1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning, 2 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's 3 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: tip is don't play jump or Dive with your schedule. 4 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: Make plans with adequate lead time so you don't have 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: to do too much on the fly. If you grew 6 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: up with access to a backyard pool, you may have 7 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: played the pool game jump or Dive. One person stands 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: on a diving board, and after that person launches himself 9 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: into the air, his friends shout either jump or dive. 10 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Then the person, who is by now mid air maneuvers 11 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: to either jump or dive in accordance with his friend's directions. 12 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: You can probably guess that this usually results in a 13 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: belly flop, which is kind of a cross between a 14 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: jump and a dive. Now, this doesn't sound like my 15 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: idea of fun, and I think most adults would agree 16 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: with me, but a lot of kids find it hysterical. 17 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: That said, I have noticed that plenty of adults played 18 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,199 Speaker 1: jump or Dive with their schedules. When you leave things 19 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: undecided until the last minute, you are often setting yourself 20 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: up for stress or wasted time, or an otherwise suboptimal situation. 21 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: But you usually don't have to do that. Suppose you 22 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: are planning to run with a friend tomorrow morning at 23 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: six am, but there is a seventy percent chance of rain. 24 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 1: You could wake up at five point forty and then 25 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: decide whether or not to run. But wouldn't you be 26 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: happier if you decided the night before that you will 27 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: cancel so you can sleep in. Or you could agree 28 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: that you will run together if it's not raining, but 29 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: get together at Starbucks to hang out if it is. 30 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: Either way you avoid the early wake up at half 31 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: asleep text exchange and deciding whether or not to run. 32 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: If you're planning to go out with a colleague for 33 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: a drink after work but realize you will almost certainly 34 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: have to work late because a big project just landed 35 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: on your desk, you could make a call at five 36 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: point fifteen about whether or not you can pause your 37 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: work for drinks, but it might be more considerate to 38 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: reach out in advance to see if you can shift 39 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: drinks to another day, or maybe go a little later 40 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: that day. You can skip this avoidable pivot. I know 41 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: plenty of people who make plans that are vague, which 42 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: is a variation on jumper dive. They'll plan to meet 43 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: up with a friend for brunch on Saturday, but what 44 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: does that even mean? Ten o'clock one o'clock and where 45 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: the specific location might add thirty minutes of time for 46 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: travel and parking. Depending on the options in your town, 47 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: your attire might need to be different. Will you be 48 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: eating indoors or outdoors? Instead of planning on brunch on Saturday? 49 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: Make specific plans with the time and place so you 50 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: are not holding each other's Saturday's hostage and figuring out 51 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: whether to jump or dive on the fly. Now to 52 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: be sure, there are some occasions when leaving things vague 53 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: on timing for at least a little while might be 54 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: the way to go. Lots of you let me know 55 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: that you enjoyed my interview with Kristen the Frugal Girl 56 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: on this podcast a few weeks ago. Both of us 57 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: generally like to make our plans ahead of time, but 58 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: the week I was looking to interview her, she had 59 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: jury duty, so we agreed that she would text me 60 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: in the evening if she found out that she didn't 61 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: have to go in for her duty on the next day, 62 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: since her day would suddenly be completely free. In this case, 63 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: we could choose a half hour block that happened to 64 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: be free for me. I almost always have one of 65 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: those somewhere. Being flexible on timing worked out for us there. 66 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: But even in that case, we weren't truly playing jump 67 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: or dive. That would be like trying to figure out 68 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: where six people can go eat dinner when you are 69 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: all hungry and a lot of the restaurants are full. 70 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: In most cases, you know that people get hungry at 71 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: regular intervals, So if you have got a group, best 72 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: to plan for that, and in general, if you need 73 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: to adjust plans, doing it as soon as you know 74 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: means that no one is left lurching as they jump 75 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: off the diving board. Best not to schedule a meeting 76 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 1: right after another meeting that always runs over, and just 77 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: hope that everyone can move the second meeting forward when 78 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: that's needed. You want to know if you are jumping 79 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: or diving before you get to the edge of the 80 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: diving board. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, 81 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Thanks 82 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: for listening to before breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, 83 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura 84 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: vandercam dot com. 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