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

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Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: To the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to build.

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Speaker 2: In a few minutes before and after scheduled meetings or

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Speaker 2: appointments so you can connect with other people. This will

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Speaker 2: let you invest a little time in your relationships and

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Speaker 2: keeps you from being late to everything else. So if

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Speaker 2: you tend to be more task oriented or schedule oriented,

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Speaker 2: which I will freely admit to being, you may go

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Speaker 2: through life focused on what you need to do at

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Speaker 2: what time. You may also not leave much transition time

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Speaker 2: in between things. You finish one meeting, you put your

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Speaker 2: head down and make notes about your follow ups, and

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Speaker 2: two minutes later you are power walking down the hall

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Speaker 2: to your next meeting. And in many ways that is fine.

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Speaker 2: You are showing up where you need to be. But

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Speaker 2: if you are bothering to be in the same place

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Speaker 2: as other people, which we often don't have to be

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Speaker 2: these days, it might be nice to connect outside the

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Speaker 2: scheduled agenda. Racing from one thing to the next means

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Speaker 2: there's no time for that. Something similar can happen in

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Speaker 2: our personal lives. You sprint out of your office to

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Speaker 2: make it to your yoga class and then you leave

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Speaker 2: as soon as the class is over, or you arrive

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Speaker 2: at your kid's school approximately thirty seconds before the program

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Speaker 2: begins and you leave right at the final bows. You

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Speaker 2: got to do everything. But if you bother to be

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Speaker 2: somewhere in person, sometimes it's nice to connect with the

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Speaker 2: other people who are there in person too. To some degree,

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Speaker 2: that is a big part of the point of being there. Now.

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Speaker 2: I know not everyone looks at life this way. Some

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Speaker 2: people are more people oriented and they always make time

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Speaker 2: for conversation they're wondering what I'm talking about here, But

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Speaker 2: that has a tendency to also make people late to

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Speaker 2: many things, and that is not great either. So either way,

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Speaker 2: it helps to just actually build in five to ten

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Speaker 2: minutes on either side of an activity to interact with

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Speaker 2: the other participants. If you've got a meeting from eight

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Speaker 2: to nine in the morning, you aim to have your

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Speaker 2: next thing start at nine point fifteen or possibly even

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Speaker 2: nine thirty, so you can chat with colleagues as you

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Speaker 2: are refilling your coffee. For those who automatically chat over coffee,

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Speaker 2: that buffer means you are not late to the next thing.

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Speaker 2: For those of us who are more task oriented. It's

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Speaker 2: a nudge to remind ourselves that we don't have to

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Speaker 2: race out. We have built in space in the schedule

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Speaker 2: to accommodate a chat about jones vacation or Bob's new puppy.

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Speaker 1: Whether you spend too much time or.

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Speaker 2: Too little time on an activity, simply building a certain

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Speaker 2: quantity of space into the schedule can help manage those tendencies.

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Speaker 2: You create space if you otherwise, wouldn't you build it

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Speaker 2: in if you do it anyway. Either way, you get

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Speaker 2: to have your connection and still stay on time. That

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Speaker 2: really is the best of both worlds. If you try

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Speaker 2: building in a little social time, you can let me

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Speaker 2: know how it goes at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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Speaker 2: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 2: here's to making the most of our time.

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