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 to schedule yourself first. Identify what needs to
Speaker 1: happen for your life to run smoothly and for you
Speaker 1: to achieve your goals. Then schedule those activities first before
Speaker 1: committing to anything else. So you have probably heard the
Speaker 1: classic financial advice to pay yourself first, to save money
Speaker 1: for your own future needs before you pay for everything else.
Speaker 1: Money goes to your retirement account or emergency fund before
Speaker 1: it goes to clothes or dinners out or anything discretionary.
Speaker 1: And if you wait to save what is left over,
Speaker 1: there might not be anything left over. But if you
Speaker 1: pay yourself first, one way or the other, you'll get
Speaker 1: through to your next paycheck and you will build wealth
Speaker 1: at the same time. As is so often the case,
Speaker 1: what is wise for money is wise for time. Two.
Speaker 1: Just as people who are smart with their money set
Speaker 1: aside savings for their future needs before they spend on
Speaker 1: other things, people who are smart with their time figure
Speaker 1: out how much time they need to invest in maintaining
Speaker 1: their well being and for achieving their goals. They put
Speaker 1: that time on their schedule first before they commit to
Speaker 1: spending time in other ways. The most obvious category this
Speaker 1: works with is sleep. If you need seven and a
Speaker 1: half hours of sleep per day, then you should carve
Speaker 1: out seven and a half hours of time each day
Speaker 1: during which you can sleep. Since my guess is that
Speaker 1: you need to wake up at set times most days
Speaker 1: for work or family responsibilities, that means going to bed
Speaker 1: at a reasonable time. Doing that instead of trying to
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of your bottomless inbox, amounts to
Speaker 1: paying yourself first. Maintaining good health also requires time for
Speaker 1: physical activity. If you have an active job, great, But
Speaker 1: if you sit all day, then you need time devoted
Speaker 1: to moving your body, and you need that more than
Speaker 1: you need that marginal extra meeting block it in. Schedule
Speaker 1: yourself first so you reap the rewards over time. You
Speaker 1: can also schedule yourself first by devoting time to those
Speaker 1: long term projects that you don't want to die not
Speaker 1: having done. I don't know what it is for you,
Speaker 1: but lots of people want to do things like start
Speaker 1: a business, or write a book or read war and peace.
Speaker 1: If that sounds like you, then paying yourself first means
Speaker 1: putting time for those things on your schedule before you
Speaker 1: take care of everything else demanding your attention. For many people,
Speaker 1: the best time is first thing in the morning. I
Speaker 1: am here to tell you that if you get up
Speaker 1: and read one of the very short chapters of War
Speaker 1: and Piece every morning, which will probably take less than
Speaker 1: ten minutes, you will get through the book in a year.
Speaker 1: You won't really notice those ten minutes in the grand
Speaker 1: scheme of things, just like you don't have to save
Speaker 1: incredible amounts per day to have a reasonably secure retirement.
Speaker 1: But all that time does add up, so it goes
Speaker 1: for all things. If you want to explore entrepreneurial ideas,
Speaker 1: schedule in an hour Monday morning and Wednesday morning and
Speaker 1: stick to it. See how it goes. If you find
Speaker 1: the time is fruitful, you can start adding to it.
Speaker 1: But if nothing else, having that time on your calendar
Speaker 1: will get your brain in that mindset you might start
Speaker 1: having ideas and moving yourself forward. And if you don't
Speaker 1: schedule yourself first, well, all time passes, just like money
Speaker 1: has a way of disappearing. Best to schedule yourself first,
Speaker 1: like you pay yourself first, and you will be far
Speaker 1: richer in the end. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and here's to me making the most
Speaker 1: of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.
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