WEBVTT - Everybody wastes time

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is that everybody wastes time. There is no

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<v Speaker 1>point feeling guilty about this. Instead, the goal is to

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<v Speaker 1>get curious so you can spend your time better in

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<v Speaker 1>the future. Whenever people ask me how they can spend

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<v Speaker 1>their time better, I suggest figuring out where the time

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<v Speaker 1>is going now. If you don't know where the time

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<v Speaker 1>is going now, how do you know if you're changing

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<v Speaker 1>the right thing. You want to be sure that you

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<v Speaker 1>are working from good data, and the best way to

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<v Speaker 1>get that data is to actually keep track of your time.

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<v Speaker 1>It is really not that hard, and yet I know

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<v Speaker 1>from long experience that many people simply do not want

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<v Speaker 1>to do this. That is fine, I don't like tracking

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<v Speaker 1>what I am eating or what I'm spending, but it

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<v Speaker 1>is important to understand this resistance. I find that often

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<v Speaker 1>the reason people don't want to write down how they

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<v Speaker 1>are spending their time is the same reason that I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to write down the two dozen crackers I've

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<v Speaker 1>grabbed from the pantry over the course of a day.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't want to know about all the choices we

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<v Speaker 1>are making. In the case of time, we don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to know how much time we are wasting. So that's

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<v Speaker 1>why I want people to know that everybody wastes time.

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<v Speaker 1>I waste time, You waste time. We all waste time.

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<v Speaker 1>When we accept that we can keep track of our

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<v Speaker 1>time with a little less judgment, we can look where

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<v Speaker 1>the time really goes without feeling bad or guilty. Instead,

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<v Speaker 1>we can ask good questions. What do we like about

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<v Speaker 1>our schedules? What do we want to spend more time doing,

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<v Speaker 1>What do we want to spend less time doing? So Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I have been procrastinating doing some important editing work by

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<v Speaker 1>spending hours reading comments sections on the internet. I have

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<v Speaker 1>made extra trips to Target because I forgot to make

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<v Speaker 1>a list of what I needed to buy during the

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<v Speaker 1>first trip. I once had to make a second trip

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<v Speaker 1>to the notary public because I made a clerical error

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<v Speaker 1>on a very important document. All of that was wasted time.

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<v Speaker 1>So what You've probably done similar things. When we recognize

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<v Speaker 1>that we all waste time, we can ask other questions

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<v Speaker 1>like did I make progress on my personal and professional

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<v Speaker 1>goals despite all this wasted time? If so, awesome? If not,

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<v Speaker 1>what do I intend to do about it. We can

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<v Speaker 1>ask if we are spending enough time on things we'd

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<v Speaker 1>find genuinely fun. Are we checking Facebook to see how

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<v Speaker 1>many likes a friend's post has gotten instead of, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>actually calling that friend. Are we reading the same email

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<v Speaker 1>ten times in a row in some distorted sense of

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<v Speaker 1>productivity rather than taking a real break. Good to know

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<v Speaker 1>and good to do something about. So as you think

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<v Speaker 1>about how you spend your time, I know that everybody

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<v Speaker 1>wastes time. It is the human condition. What matters more

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<v Speaker 1>is whether you do still carve out time for what matters,

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<v Speaker 1>and if you are not doing that, what you intend

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<v Speaker 1>to change to make that happen. Asking those questions isn't

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<v Speaker 1>wasting time at all. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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<v Speaker 1>our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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