WEBVTT - Email yourself 

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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 a simple strategy for when you need

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<v Speaker 1>to do something but can't do it now. Email a

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<v Speaker 1>note to yourself. You'll be far less likely to forget

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<v Speaker 1>what you meant to do. It would be great if

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<v Speaker 1>we only got good ideas when we were able to

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<v Speaker 1>deal with them. You'd think of people to reach out

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<v Speaker 1>to only during business hours and when you were sitting

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<v Speaker 1>at your desk with all the information you need, you

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<v Speaker 1>think of things you'd like to do in the future

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<v Speaker 1>precisely when you're designated weekly planning time rolls around, if

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<v Speaker 1>only right In the real world, many of us get

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<v Speaker 1>good ideas while sitting at the sideline of a kid's practice,

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<v Speaker 1>or while waiting in line for something, well out for

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<v Speaker 1>a walk, so it goes. Often we get these ideas

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<v Speaker 1>precisely because we aren't in our normal working spots. The

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<v Speaker 1>change tends to jar ideas loose. The problem is that

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<v Speaker 1>whatever good ideas we get, or even practical ideas we get,

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<v Speaker 1>like oh yeah, I should follow up with John, can

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<v Speaker 1>disappear as we keep going about our lives. But there's

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<v Speaker 1>a simple solution to this. Almost all of us carry

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<v Speaker 1>our phones with us pretty much everywhere. That means we

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<v Speaker 1>can send an email whenever we get those great ideas.

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<v Speaker 1>I imagine that most people listening to this podcast do

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<v Speaker 1>eventually sort through their primary inboxes. We may not get

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<v Speaker 1>to current quickly, but our main inbox will be addressed

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<v Speaker 1>at some point. That means that it's a reasonable place

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<v Speaker 1>to store anything, knowing it will be looked at again.

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<v Speaker 1>So when you get an idea or remember something you

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<v Speaker 1>need to do, send it as an email to yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>Then when you are processing your email later on, you

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<v Speaker 1>can add that item to your calendar or to your

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<v Speaker 1>to do list, or you can write it wherever you

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<v Speaker 1>will look when you have your weekly planning session, because

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<v Speaker 1>you do have a designated weekly planning time right, this

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<v Speaker 1>works pretty well. A few weeks ago, I remembered, while

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<v Speaker 1>at the sideline of some kit event, that I needed

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<v Speaker 1>to follow up with two former employees about some tax

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<v Speaker 1>forms from I couldn't do much about this at the sidelines.

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<v Speaker 1>I needed access to those files and PDFs or printing,

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<v Speaker 1>but I also really needed to do it, so I

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<v Speaker 1>sent an email to myself. Then when I got through

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<v Speaker 1>my inbox. Next, I put it on the to do

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<v Speaker 1>list for the week. Everyone was located and sent the

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<v Speaker 1>appropriate forms in the form they preferred before the deadline

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<v Speaker 1>problem solved. There are various ways to capture ideas. I

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<v Speaker 1>know some people use the note function on their phones,

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<v Speaker 1>or send themselves voicemails, or have little notepads or sticky

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<v Speaker 1>notes with them. These are all great if they work,

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<v Speaker 1>but I've found that the email to yourself approach works

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<v Speaker 1>best because we always do have our phones and we

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<v Speaker 1>do generally process emails. Let's just say that sticky notes

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes get lost in my purse. It's a far less

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<v Speaker 1>sure system. If you have a good way of capturing ideas,

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<v Speaker 1>I'd love to hear about it. You can reach me

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<v Speaker 1>at Laura at Laura Vanderkamp dot com. In the meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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<v Speaker 1>the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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