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 if you are feeling stretched, don't invest
Speaker 1: more time or mental energy into tasks than they deserve.
Speaker 1: Often done is good enough, and generally done is better
Speaker 1: than delaying in the hope of producing something marginally better.
Speaker 1: So listeners to Before Breakfast tend to be a high
Speaker 1: achieving bunch. You have ambitious standards, You aim for excellence,
Speaker 1: and that is great. But if you want to do
Speaker 1: a lot with your life, you generally have to choose
Speaker 1: where to devote your time and skills, and often there
Speaker 1: might be easier ways to do whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you are doing. For instance, printed invitations to a party
Speaker 1: are cute, but you could also just use paperless posts
Speaker 1: or evite and be done quickly. As for that party itself,
Speaker 1: does it really need to be catered or feature all
Speaker 1: your homemade food? Costco has great shrimp and appetizer platters.
Speaker 1: Most grocery stores sell sheet cakes. It will be fine.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people intend for weeks to write a sympathy card
Speaker 1: to a friend who has lost a relative, perhaps a
Speaker 1: heartfelt note sharing your memories of the deceased is the
Speaker 1: gold standard. But if you seem to keep putting that off,
Speaker 1: whether because you can't seem to find the time or
Speaker 1: just can't find the right words, then grab a ready
Speaker 1: made sympathy card at the grocery store, sign your name,
Speaker 1: and get it in the mail. Done is better than perfect,
Speaker 1: because there is no perfect without being done. There is
Speaker 1: no practical difference between someone who puts off sending a
Speaker 1: sympathy card because they are agonizing over the right words
Speaker 1: and someone who just forgets. In both cases, no sympathy
Speaker 1: was expressed, so just get it done. Professionally too, we
Speaker 1: can let perfect be the enemy of done. And yes,
Speaker 1: you want to do a good job, but if you
Speaker 1: have a big job, you probably can't do everything that
Speaker 1: is in your purview with the same level of detail.
Speaker 1: Time spent editing that meeting agenda over and over again
Speaker 1: is time that people don't have that agenda so they
Speaker 1: can prepare. It's probably better that other people spend the
Speaker 1: time preparing than that you agonize have reached bullet point.
Speaker 1: If there is an internal report that required but doesn't
Speaker 1: actually get used, a quick pass at it may be fine. Realistically,
Speaker 1: people often delay a task because it seems too hard
Speaker 1: or time consuming, and then end up doing a paaradown
Speaker 1: version anyway. So just go with a paaradown version from
Speaker 1: the start. At least you'll spend a little less time
Speaker 1: thinking about it in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,
Speaker 1: or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura
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