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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 to recognize the choices you're making about

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Speaker 1: how you use your time. When you see the opportunity

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Speaker 1: cost of your actions more clearly, you'll be able to

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Speaker 1: make better choices. Elementary school age kids often enjoy playing

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Speaker 1: a game called would you rather? You ask another person

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Speaker 1: which of two unappealing and unlikely hypothetical situations they would prefer.

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Speaker 1: Would you rather have a slug climb into your ear

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Speaker 1: or an ant climb into your nose? Would you rather

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Speaker 1: drink a hamburger smoothie or a spinach flavored milkshake? Challenge

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Speaker 1: an eight year old to come up with a would

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Speaker 1: you rather, and you will likely get some creative and

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Speaker 1: gross scenarios. Would you rather? Turns out to be a

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Speaker 1: good game for adults to have posed to ourselves too,

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Speaker 1: though not about cringe inducing hypotheticals, but rather about how

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Speaker 1: we'd like to use our time. Would you rather hit

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Speaker 1: snooze or get in a run today? Would you rather

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Speaker 1: scroll through Instagram or call your sister? Would you rather

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Speaker 1: stay in the warm shower or review your calendar before

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Speaker 1: your nine am call. Time is absolutely limited. Even the

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Speaker 1: mightiest among us has just twenty four hours in a day,

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Speaker 1: and all the money in the world cannot buy you

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Speaker 1: a second more. This means that inherent in any use

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Speaker 1: of time is the loss of another way we might

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Speaker 1: have spent those minutes. If you hit snooze, you will

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Speaker 1: sleep a bit more, even if it's not great sleep,

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Speaker 1: but you will give up the time to exercise before work.

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Speaker 1: If you keep scrolling through Instagram, you will let the

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Speaker 1: moment asked for calling your sister in London before she's asleep.

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Speaker 1: If you stay in the warm, steamy shower pleasant as that,

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Speaker 1: maybe you won't have time to prep for the day

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Speaker 1: before you are going full steam. Now. This might seem obvious,

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Speaker 1: but the reason this matters is that we often approach

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Speaker 1: time with yes or no questions. Do I want to

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Speaker 1: hit snooze? Do I want to see what's next in

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Speaker 1: my Instagram feed? The default answer is well, sure, why not?

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Speaker 1: But when we reframe the question to ask whether we

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Speaker 1: would rather do a given easy activity or do something

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Speaker 1: else we value, we can answer in a more thoughtful way.

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Speaker 1: Choosing wisely lets us spend time in ways that boost

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Speaker 1: our happiness and add meeting to our lives. Upon reflection,

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Speaker 1: you might prefer to go for a run rather than

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Speaker 1: hit snooze. Or maybe you decide that, all things considered,

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Speaker 1: you would rather keep sleeping. What you choose is up

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Speaker 1: to you, but just realize that you are choosing. The

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Speaker 1: choices we are making aren't always obvious, but with practice,

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Speaker 1: we can start to recognize them. You may not naturally

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Speaker 1: ask yourself, what would you rather drive through the coffee

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Speaker 1: shop or browse the poetry section of the bookstore. But

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you spend twenty minutes now waiting

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Speaker 1: for your coffee, by the time you get to the

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Speaker 1: bookstore and choose a gift for your friend, it'll be

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Speaker 1: time to go to her birthday lunch. But if you

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Speaker 1: forego the coffee, you will leave yourself time to check

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Speaker 1: out the poetry books after you choose her gift, before

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Speaker 1: you drive to the birthday gathering. You are not just

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Speaker 1: deciding whether or not to have your almond milk cappuccino.

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Speaker 1: You are also deciding whether to have that coffee or

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Speaker 1: to peruse the new books in your favorite store. When

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Speaker 1: you reframe the choice more comprehensibly, you can decide what

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Speaker 1: you'd really rather do. Sometimes times they would you rather

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Speaker 1: will relate to one attractive option now and another further

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Speaker 1: in the future. Would you rather watch another episode of Hometown?

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Speaker 1: Or would you rather wake up well rested? Saying yes

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Speaker 1: to TV tonight means a frantic morning tomorrow. Is that

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Speaker 1: what you'd rather? Maybe? Maybe not, but that is the

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Speaker 1: choice on offer. In my time management fable Juliette School

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Speaker 1: of Possibilities, the Wise Juliette explains that when it comes

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Speaker 1: to time, we are always choosing. All we can do

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Speaker 1: is choose well. But doing that requires actually seeing the choices,

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Speaker 1: rather than pretending that they don't exist. So play would

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Speaker 1: you rather with your time? Get conscious of what you

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Speaker 1: are choosing between, and be intentional about your choices. This

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Speaker 1: allows you to choose in a way that creates the

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Speaker 1: life you want in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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