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 to stop rolling things over from one
Speaker 1: week to the next. Either do it or be done
Speaker 1: with it for good. I know a lot of Before
Speaker 1: Breakfast listeners make weekly priority lists. This is smart, but
Speaker 1: many people soon notice something. As one listener recently wrote in,
Speaker 1: I find that I am transferring some of the same
Speaker 1: priorities over week to week and never doing them, even
Speaker 1: though I feel very busy. This listener wondered if perhaps
Speaker 1: this was her indirect way of telling herself that these
Speaker 1: things weren't her real priorities. I think she's made a
Speaker 1: good insight here. Plenty of things sound smart in theory.
Speaker 1: If we had infinite time and infinite energy, sure we'd
Speaker 1: tackle them. We'd also probably get to them if something
Speaker 1: suddenly made them rise up the priority list. If someone
Speaker 1: said she'd give you a hundred thousand dollars as soon
Speaker 1: as you finished that book proposal, well I am guessing
Speaker 1: that you'd get to it. Absent that. When we keep
Speaker 1: rolling stuff over week to week, the most likely explanation
Speaker 1: is that we don't really want to do them. And
Speaker 1: if it isn't something like say your taxes that do
Speaker 1: in fact have to happen, that's fine. Expectations are infinite.
Speaker 1: Time is finite. We are always choosing, so all we
Speaker 1: can really do is choose. Well. Now, if that gets
Speaker 1: your hackles up, no, I really do want to paint
Speaker 1: my bathroom, even though I've rolled it over for ten weeks. Now,
Speaker 1: then give yourself an ultimatum. Either it happens this week
Speaker 1: or it doesn't happen now. I am sure that this
Speaker 1: week is busy, but come on, life is always busy.
Speaker 1: There will never be a perfect week where all the
Speaker 1: stars aligned and you will gleefully paint your bathroom without
Speaker 1: a care in the world so absent that you can
Speaker 1: decide to do it now or decide not to do it,
Speaker 1: And if you choose the latter, well great, there is
Speaker 1: great peace to be achieved. And simply acknowledging that you
Speaker 1: will not be doing something. You aren't going to return
Speaker 1: that email because it truly isn't worth your time. You
Speaker 1: aren't going to reach out to that person your friends
Speaker 1: suggested because you just don't have the capacity to manage
Speaker 1: that new potential relationship. You are not going to research
Speaker 1: archery classes for your kids because they don't really care enough,
Speaker 1: and neither do you. Wise people will have pointed out
Speaker 1: that our calendars really are our priorities. You can say
Speaker 1: something is a priority, but if there is no time
Speaker 1: devoted to it, and then it probably isn't. You can
Speaker 1: do various exercises to find your true priorities, but time
Speaker 1: tracking is probably the best way. When stuff rolls over
Speaker 1: week to week, it most likely just isn't making the cut,
Speaker 1: so it goes Do it now or don't do it
Speaker 1: that way you'll know for sure. In the meantime, This
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear
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