedules preclude

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<v Speaker 1>it most week days. People who need to log long

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<v Speaker 1>hours at work assume that they just won't see young

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<v Speaker 1>kids who go to bed early during the week, or

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<v Speaker 1>they won't be able to play on a softball team

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<v Speaker 1>that me it's on Tuesday evenings. But when we choose

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<v Speaker 1>to be time management masters who moved time around, none

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<v Speaker 1>of these need to be big problems. For instance, if

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<v Speaker 1>you know you can't be creative at night, well don't

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<v Speaker 1>be creative at night. Try going to bed a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit earlier, waking up a little bit earlier, and writing.

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<v Speaker 1>Then magically you've turned unproductive evening hours into productive morning

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<v Speaker 1>hours just by moving time around. A couple, time doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>only have to happen on Saturday night. Maybe both of

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<v Speaker 1>you cut out of work a little early and meet

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<v Speaker 1>for a quick happy hour some day before us six

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<v Speaker 1>pm daycare pickup. Or maybe you both work from home

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<v Speaker 1>on Fridays, so you schedule a long lunch break during

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<v Speaker 1>this time where your kids are already in school. You

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<v Speaker 1>put the kids in simultaneous karate classes on Saturday mornings

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<v Speaker 1>and go grab coffee together. Then no Saturday night babysitting required.

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<v Speaker 1>As for family dinner, I encourage people to think about

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<v Speaker 1>family meals instead. Maybe everyone gets up and has breakfast together.

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<v Speaker 1>A weekend launch totally counts, so does pizza altogether on

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<v Speaker 1>Sunday nights. It doesn't have to be a pot roast

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<v Speaker 1>at six pm on Tuesdays. And as for weeknight leisure

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<v Speaker 1>or family time, maybe you can move your work hours

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<v Speaker 1>around two. If you want to practice with the softball

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<v Speaker 1>team at six thirty pm on Tuesdays, you arrange to

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<v Speaker 1>leave work by five pm that night. Now the work

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't go away, but after your game is done at

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<v Speaker 1>nine pm, you log back on and do the work

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<v Speaker 1>you would have done between five and seven thirty from

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<v Speaker 1>nine pm. This way, you're trading off work time for

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<v Speaker 1>TV time as opposed to work time for your softball time,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's a tradeoff you might be more interested in making.

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<v Speaker 1>By being flexible about when things happen, we can build

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<v Speaker 1>the lives we want even with very constraints. So today,

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<v Speaker 1>think about what activities you'd like to build into your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Ask if you might make space by being creative. A

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<v Speaker 1>twenty minute jog on the basement treadmill three nights a

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<v Speaker 1>week after the kids go to bed might not seem

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<v Speaker 1>like an ideal solution, but if the alternative is not

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<v Speaker 1>exercising at all, it can still feel pretty good. And

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<v Speaker 1>then you can watch your Netflix guilt free. So how

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<v Speaker 1>will you move time around? What will you do at

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<v Speaker 1>an unorthodox time? You can let me know Before Breakfast

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

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

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

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