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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 to look at the next year's schedule. Many

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Speaker 1: organizations and institutions create their calendars a year or more

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Speaker 1: ahead of time, and the calendar already exists for pretty

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Speaker 1: much any future year that you might be alive to experience.

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Speaker 1: So why not look ahead a little bit so you

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Speaker 1: can be prepared. So a year or so ago, my

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Speaker 1: choir director was mentioning choosing a work for the spring concert,

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Speaker 1: and he noted that in twenty twenty four we could

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Speaker 1: choose a longer, more challenging work for late spring, since Easter,

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Speaker 1: which we also sing a lot for, would be early.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't really thought about that, but sure enough, I

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Speaker 1: looked at the calendar and saw that Easter would be

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Speaker 1: March thirty. First, I looked at my kid's school calendar,

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Speaker 1: which the district had posted a year ahead of time, too,

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Speaker 1: and saw that spring break would be the last week

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Speaker 1: of March, a reality which can suggest slightly different planning

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Speaker 1: than when it's in late April. I then decided to

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Speaker 1: keep looking ahead and saw that since Christmas falls on

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday in twenty twenty four. That year's Christmas break

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Speaker 1: that is the one that straddles twenty twenty four into

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, will be almost two weeks long. I

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Speaker 1: have been fantasizing about a trip to the Southern Hemisphere,

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Speaker 1: and while I don't know if that will happen, that

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Speaker 1: would be a much better year to do it than

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Speaker 1: a year when the kids only get a week off

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Speaker 1: over the holidays. Yes, all of this is a long

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Speaker 1: time in the future, and yes I planned far ahead

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and wound up with everything canceled. Still,

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Speaker 1: there are certain things that are unlikely to happen if

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Speaker 1: you don't plan ahead, and looking at the upcoming calendar

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Speaker 1: can help you think about possibilities. So why not take

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Speaker 1: a little time to do it. If your kid's school

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Speaker 1: calendar for upcoming years has been published, look at it.

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Speaker 1: If you are part of another huge institution, like a university,

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Speaker 1: you can look at those calendars too. Certain holidays that

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Speaker 1: move around each year, like Easter or Thanksgiving, might be

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Speaker 1: worth studying, and it might be helpful to see the

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Speaker 1: day of the week that holidays fall on too. That's

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Speaker 1: because when something like the fourth of July happens on

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday, that winds up being a peak week for traveling,

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Speaker 1: since many offices will be closed for part of it.

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Speaker 1: But many people don't look at this, and they notice

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Speaker 1: this only a few weeks before. If you look enough

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Speaker 1: ahead of time, you could put in a request for

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Speaker 1: time off if you need to do that. You can

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Speaker 1: also avoid randomly scheduling stuff like a doctor's appointment for

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Speaker 1: the week of July fourth that you are just going

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Speaker 1: to wind up canceling once you see the holiday falls

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Speaker 1: midweek and you know you'll want to be gone. You

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Speaker 1: can also avoid getting caught unaware if school ends on

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Speaker 1: a Monday or Tuesday in June. Most camps won't start

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Speaker 1: until the Monday after. If you will need to work,

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Speaker 1: best to know that you'll need to figure out coverage

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Speaker 1: for those days. More lead time just means more options anyway.

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Speaker 1: I know we can spend too much time pondering the future.

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Speaker 1: I am well aware of that. However, I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's any problem with just being generally aware of the

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Speaker 1: contours of the future. Given that many institutions do their

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Speaker 1: schedules quite a bit ahead of time. This allows you

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Speaker 1: the chance to plan ahead for days off and to

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Speaker 1: make more seamless transitions. You don't need to solve all

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Speaker 1: problems or seize all possibilities, but it becomes easier to

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Speaker 1: do so when you know at least roughly what the

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Speaker 1: calendar looks like. So look ahead to next year's schedule

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Speaker 1: and you can start figuring out how to make the

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Speaker 1: upcoming years the best they can possibly be. In the meantime,

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

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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