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 shouldn't leave without scheduling the next time.
Speaker 1: If you need or want to do something again in
Speaker 1: the future, it is best to get the next date
Speaker 1: on the books at the time it is easiest to
Speaker 1: do so. So I really enjoy getting monthly massages. No
Speaker 1: was surprise there. A few years ago I sprang for
Speaker 1: the monthly package at Massage Envy, which involves getting one
Speaker 1: massage a month for a discounted rate. It's simple enough
Speaker 1: to call and book, but I often would get busy
Speaker 1: and wouldn't. Eventually I realized that I shouldn't walk out
Speaker 1: from one massage without booking my next massage. That increases
Speaker 1: the chances that I stick with a once a month cadence.
Speaker 1: Same with haircuts. Inevitably I wind up letting longer go
Speaker 1: between cuts than I want because I haven't booked the
Speaker 1: next cut. With a dentist, too, booking the next visit
Speaker 1: at your last one increases the odds that you show
Speaker 1: up every six months. My daughter sees a specialist at
Speaker 1: a hospital a few hours from our house, and we
Speaker 1: tend to go once or twice a year. I have
Speaker 1: found that I can avoid a lot of phone tree
Speaker 1: waiting if I just book the next visit any time
Speaker 1: I am there now. Of course, the problem in the
Speaker 1: last two examples is that it is hard to know
Speaker 1: what is going to go on in your life six
Speaker 1: to twelve months from now. But having a placeholder will
Speaker 1: at least remind you that this thing should be there.
Speaker 1: If you need to move it, so be it. By
Speaker 1: the way, that seems to be some provider's mindset as well.
Speaker 1: We got a note recently, as in during October or
Speaker 1: that an appointment for May would need to be moved
Speaker 1: at that point. That's totally fine. My schedule isn't that
Speaker 1: set for May. If they called to move it a
Speaker 1: week before, that would be more of a problem. When
Speaker 1: something is there, though, it is generally rescheduled instead of
Speaker 1: it just never happening. That's all fine for medical appointments,
Speaker 1: but it's actually a good idea for friend get togethers too. Now.
Speaker 1: The best way to do many social gatherings is just
Speaker 1: to have a regular cadence. You and a friend always
Speaker 1: have lunch on the first Monday of the month, or
Speaker 1: you run on the last Saturday of the month. But
Speaker 1: if you are not doing that, then scheduling your next
Speaker 1: get together while you are together means it's more likely
Speaker 1: to happen and you avoid the need to text back
Speaker 1: and forth on scheduling. In general, any back and forth
Speaker 1: scheduling negotiations done in person as a conversation tend to
Speaker 1: be more pleasant than those done electronically. When you schedule
Speaker 1: your next lunch with your friend while you're ending one lunch,
Speaker 1: then you can look forward to it. You know you
Speaker 1: will get together again soon, and that can make ending
Speaker 1: of one fun get together less of a letdown. I
Speaker 1: am all for anything that increases happiness in the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
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