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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to consider whether an effort comes with sufficient reward, or,

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Speaker 1: as the saying goes, is the juice worth the squeeze.

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Speaker 1: So often, when we are deciding whether to take on

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Speaker 1: a project, we ask ourselves a series of questions. First,

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Speaker 1: does this seam appealing? If we are wise, we may

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Speaker 1: also ask ourselves whether we have the time and bandwidth

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Speaker 1: to take on the project. We might also consider whether

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Speaker 1: we'd have to give something else up, like another project

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Speaker 1: or potential leisure time. All of these are good things

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Speaker 1: to consider, but sometimes we wind up asking all these

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Speaker 1: questions separately. If the project is appealing the answer is yes,

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Speaker 1: or if we have a lot of open space for

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Speaker 1: some reason, we say yes to anything that comes along,

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Speaker 1: or if we are swamped we say no to everything.

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Speaker 1: It is better to ask these questions concurrently and find

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Speaker 1: out whether the potential payoffs are proportionate to the time invested.

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Speaker 1: That is, is the juice worth the squeeze? After all,

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Speaker 1: a project that's reasonably appealing may require a huge effort,

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Speaker 1: or it might require minimal effort, and a project that

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Speaker 1: we have time for may be incredibly valuable, or it

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Speaker 1: might be not especially valuable. That's why we need to

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Speaker 1: ask about the appeal of the project relative to the

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Speaker 1: effort required. How hard is it to do this project

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Speaker 1: and how sweet will be the reward. Your boss may

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Speaker 1: have offered you a project with a fascinating client that

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Speaker 1: would let you build lots of new skills, and that

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Speaker 1: you know is going to require a lot of late nights,

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Speaker 1: so do you do it? Or maybe your favorite yoga

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Speaker 1: teacher now teaches at a studio thirty minutes away, and

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Speaker 1: that studio charges ten dollars more per class than the

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Speaker 1: studio right around the corner from you. Is your favorite

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Speaker 1: teacher that much better than the more convenient and less

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Speaker 1: expensive option. Or maybe a nonprofit you support is considering

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Speaker 1: hosting a silent auction, an event that will definitely be fun,

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Speaker 1: but that will also require a large number of volunteer hours.

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Speaker 1: Will it raise much more after expenses than a direct

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Speaker 1: mail campaign? There is no one right answer to any

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Speaker 1: of these questions. If you ask yourself whether the juice

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Speaker 1: is worth the squeeze to you, you can make a

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Speaker 1: decision about whether the effort, however big or small, is

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Speaker 1: worth the payoff. Let me be clear that my message

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Speaker 1: is not to avoid doing hard things. Life is richer

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Speaker 1: when we choose wisely about how to invest our energy

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Speaker 1: and enjoy the rewards of our efforts. My point here

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Speaker 1: is really about other temptations. We should avoid saying yes

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Speaker 1: to everything that seems fairly easy, as sometimes the easy

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Speaker 1: things aren't worth even the minimal effort required. We also

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Speaker 1: want to say no to hard things that don't have

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Speaker 1: a payoff that is commensurate with the effort we will

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Speaker 1: need to put into them. So ask yourself if the

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Speaker 1: juice is worth the squeeze, and point your efforts to

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Speaker 1: opportunities that will yield rewards that are sweet relative to

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Speaker 1: the time and energy you invest in the meantime, This

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Speaker 1: is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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Speaker 1: most of our times. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear

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