Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that you have time to be human. There
Speaker 1: is no real point in pretending you are a machine.
Speaker 1: If taking a few minutes for something would make you
Speaker 1: feel a lot, better, take them. So. I know we
Speaker 1: are all busy these days, and I talk with many
Speaker 1: people who feel like they go, go go from dawn
Speaker 1: until night. Some of this might be circumstanced and some
Speaker 1: might be self imposed. But if you are feeling particularly frenzied,
Speaker 1: it might help to remind yourself that most small things
Speaker 1: that make us feel human don't actually take that much time.
Speaker 1: For instance, if you want to eat breakfast, you probably
Speaker 1: have time to eat breakfast. The food industry has spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time and effort convincing us that we
Speaker 1: have to eat bars or shakes on the go or something,
Speaker 1: but I'm not really sure that's true. I can attest
Speaker 1: that I fry myself eggs most mornings, and it might
Speaker 1: take all of two more minutes than putting a pop
Speaker 1: tart in the toaster. Likewise, if you do not wish
Speaker 1: to eat at your desk, then you can probably stop
Speaker 1: working for a few minutes to eat lunch, go outside,
Speaker 1: or at least go find a table or grab a
Speaker 1: work friend and eat together. I'd add that asking someone
Speaker 1: how they are doing and then listening to their answer
Speaker 1: generally doesn't take that much time. Not true. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: go on for a while, but even if they do it,
Speaker 1: the rare person who is going to take more than
Speaker 1: five minutes. Truly, five minutes is actually a really long
Speaker 1: time to go on about your weekend. Most people won't
Speaker 1: do that in a casual conversation, and so it is
Speaker 1: okay to stop and talk to someone and not look
Speaker 1: at your phone while you are doing so. You have
Speaker 1: time to be a good human. Or there's this one.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've got back to back meetings and you find
Speaker 1: yourself racing between them. Guess what, you have time to
Speaker 1: be human in a biological sense. If you need to
Speaker 1: grab a snack or a drink of water or go
Speaker 1: to the restroom, you can. You will be less than
Speaker 1: five minutes late, and I'm guessing you will be a
Speaker 1: lot more comfortable. Now. None of this is an excuse
Speaker 1: for not doing things in a timely manner. And if
Speaker 1: you are always running late to everything. It might be
Speaker 1: worth looking to why that is and maybe building in
Speaker 1: more time for transitions. Sometimes things truly do have to
Speaker 1: happen quickly. If stopping at the bathroom means you miss
Speaker 1: your flight, well maybe you just wait and go on
Speaker 1: the plane. But I suspect that for a lot of
Speaker 1: people listening to this, your general daily schedule might have
Speaker 1: a bit more given it than you think it does.
Speaker 1: So if a few minutes would make you feel like
Speaker 1: a human, go for it. You have time to be human,
Speaker 1: because well you are one. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've
Speaker 1: got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at
Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a
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