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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 reflect on the highlight of the week

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Speaker 1: as part of your regular weekly planning session. Take just

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Speaker 1: a moment to think back on what you really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: over the previous seven days. Not only can this put

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Speaker 1: you in a positive frame of mind, it can give

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Speaker 1: you good ideas for the next week. Two longtime listeners

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Speaker 1: know that I recommend everyone get in the habit of

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Speaker 1: having a regular weekly planning time. This allows you to

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Speaker 1: look forward to the next week and figure out what

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Speaker 1: is most important to you professionally and personally. You can

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Speaker 1: figure out a plan to make those things happen. I

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Speaker 1: tend to do this on Thursdays or Fridays, but other

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Speaker 1: people do it on Sundays or maybe Monday morning. The

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Speaker 1: time itself doesn't matter as much as the fact that

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Speaker 1: you'd do it. But when you do it, though, I

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Speaker 1: find it as helpful to do just a little reflection.

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Speaker 1: By taking a minute to think about the previous week,

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Speaker 1: you can make the next week's plan more realistic. For instance,

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Speaker 1: if you thought you'd get a certain amount of work

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Speaker 1: done on a project and you didn't, You probably shouldn't

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Speaker 1: assign yourself the same amount or even more for the

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Speaker 1: next week. It won't happen. Reflection isn't all negative, though.

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Speaker 1: You should also get in the habit of identifying what

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Speaker 1: over the previous week was an absolute highlight, what was

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Speaker 1: most memorable or wonderful. You could write this down somewhere.

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Speaker 1: It's a great list to keep, or if someone was

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Speaker 1: with you, you might tell them. You might text a friend

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Speaker 1: to say, the highlight of my week was lunch with

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Speaker 1: you on Monday. I love that we can still see

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Speaker 1: each other twice a year and connect as deeply as ever.

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Speaker 1: Or you might tell your preschooler the highlight of my

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Speaker 1: week was going to the butterfly pavilion with you and

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Speaker 1: seeing a butterfly land on your shoulder. Some highlights may

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Speaker 1: occur in your professional or volunteer work, perhaps a meeting

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Speaker 1: that is especially productive, a presentation that you ace, or

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Speaker 1: a discussion with a direct report that sets him on

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Speaker 1: a path to growth. Even if it doesn't feel right

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Speaker 1: to remind the other people of moments like these, you

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Speaker 1: can still savor the highlight yourself. I track my time

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Speaker 1: on weekly spreadsheets that go from Monday at five am

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Speaker 1: to Monday at four thirty am. That means I am

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Speaker 1: opening a new spreadsheet and archiving the old one on

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Speaker 1: Monday mornings. So as I save the old one, I

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Speaker 1: take a minute to look over it. I look to

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Speaker 1: see what was most interesting and pleasurable over the previous week.

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Speaker 1: I can enjoy the memory. Indeed, I can make a

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Speaker 1: memory a little stronger by taking a moment to consciously

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Speaker 1: file it away. Lingering with a positive memory is fun

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Speaker 1: in its own right, But an added bonus of taking

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Speaker 1: note of last week's highlight is that then you can

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Speaker 1: ask if this is something you'd like to add into

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Speaker 1: your life in the future. After all, this is happening

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Speaker 1: as you are planning your upcoming week. If walking with

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Speaker 1: a friend was a highlight last week, it suggests that

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Speaker 1: maybe this is something you would like to add into

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Speaker 1: your life more regularly. With some good planning, you probably

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Speaker 1: could if you try the highlight of the week routine.

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Speaker 1: I would love to hear how it goes. You can

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Speaker 1: reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's

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Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: 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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