Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that you can make your life less
Speaker 1: chaotic and more enjoyable by learning a few simple strategies.
Speaker 1: Consciously choosing to build them into your life over the
Speaker 1: next two months or so could make life feel very different.
Speaker 1: I know several listeners of the Before Breakfast podcast join
Speaker 1: me for my recent time tracking challenge. Thousands of folks
Speaker 1: tracked their time to gather for a week, seeing where
Speaker 1: the time really went so we could make better choices
Speaker 1: if you participated in that wonderful I hope time tracking
Speaker 1: was useful. I am now running another challenge starting later
Speaker 1: this week, or people will learn my nine favorite time
Speaker 1: management rules over nine weeks. These are the rules I
Speaker 1: write about in Tranquility By Tuesday, my most recent book.
Speaker 1: You can sign up on my website Laura vander Kam
Speaker 1: dot com to get an email each Friday for nine
Speaker 1: weeks explaining each new rule. I'll write about the rule
Speaker 1: during the week on my blog, and then on each Thursday,
Speaker 1: I'll send an email with some questions designed to help
Speaker 1: you reflect on the rule and how it played out
Speaker 1: in your life. These habits are pretty simple. It is
Speaker 1: not a spoiler to share some of them, like give
Speaker 1: yourself a bedtime, or plan on Fridays, or move by
Speaker 1: three pm, or create backup slots, or plan in one
Speaker 1: big adventure and one little adventure each week. However, these
Speaker 1: habits can be life changing. That's what I found out
Speaker 1: when in early I had hundred fifty people try out
Speaker 1: these rules for nine weeks. One participant in my study
Speaker 1: told me that these habits had encouraged me to be
Speaker 1: intentional about building in time for joy and restoration. Another
Speaker 1: told me that these rules helped in getting past the
Speaker 1: sense that my life was an unending to do list.
Speaker 1: Wrote another, I'm most proud of changing the story that
Speaker 1: I tell myself. I do have time for the things
Speaker 1: that are important to me and time for fun. Two.
Speaker 1: If that sounds good to you, then please join me
Speaker 1: in trying these habits out. I've been monitoring how I
Speaker 1: do on my nine favorite time management rules over the
Speaker 1: past few months, and I can tell you that when
Speaker 1: I follow them, life really does feel better. Not perfect,
Speaker 1: of course, because life is never perfect, but it is
Speaker 1: definitely better. On the nights I observed my bedtime. I
Speaker 1: sleep better during the weeks. When I plan my week
Speaker 1: on Friday, everything feels more under control. When I batched
Speaker 1: the little things, the little things don't take over my life.
Speaker 1: I hope you will feel the same way as well.
Speaker 1: So let's learn these nine rules over nine weeks together.
Speaker 1: Visit Laura Vanderkam dot com to sign up. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: them moose of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
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