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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 remind yourself about what you need

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Speaker 1: to do at a time when you can get it done.

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Speaker 1: That way, you're less likely to forget. There are a

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Speaker 1: lot of things people need to do in a day,

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Speaker 1: like pick up the dry cleaning, reschedule a dentist appointment,

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Speaker 1: get your boss's thoughts about an upcoming presentation. The list

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Speaker 1: goes on. If you are listening to this podcast, I

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Speaker 1: am guessing that you don't try to keep track of

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Speaker 1: all these obligations in your brain. You have a to

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Speaker 1: do list, a planner, a calendar. That is all great,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes the tasks need to be done at a

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Speaker 1: time when you aren't looking at any of these things.

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Speaker 1: What then you need to figure out how to remember

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Speaker 1: what you need to do when you can take immediate

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Speaker 1: action to do it. For many things, this is straightforward

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Speaker 1: if it requires some creativity. For instance, if you want

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Speaker 1: to pick up the dry cleaning on the way to work,

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Speaker 1: put the pickup slip on the driver's seat of your car.

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Speaker 1: Then when you get in the car, you'll remember. Do

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Speaker 1: you that you need to go pick up the dry

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Speaker 1: cleaning on your way to work. If you need to

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Speaker 1: reschedule your dentist appointment during regular business hours, you could

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Speaker 1: set an alarm for ten thirty am. When it goes off,

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Speaker 1: you'll remember, oh, yes, dentist. If you can't call right

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Speaker 1: then you can just snooze the reminder so you will

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Speaker 1: be reminded again in a few minutes. If you want

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Speaker 1: to check in with your boss about an upcoming presentation,

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Speaker 1: you might put a post it note reminder to yourself

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Speaker 1: on another document that you need to give her. Then

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Speaker 1: when you drop off the document, you will see the

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Speaker 1: post it and be reminded to ask her about the

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Speaker 1: presentation at the same time. In addition to practical tasks

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Speaker 1: like picking up the dry cleaning, we might have priorities

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Speaker 1: we want to follow through on, like choosing a healthy lunch.

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Speaker 1: Despite our best intentions, we can forget about these in

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Speaker 1: the moment. Now that might seem silly, really you're going

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Speaker 1: to forget to order the salad. But in her book

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Speaker 1: How to Change, Katie Milkman reports that forgetting is actually

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Speaker 1: a really common reason that people don't follow through on

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Speaker 1: behaviors they intend to do. Like voting or reading to

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Speaker 1: their kids. Milkman explains that reminders can help with priorities

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Speaker 1: like these two, especially if the reminders are immediately actionable.

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Speaker 1: Just as placing the dry cleaning ticket on your car

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Speaker 1: seat will remind you to go to the cleaners, you

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Speaker 1: can remind yourself to read to your kids by keeping

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Speaker 1: their toothpaste in a basket on top of their bookcase.

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Speaker 1: When you go to the bookcase to get the toothpaste

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Speaker 1: to brush their teeth. You can also choose a book

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Speaker 1: to read when everyone's done brushing. If you want to

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Speaker 1: eat healthy lunches when you're at work, maybe set a

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Speaker 1: calendar reminder for yourself at noon every weekday that says

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Speaker 1: I love salad or eat well, feel well, or whatever

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Speaker 1: will make you choose the healthy meal that you want

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Speaker 1: to choose instead of forgetting and just ordering what you

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Speaker 1: always do. In any case, the big idea is the same.

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Speaker 1: Consider the moment when you need to act on your

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Speaker 1: intentions and create a reminder for that moment. Any other

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Speaker 1: time is not going to be so helpful, but the

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Speaker 1: moment when you can act that is golden, and a

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Speaker 1: good nudge increases the chances that you follow through In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's

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Speaker 1: too making the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd

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