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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to be a little less responsible. Most

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Speaker 1: likely you will do the work that you always have

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Speaker 1: to do, and you will get it done on time.

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Speaker 1: So don't give recurring work your highest energy times. I

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Speaker 1: am writing this script on a Wednesday afternoon. Every week

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Speaker 1: I need to produce five Before Breakfast episodes, and I

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Speaker 1: love writing these little scripts and thinking about how I

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Speaker 1: can help take people's days from great to awesome. But

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Speaker 1: as long time listeners have observed, I have written more

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Speaker 1: than seven hundred of these vignettes. At this point, I

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Speaker 1: produced five every week. One way or another. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get it done because I am going to get

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Speaker 1: it done no matter what. It actually doesn't make sense

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Speaker 1: to give this task my absolute highest energy time. On

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Speaker 1: Monday mornings, I tend to feel like I can conquer

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Speaker 1: the world, So that is the time I should devote

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Speaker 1: to things I am not sure will happen, things like

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Speaker 1: coming up with book concepts or writing fiction, or brainstorming

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Speaker 1: new ways to promote this podcast or my other projects.

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Speaker 1: It's a good time to come up with ideas that

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Speaker 1: is harder. But say script execution, that is the writing

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Speaker 1: and recording. Well, that's fairly straightforward, so that I can

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Speaker 1: do in the middle of the week. It is my

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Speaker 1: job and I will get it done. Perhaps you similarly

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Speaker 1: have recurring work. You send a client an analysis this

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Speaker 1: every week you write feedback for a direct report on

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Speaker 1: his weekly projects. You are a very responsible person, and

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Speaker 1: so you always do these things, and you always do

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Speaker 1: them on time. Indeed, perhaps you tell yourself that you

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Speaker 1: should just do these weekly required things first, so they

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Speaker 1: are done. The decks are cleared. Now you can focus

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Speaker 1: on the speculative, harder stuff. But everyone runs out of steam.

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Speaker 1: So since you are so responsible, why not trust that

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Speaker 1: you are not about to suddenly not meet your obligations.

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Speaker 1: You will do the work you have to do, so

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Speaker 1: don't do it when you are capable of doing more complicated,

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Speaker 1: challenging speculative work. Be a little less responsible brainstorm ideas

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Speaker 1: for that new project. Be for you answer your clients email,

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Speaker 1: pitch the new work before you write up your weekly analysis.

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Speaker 1: Responsible people will do what they have to do. So

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Speaker 1: since you can rely on yourself, give yourself the chance

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Speaker 1: to do other things. When it might be a possibility.

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Speaker 1: That's how you keep things moving forward. 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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Speaker 1: hear from you. You can send me your tips, your questions,

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Speaker 1: number four, then Breakfast p o D. You can also

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Speaker 1: the letters. Thanks so much, I look forward to staying

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