Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that while it is easy to waste the
Speaker 1: last minutes of anything, time is time. You might be
Speaker 1: able to do more than you think you can when
Speaker 1: you don't quit until it's quitting time. So once, when
Speaker 1: I was helping out in a child's class, I enjoyed
Speaker 1: witnessing the teacher pull a classroom time management master move.
Speaker 1: We were in the last ten minutes of the day.
Speaker 1: Buses were about to be called. I can imagine that
Speaker 1: a lot of people would have phoned it in at
Speaker 1: that point, but the teacher had the kids doing an
Speaker 1: act activity where they were still learning even as they
Speaker 1: were gathering their bags and preparing to leave in their
Speaker 1: small groups. Her perspective was that ten minutes a day
Speaker 1: is still ten minutes. Over one hundred eighty school days,
Speaker 1: that is eighteen hundred minutes, which is thirty hours. You
Speaker 1: can learn a lot in thirty hours, so there was
Speaker 1: no need to quit until quitting time. I think that
Speaker 1: is a really good perspective. I know that as I
Speaker 1: get toward the end of the workday, it is easy
Speaker 1: to discount that last bit of time.
Speaker 2: Maybe I need to be in the car to go
Speaker 2: get a kid at four fifteen pm, so come four
Speaker 2: o'clock I am looking at the clock. But those fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes are still usable. I might not be able to
Speaker 2: do anything deep, but I can do something. One thing
Speaker 2: I find.
Speaker 1: Really good to do in this almost quitting time window
Speaker 1: is all the little things I have scheduled for the
Speaker 1: next day. As I near the end of any given
Speaker 1: work day.
Speaker 2: I tend to make my to do list for the
Speaker 2: next day. Some of these tasks will be big things,
Speaker 2: or time specific things, or things requiring a lot of concentration,
Speaker 2: but other stuff will be little tasks like sending a
Speaker 2: quick email, filling out a form, or paying a bill.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, I can create a
Speaker 2: mini batching time and do those tasks. Suddenly the next
Speaker 2: day looks a lot lighter and like I am way
Speaker 2: ahead of the game. Now, sure, those things only would
Speaker 2: have taken fifteen minutes the next day too, But now
Speaker 2: that is fifteen minutes I don't have to think about.
Speaker 2: Maybe you can try the same. If there is a
Speaker 2: time you normally leave work, challenge yourself to fill the
Speaker 2: time right up until that moment. Some days you won't
Speaker 2: need any help with this because the day will be crazy.
Speaker 2: But if not, try not to think, well, hey, this
Speaker 2: can all just wait for tomorrow, when the stuff could
Speaker 2: in fact be finished before then. This idea can go
Speaker 2: for social gatherings too. I always like it when people
Speaker 2: pay as much attention to endings as beginnings. It shows
Speaker 2: a certain thoughtfulness instead of people just drifting out at
Speaker 2: the end of an event. Maybe there is a final.
Speaker 1: Activity or a treat that people could look for forward too.
Speaker 1: You don't quit until quitting time, and thus you get
Speaker 1: the full experience of your fun.
Speaker 2: In the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 2: our time.
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