Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that you might be able to spend less
Speaker 1: time in your car by eliminating one round trip from
Speaker 1: your schedule. With a little advanced planning and strategic thinking,
Speaker 1: you can substitute something fun or productive for time spent
Speaker 1: going back and forth. So I hear from many listeners
Speaker 1: that they spend more time in their cars than they
Speaker 1: would like to, between driving to and from work, commitments,
Speaker 1: doing errands, and then maybe taking kids all over the place.
Speaker 1: Many of my listeners clock a lot of miles in
Speaker 1: a week. Unfortunately, car time is hard to use well.
Speaker 1: It's often necessary, but not terribly enjoyable. If that sounds
Speaker 1: like you, consider this as a challenge. Can you skip
Speaker 1: one round trip this week? If you think of all
Speaker 1: the places you drive? I am guessing you could come
Speaker 1: up with a way to do this. Perhaps you could
Speaker 1: simply opt out of one of the trips. If a
Speaker 1: lot of your driving is shuttling kids, perhaps you and
Speaker 1: another family going to the same place could carpool. You
Speaker 1: might also lean on your partner or anyone else who
Speaker 1: helps you with your kids to take on one of
Speaker 1: the drives. You may also be able to eliminate a
Speaker 1: round trip by moving something that was in person online.
Speaker 1: If you only have one in person meeting on a
Speaker 1: given day and it's with someone you see in person frequently,
Speaker 1: could you move that meeting to zoom or phone or
Speaker 1: to another day so that you could work from home
Speaker 1: and skip the commute. If you think a little more strategically,
Speaker 1: perhaps you can skip an errand too. I know my
Speaker 1: family goes to the grocery store more often than we
Speaker 1: probably need to because we sometimes forget things. A good
Speaker 1: look at the pantry and thinking through what you will
Speaker 1: eat during the week can eliminate that. You could also
Speaker 1: eliminate a round trip by camping out at a random
Speaker 1: place rather than driving back and forth. Let's say your
Speaker 1: kid has a ninety minute soccer practice that is ten
Speaker 1: minutes away from your house. You certainly could drive back
Speaker 1: and forth and have the hour at home, but you
Speaker 1: could also wear your running shoes and go for a
Speaker 1: forty five minute run and read for twenty minutes and
Speaker 1: still watch twenty five minutes of the practice if you
Speaker 1: stayed there. If there is a coffee shop right next
Speaker 1: to your kid's ballet studio. Even if it is only
Speaker 1: a ten minute drive home, Suddenly that hour becomes fifty
Speaker 1: five minutes to work on a project, rather than a
Speaker 1: thirty minute stint at home where amid all the distractions,
Speaker 1: not much gets done. If you cut out a round trip,
Speaker 1: suddenly you have replaced unwanted car time with an activity
Speaker 1: you want more time for in your life. And that
Speaker 1: sounds like a win to me. So this week, see
Speaker 1: if you can eliminate a round trip one way or
Speaker 1: another and find something more satisfying to do with your time.
Speaker 1: If you do, I'd love to hear about it. You
Speaker 1: could reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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