WEBVTT - Make time-centric decisions 

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to make time centric decisions. It's easy

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<v Speaker 1>to undervalue time in our choices, but since time is

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<v Speaker 1>the ultimate limited resource, we want to honor its value

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<v Speaker 1>as much as possible. Today's tip, like another this week,

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<v Speaker 1>comes from Ashley Willen's new book Time Smart. Willains argues

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<v Speaker 1>that we need to do a better job building time

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<v Speaker 1>into our mental accounting. Plenty of us focus more on

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<v Speaker 1>another metric, money when choosing jobs. Most of us focus

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<v Speaker 1>too much on salary and prestige, easy to measure metrics,

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<v Speaker 1>and not enough on the value of the time will

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<v Speaker 1>spend in the job, or the ways a job will

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<v Speaker 1>allow us to shape our time outside work. She writes,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not that a time focused person isn't willing to

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<v Speaker 1>work long hours. It's just that this time focused person

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<v Speaker 1>wants to enjoy those hours, and if she somehow winds

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<v Speaker 1>up in work that she doesn't like so much, she's

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<v Speaker 1>careful to limit the time cost so she can enjoy

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<v Speaker 1>her time outside of work. Willand's notes that people also

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<v Speaker 1>make lousy time decisions about where they live. People often

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<v Speaker 1>want big houses and lots of space, but at least

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<v Speaker 1>in the pre COVID world where people went into the

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<v Speaker 1>office every day. In order to have those things and

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<v Speaker 1>high paying jobs, people often have to live on the

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<v Speaker 1>very outskirts of major metropolitan areas, and that can mean

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<v Speaker 1>a long commute. Commutes are the most miserable part of

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<v Speaker 1>the average person's day. Really, there is time use research

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<v Speaker 1>supporting that is, getting an extra bedroom in a bigger

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<v Speaker 1>garage with losing an extra twenty minutes every morning and

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<v Speaker 1>evening for years. Maybe sometimes we have to take factors

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<v Speaker 1>like school districts and our spouses jobs into consideration, and

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<v Speaker 1>who knows, maybe we'll get the opportunity to work from

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<v Speaker 1>home long term, but on the margin we might get

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<v Speaker 1>used to a smaller house, but a commute will be

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<v Speaker 1>misery over and over again. I think there's something to this,

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<v Speaker 1>and I also know that it's easy to undervalue time.

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<v Speaker 1>I write about time, and even so I sometimes find

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<v Speaker 1>it hard to make time centric decisions. I've taken on

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<v Speaker 1>projects I wasn't so excited about because the pay seemed decent.

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<v Speaker 1>I have flown at inconvenient times because the tickets cost less.

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<v Speaker 1>I have stayed inside on nice days out of a

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<v Speaker 1>vague sense that I was behind on email. Sometimes it

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<v Speaker 1>makes sense, but we can make more money, we can

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<v Speaker 1>never make more time. Once a second is gone, all

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<v Speaker 1>the money in the world can't buy it back. And

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<v Speaker 1>while money can do wonderful things, making money centric decisions

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<v Speaker 1>tends to make people less happy. As Willen's rights. In

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<v Speaker 1>her research, students who prioritized time were more likely to

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<v Speaker 1>report that they were working at something they wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>do as opposed to something they had to do. So,

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<v Speaker 1>as you're making your decisions today and going forward, ask

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<v Speaker 1>if you are properly valuing your time. Maybe you are,

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<v Speaker 1>but many people aren't. And that's why we let push

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<v Speaker 1>notifications interrupt our free time for no reason whatsoever. Don't

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<v Speaker 1>just give away something that's valuable. Make time centric decisions

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<v Speaker 1>and you won't. In the meantime. This is Laura, Thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.

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