WEBVTT - Build in a little social time

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>Good Morning, This is Laura, Welcome.

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<v Speaker 1>To the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to build.

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<v Speaker 2>In a few minutes before and after scheduled meetings or

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<v Speaker 2>appointments so you can connect with other people. This will

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<v Speaker 2>let you invest a little time in your relationships and

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<v Speaker 2>keeps you from being late to everything else. So if

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<v Speaker 2>you tend to be more task oriented or schedule oriented,

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<v Speaker 2>which I will freely admit to being, you may go

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<v Speaker 2>through life focused on what you need to do at

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<v Speaker 2>what time. You may also not leave much transition time

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<v Speaker 2>in between things. You finish one meeting, you put your

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<v Speaker 2>head down and make notes about your follow ups, and

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<v Speaker 2>two minutes later you are power walking down the hall

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<v Speaker 2>to your next meeting. And in many ways that is fine.

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<v Speaker 2>You are showing up where you need to be. But

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<v Speaker 2>if you are bothering to be in the same place

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<v Speaker 2>as other people, which we often don't have to be

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<v Speaker 2>these days, it might be nice to connect outside the

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<v Speaker 2>scheduled agenda. Racing from one thing to the next means

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<v Speaker 2>there's no time for that. Something similar can happen in

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<v Speaker 2>our personal lives. You sprint out of your office to

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<v Speaker 2>make it to your yoga class and then you leave

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<v Speaker 2>as soon as the class is over, or you arrive

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<v Speaker 2>at your kid's school approximately thirty seconds before the program

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<v Speaker 2>begins and you leave right at the final bows. You

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<v Speaker 2>got to do everything. But if you bother to be

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<v Speaker 2>somewhere in person, sometimes it's nice to connect with the

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<v Speaker 2>other people who are there in person too. To some degree,

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<v Speaker 2>that is a big part of the point of being there. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I know not everyone looks at life this way. Some

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<v Speaker 2>people are more people oriented and they always make time

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

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<v Speaker 2>that has a tendency to also make people late to

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<v Speaker 2>many things, and that is not great either. So either way,

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<v Speaker 2>it helps to just actually build in five to ten

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<v Speaker 2>minutes on either side of an activity to interact with

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<v Speaker 2>the other participants. If you've got a meeting from eight

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<v Speaker 2>to nine in the morning, you aim to have your

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<v Speaker 2>next thing start at nine point fifteen or possibly even

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<v Speaker 2>nine thirty, so you can chat with colleagues as you

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<v Speaker 2>are refilling your coffee. For those who automatically chat over coffee,

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<v Speaker 2>that buffer means you are not late to the next thing.

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<v Speaker 2>For those of us who are more task oriented. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a nudge to remind ourselves that we don't have to

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<v Speaker 2>race out. We have built in space in the schedule

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

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<v Speaker 1>Whether you spend too much time or.

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<v Speaker 2>Too little time on an activity, simply building a certain

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<v Speaker 2>quantity of space into the schedule can help manage those tendencies.

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<v Speaker 2>You create space if you otherwise, wouldn't you build it

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<v Speaker 2>in if you do it anyway. Either way, you get

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<v Speaker 2>to have your connection and still stay on time. That

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<v Speaker 2>really is the best of both worlds. If you try

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<v Speaker 2>building in a little social time, you can let me

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<v Speaker 2>know how it goes at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 2>here's to making the most of our time.

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