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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to schedule some low key days. If you

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Speaker 1: can see that a stretch of time is going to

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Speaker 1: be busier than other stretches, try to keep a few

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Speaker 1: days relatively unscheduled. You might wind up needing the time,

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Speaker 1: but even if you don't, you will probably appreciate having it.

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Speaker 1: So mid February was a bit of a blur for me.

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Speaker 1: My husband was gone for a long weekend that wound

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Speaker 1: up being incredibly busy with kid stuff and with my stuff.

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Speaker 1: We then left shortly after that for a five day

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Speaker 1: family trip toy World. We came home and immediately had

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Speaker 1: a bunch of scheduled stuff like kid doctor appointments on

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Speaker 1: the next day. By the time I looked up after

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Speaker 1: this ten day stretch, I was feeling behind on everything.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't done an email triage in ages, so there

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Speaker 1: was all kinds of stuff lurking in my inbox. Calls

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Speaker 1: and meetings and life maintenance that had been punted forward

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Speaker 1: now had to be dealt with. But fortunately I hadn't

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Speaker 1: scheduled much After Wednesday, of that particular week. And as

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Speaker 1: I looked at my relatively open Wednesday and Thursday, with

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Speaker 1: nothing scheduled until late afternoon, I breathed a sigh of relief.

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Speaker 1: I could get caught up, and I did, and then

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Speaker 1: after getting mostly caught up, I could walk around and

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Speaker 1: brainstorm some ideas and just generally enjoy the feeling of

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Speaker 1: open space. Perhaps you two are going through a busy time,

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Speaker 1: or you can see a busy stretch coming up. I

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Speaker 1: know that when I can remember a month or two

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Speaker 1: ahead of time what all the days and dates of

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Speaker 1: a month are, that is a sign that there is

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Speaker 1: a lot going on. Why, yes, I did know that

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Speaker 1: May eighth is a Wednesday, because I had already looked

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Speaker 1: at multiple things scheduled that week more than two months ahead. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we will be battening down the hatches. But when you

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Speaker 1: take a step back, look at your calendar holistically and

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Speaker 1: see this, you can also try to schedule in some

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Speaker 1: lower key days even during the busy times. If Monday, Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and Wednesday of an upcoming week are absolutely swamped, be

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Speaker 1: extremely judicious about Thursday and Friday. If anything non urgent

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Speaker 1: tries to land on those days, kick it forward a week.

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Speaker 1: Here is why inevitably something will go wrong or something

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Speaker 1: will come up on those jam packed days. When it does,

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Speaker 1: you will need a space to put it. The more

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Speaker 1: days that are jam packed, the more trouble you will

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Speaker 1: have finding a spot. I needed to get one of

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Speaker 1: my kids in to see a specialist about something, and

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Speaker 1: when they had a cancelation on one of my low

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Speaker 1: key days, I was able to take it without disaster.

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Speaker 1: Ensuing I had been contacted about multiple potential radio interviews

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Speaker 1: while I was away with my family. Now I wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to do a radio interview from Disney World, but

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Speaker 1: since I am not exactly breaking news, I could tell

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Speaker 1: those producers that Wednesday was wide open, so I was

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Speaker 1: still able to appear on a few of those shows.

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Speaker 1: Even if you don't need the time, though, you will

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Speaker 1: probably be glad you have it. Since I had a

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Speaker 1: few low key days after my busy stretch, I was

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Speaker 1: able to take a leisurely stroll through the prior two

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Speaker 1: weeks of my inbox. I could send more thoughtful responses

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Speaker 1: to the people who had reached out to me. Perhaps

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Speaker 1: the more thoughtful responses made up for the lack of

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Speaker 1: timeliness in my responses or maybe not, but hey, I

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Speaker 1: could think about future ideas for my various content calendars.

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Speaker 1: I felt a lot less frantic. Perhaps you will feel

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Speaker 1: the same. So to day, take a look at your calendar.

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Speaker 1: If you can see a tough stretch coming up, see

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Speaker 1: if you can give yourself a day or two to

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Speaker 1: thaw out. See if you can do your best to

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Speaker 1: protect that time. Maybe you won't be able to, but

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Speaker 1: it might be worth trying. We can't run at a

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Speaker 1: frenzied pace forever without our batteries running out. Blocking in

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Speaker 1: a day or two to recharge means the machine can

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Speaker 1: run longer in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,

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Speaker 1: or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura

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