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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is that you don't need to sweat the seconds.

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Speaker 1: If you make good choices about your hours, you don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry too much about saving every second you can.

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Speaker 1: So I like life hacks like anyone else. I probably

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Speaker 1: like time saving strategies more than most people. So listeners

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Speaker 1: are sometimes surprised to hear that I don't use a

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Speaker 1: template for Before Breakfast scripts. Yes, that means I type

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Speaker 1: out the same opening and closing sentences two hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty times per year. Is that efficient? Probably not, But

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Speaker 1: typing those sentences takes me just a few seconds. If

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Speaker 1: I had a template that I called up every day instead,

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Speaker 1: maybe it would take me ten seconds versus twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So I could save on net fifteen seconds per weekday.

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Speaker 1: That is an hour and five minutes over the course

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Speaker 1: of a year, which may not be zero, but since

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Speaker 1: it comes in chunks of fifteen seconds, it is almost

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Speaker 1: impossible to use for much. Unlike money, I can't really

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Speaker 1: save those fifteen seconds each time and cash them in

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Speaker 1: with interest. Typing the opening lines gets me in the

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Speaker 1: frame of mind to write a script, so it's fine,

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Speaker 1: no need to sweat the seconds. People are also sometimes

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Speaker 1: surprised to learn that when I am away from my computer,

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Speaker 1: I email myself the data for my time tracking logs

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Speaker 1: and then transfer the information to my computer once I

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Speaker 1: am back at my desk. It could be much more efficient.

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Speaker 1: I guess to put a time tracking Google sheet on

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Speaker 1: my phone and enter the information directly. But I'm fine

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Speaker 1: with my current procedure. I have been doing it this

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Speaker 1: way for nine plus years. Is there a quicker way,

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Speaker 1: No doubt? Do I care? Nope. When we hear about

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Speaker 1: other people's efficiencies, it is easy to feel like we

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Speaker 1: are missing out if we don't seize that efficiency too.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we might even be embarrassed about doing something a

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Speaker 1: slower way, But there's no real reason for that. If

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Speaker 1: you are happy with your processes and you have room

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Speaker 1: for what you want in your life, carry on. I

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Speaker 1: love my work. I'm raising five happy kids. I train

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Speaker 1: for half marathons, I sing at a choir, I get

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Speaker 1: enough sleep. If the big stuff is in place, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't really matter if I could save ten seconds with

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Speaker 1: a keyboard shortcut. Indeed, I sometimes find that trying to

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Speaker 1: ring each little second out of something actually makes me

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Speaker 1: feel time poor. With time, I want to feel like

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Speaker 1: Scrooge McDuck diving into a pile of money. I have

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Speaker 1: so much time I can waste it not learning keyboard shortcuts.

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Speaker 1: That sounds pretty good to me. In the meantime. This

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Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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Speaker 1: most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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