Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura, Welcome.
Speaker 1: To the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to build.
Speaker 2: In a few minutes before and after scheduled meetings or
Speaker 2: appointments so you can connect with other people. This will
Speaker 2: let you invest a little time in your relationships and
Speaker 2: keeps you from being late to everything else. So if
Speaker 2: you tend to be more task oriented or schedule oriented,
Speaker 2: which I will freely admit to being, you may go
Speaker 2: through life focused on what you need to do at
Speaker 2: what time. You may also not leave much transition time
Speaker 2: in between things. You finish one meeting, you put your
Speaker 2: head down and make notes about your follow ups, and
Speaker 2: two minutes later you are power walking down the hall
Speaker 2: to your next meeting. And in many ways that is fine.
Speaker 2: You are showing up where you need to be. But
Speaker 2: if you are bothering to be in the same place
Speaker 2: as other people, which we often don't have to be
Speaker 2: these days, it might be nice to connect outside the
Speaker 2: scheduled agenda. Racing from one thing to the next means
Speaker 2: there's no time for that. Something similar can happen in
Speaker 2: our personal lives. You sprint out of your office to
Speaker 2: make it to your yoga class and then you leave
Speaker 2: as soon as the class is over, or you arrive
Speaker 2: at your kid's school approximately thirty seconds before the program
Speaker 2: begins and you leave right at the final bows. You
Speaker 2: got to do everything. But if you bother to be
Speaker 2: somewhere in person, sometimes it's nice to connect with the
Speaker 2: other people who are there in person too. To some degree,
Speaker 2: that is a big part of the point of being there. Now.
Speaker 2: I know not everyone looks at life this way. Some
Speaker 2: people are more people oriented and they always make time
Speaker 2: for conversation they're wondering what I'm talking about here, But
Speaker 2: that has a tendency to also make people late to
Speaker 2: many things, and that is not great either. So either way,
Speaker 2: it helps to just actually build in five to ten
Speaker 2: minutes on either side of an activity to interact with
Speaker 2: the other participants. If you've got a meeting from eight
Speaker 2: to nine in the morning, you aim to have your
Speaker 2: next thing start at nine point fifteen or possibly even
Speaker 2: nine thirty, so you can chat with colleagues as you
Speaker 2: are refilling your coffee. For those who automatically chat over coffee,
Speaker 2: that buffer means you are not late to the next thing.
Speaker 2: For those of us who are more task oriented. It's
Speaker 2: a nudge to remind ourselves that we don't have to
Speaker 2: race out. We have built in space in the schedule
Speaker 2: to accommodate a chat about jones vacation or Bob's new puppy.
Speaker 1: Whether you spend too much time or.
Speaker 2: Too little time on an activity, simply building a certain
Speaker 2: quantity of space into the schedule can help manage those tendencies.
Speaker 2: You create space if you otherwise, wouldn't you build it
Speaker 2: in if you do it anyway. Either way, you get
Speaker 2: to have your connection and still stay on time. That
Speaker 2: really is the best of both worlds. If you try
Speaker 2: building in a little social time, you can let me
Speaker 2: know how it goes at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 2: here's to making the most of our time.
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