Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is to build in a few minutes before
Speaker 2: and after scheduled meetings or appointments so you can connect
Speaker 2: with other people. This will let you invest a little
Speaker 2: time in your relationships and keeps you from being late
Speaker 2: to everything else. So if you tend to be more
Speaker 2: task oriented or schedule oriented, which I will freely admit
Speaker 2: to being, you may go through life focused on what
Speaker 2: you need to do at what time. You may also
Speaker 2: not leave much transition time in between things. You finish
Speaker 2: one meeting, you put your head down and make notes
Speaker 2: about your follow ups, and two minutes later you are
Speaker 2: power walking down the hall to your next meeting. And
Speaker 2: in many ways that is fine. You are showing up
Speaker 2: where you need to be. But if you are bothering
Speaker 2: to be in the same place as other people, which
Speaker 2: we often don't have to be these days, it might
Speaker 2: be nice to connect outside the scheduled agenda. Racing from
Speaker 2: one thing to the next means there's no time for that.
Speaker 2: Something similar can happen in our personal lives. You sprint
Speaker 2: out of your office to make it to your yoga
Speaker 2: class and then you leave as soon as the class
Speaker 2: is over, or you arrive at your kid's school approximately
Speaker 2: thirty seconds before the program begins and you leave right
Speaker 2: at the final bows. You got to do everything. But
Speaker 2: if you bother to be somewhere in person, sometimes it's
Speaker 2: nice to connect with the other people who are there
Speaker 2: in person too. To some degree, that is a big
Speaker 2: part of the point of being there. Now. I know
Speaker 2: not everyone looks at life this way. Some people are
Speaker 2: more people oriented and they always make time for conversation
Speaker 2: they're wondering what I'm talking about here, But that has
Speaker 2: a tendency to also make people late to many things,
Speaker 2: and that is not great either. So either way, it
Speaker 2: helps to just actually build in five to ten minutes
Speaker 2: on either side of an activity to interact with the
Speaker 2: other participants. If you've got a meeting from eight to
Speaker 2: nine in the morning, you aim to have your next
Speaker 2: thing start at nine point fifteen or possibly even nine thirty,
Speaker 2: so you can chat with colleagues as you are refilling
Speaker 2: your coffee. For those who automatically chat over coffee, that
Speaker 2: buffer means you are not late to the next thing.
Speaker 2: For those of us who are more task oriented. It's
Speaker 2: a nudge to remind ourselves that we don't have to
Speaker 2: race out. We have built in space in the schedule
Speaker 2: to accommodate a chat about jones vacation or Bob's new puppy.
Speaker 2: Whether you spend too much time or too little time
Speaker 2: on an activity, simply building a certain quantity of space
Speaker 2: into the schedule can help manage those tendencies. You create
Speaker 2: space if you otherwise, wouldn't you build it in if
Speaker 2: you do it anyway. Either way, you get to have
Speaker 2: your connection and still stay on time. That really is
Speaker 2: the best of both worlds. If you try building in
Speaker 2: a little social time, you can let me know how
Speaker 2: it goes at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In
Speaker 2: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's
Speaker 2: to making the most of our time.
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