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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is a reminder that people are a good

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Speaker 1: use of time, most likely spending time with people you enjoy.

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Speaker 1: We'll leave you happier afterwards than you were before, So

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Speaker 1: even if the activity isn't your first choice, it might

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Speaker 1: be worth doing. One of my core time management rules

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Speaker 1: is to have a weekly, recurring planning time. I planned

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Speaker 1: my weeks on Friday afternoons, and a lot of people

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Speaker 1: have told me that they liked this time too. You

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Speaker 1: look at the upcoming week and figure out what you

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Speaker 1: want to have happened and what needs to happen. As

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Speaker 1: part of this planning, I suggest people make a three

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Speaker 1: category priority list Career, relationships, Self. Career is obvious. These

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Speaker 1: are the things that are important in your professional life.

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Speaker 1: My guess is that you are definitely already thinking about

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Speaker 1: deadlines and the like. Self is reasonably obvious too. If

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Speaker 1: you want to run three times, or you need to

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Speaker 1: schedule a dentist visit, those things go in this category.

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Speaker 1: People scratch their heads a bit more about the relationships category,

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Speaker 1: but I think it is worth while to think through

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Speaker 1: what you would like to see happen with friends and

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Speaker 1: family members over the next seven days, even if the

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Speaker 1: accomplishments aren't as obvious as let's say, turning in a

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Speaker 1: major proposal at work. Putting time and thought into people

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Speaker 1: is productive in the sense of massively increasing life satisfaction.

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Speaker 1: In short, people are a good use of time. Part

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Speaker 1: of any relationship is spending time together. So today's it

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Speaker 1: is that if the opportunity arises to do something with

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Speaker 1: someone who is a priority for you, do your best

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Speaker 1: to say yes or even suggest doing the activity to

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Speaker 1: gather even if the activity itself might not be your

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Speaker 1: first choice. For instance, in our house, our dog is

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Speaker 1: mostly my husband's responsibility. He really wanted to have a dog,

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Speaker 1: and so that is the agreement we reached. The other day,

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Speaker 1: when we were both working from home, he asked if

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Speaker 1: I wanted to go to the dog park with him

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Speaker 1: around noon to get our dogs some exercise. Now, going

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Speaker 1: to a dog park is not my first choice for

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Speaker 1: a weekday break, but I do really like spending time

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Speaker 1: with my husband, so I tagged along and we got

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Speaker 1: a low key, kid free chat in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday. People are a good use of time. I

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Speaker 1: am sure you can think of plenty of activities like

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Speaker 1: that in your life too. Maybe your kid loves going

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Speaker 1: to a particular their store to brows. It is not

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Speaker 1: your favorite thing, but your kid is your favorite thing.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to do it daily, but going on

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Speaker 1: occasion is one way to make sure your kid will

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Speaker 1: spend some time with you. I have spent much of

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Speaker 1: the summer doing some epic camp runs each day, and

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Speaker 1: I really don't like driving all that much, but I

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Speaker 1: do like my kids, so I'm trying to keep a

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Speaker 1: positive attitude about it, listening to favorite podcasts while the

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Speaker 1: kids aren't in the car, and then chatting with them

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Speaker 1: when they do get in. So as you think about

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Speaker 1: your schedule for the week, think about how you could

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Speaker 1: increase the time you spend with the people who are

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Speaker 1: close to you. Sometimes one of the best options is

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Speaker 1: doing something that on its own is not your favorite

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Speaker 1: use of time, but if it allows you to increase

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Speaker 1: your relationship building time, it is probably worth it. People

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Speaker 1: are a good use of time, even if the activity

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Speaker 1: itself doesn't always rise to that level. In the meantime,

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

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to

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