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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 if you seem to be carrying more

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Speaker 1: of the organizational weight in various situations, consider what would

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Speaker 1: happen if you weren't there, and prompt the other people

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Speaker 1: involved to take a little more of the initiative. After all,

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Speaker 1: in many cases we can't always be there, so it

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Speaker 1: is good to figure this out when it is not

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Speaker 1: a crisis. I know that Before Breakfast listeners are productive

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Speaker 1: and dependable sorts. That means that people often look to

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Speaker 1: you to manage situations, deal with logistics, and organize everything,

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Speaker 1: which can be fine, But if you are and with

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Speaker 1: is a little limited, you might nicely nudge people to

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Speaker 1: figure out how to handle things without you. For instance,

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Speaker 1: maybe you have been organizing the holiday lunch at your

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Speaker 1: office for the last few years. People will expect you

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Speaker 1: to do it all again. But maybe you are out

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Speaker 1: on maternity leave four years ago over the holidays and

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Speaker 1: something happened there was some holiday celebration. This is within

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Speaker 1: institutional memory, so you could ask people what they did

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Speaker 1: then and then just suggest it get repeated or perhaps

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Speaker 1: your crew of teens and preteens has gotten a little

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Speaker 1: too dependent on you nudging them along in the morning.

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Speaker 1: You could ask what they would do if you weren't

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Speaker 1: there and help them set up alarms or other reminders

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Speaker 1: to make that same schedule happen. Indeed, maybe you could

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Speaker 1: be gone some morning early to give it a trial run.

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Speaker 1: Even little kids can sometimes be nudged to take the initiative.

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Speaker 1: Your five year old asks you to get him water,

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Speaker 1: You ask what he would do if you weren't there,

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Speaker 1: and he remembers that the kid friendly cups, bowls, and

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Speaker 1: plates are in a drawer he can reach, and he

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Speaker 1: can turn on the sink by himself in the bathroom

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Speaker 1: or use a step stool in the kitchen to reach

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Speaker 1: that one. Now, obviously, in many situations we get help

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Speaker 1: from others, and we help each other out too, But

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Speaker 1: in general, in any organization or family, it is good

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Speaker 1: to figure out how systems would run if one person

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Speaker 1: was absent. If you were very sick for a while,

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Speaker 1: your family would have to figure something out. Your workplace

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Speaker 1: would need to figure something out too, So sometimes it

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Speaker 1: is good to think through scenarios when it is not

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Speaker 1: a crisis. And to make all systems a little more resilient.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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