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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 try tracking time when you are

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Speaker 1: not working, such as on weekends and particularly on vacation.

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds a little strange as a tip,

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Speaker 1: like maybe I don't understand the concept of a vacation,

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Speaker 1: but I have found that tracking time truly cements memories

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Speaker 1: and helps me appreciate this time off the clock. More

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Speaker 1: time keeps passing no matter what we do, and so

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Speaker 1: it is easy to spend time mindlessly. We often need

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Speaker 1: to be accountable for our work hours. Either we are

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Speaker 1: paid by the hour, or we need to build clients,

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Speaker 1: or at least we need to get things done at

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Speaker 1: certain times. The whole phrase off the clock hence at

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Speaker 1: a difference between work and not work. One of the

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Speaker 1: theoretical benefits of not work time is not needing to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to the passing minutes. And yet that is

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Speaker 1: not really true. If you have kids or pets, you

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Speaker 1: are no doubt accountable for them and their upkeep at

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Speaker 1: certain times. We all have household responsibilities. We need to

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Speaker 1: sleep certain quantities of ours in order to maintain our

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Speaker 1: health and energy. We also have things we wish to

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Speaker 1: do with our discretionary time, whether that's adventures or time

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Speaker 1: with friends or hobbies. These things tend not to happen

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Speaker 1: unless we are intentional about them and choose times for them.

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Speaker 1: When we are intentional, we tend to have a better

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Speaker 1: recall of our time. But even so, our memories can

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Speaker 1: easily slip away. We can look at photos, but those

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Speaker 1: only capture well snapshots in time. When you record how

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Speaker 1: you spend your time, on the other hand, the memories

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Speaker 1: become more accessible. You can conjure almost all of them

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Speaker 1: back up. Indeed, it's not that hard to do so.

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Speaker 1: I have been tracking my time continuously since April. I

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Speaker 1: check in about three times a day and write what

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Speaker 1: I've done since the last check in. This only takes

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Speaker 1: me a minute each time, so we're talking three minutes

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Speaker 1: a day. It's about the same amount of time I

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Speaker 1: spend brushing my teeth. My memory is as faulty as

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Speaker 1: the next person's, but because I have these records, I

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Speaker 1: am able to bring back all sorts of memories. For instance,

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Speaker 1: I recently decided to pull up a week in April

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Speaker 1: to compare it to April. I knew roughly that we

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Speaker 1: had gone to Hawaii in April, but thanks to my

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Speaker 1: time log, I know what we did on the plane

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Speaker 1: right there. I remember the process of getting our rental car.

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Speaker 1: I remember the pizza we found that first night, and

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Speaker 1: whether we went on the resort water slides in the

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Speaker 1: afternoon or morning, and which afternoon it was. That I

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Speaker 1: spent a lovely hour reading on the balcony while my

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Speaker 1: kids were at the kids club. All of it is

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Speaker 1: still there. Having those memories there and accessible is a

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Speaker 1: huge upside, and the only cost was being willing to

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Speaker 1: spend three minutes a day recording what I've done now.

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Speaker 1: I know that some people worry that noting how they

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Speaker 1: spend their time on vacation would make them feel less relaxed,

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Speaker 1: But I guess my question is why it's not a judgment.

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Speaker 1: No one really cares if you spent an hour watching

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Speaker 1: TV when there was a fabulous sunset going on outside

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Speaker 1: and you just missed it. Whoops. No one cares if

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Speaker 1: you stayed up until two am some night reading or whatever.

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Speaker 1: It is just information. You don't need to learn any

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Speaker 1: lessons based on this log. Instead, think of it as memory.

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Speaker 1: Keeping like a scrap book. When you have a good time,

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to look back later at the log

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Speaker 1: and note every hour of this precious time. When you

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Speaker 1: look at the photos, that will reinforce the time records,

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Speaker 1: and all of this will help you truly believe that

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Speaker 1: you live a rich and full life. So why not

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Speaker 1: give it a try. If you want to take baby steps,

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Speaker 1: try tracking time over the weekend for a few weekends

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Speaker 1: just to get in the habit. Hopefully you will have

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Speaker 1: some adventures then to remember as well, and you will

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Speaker 1: be ready to get tracking the next time you go

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Speaker 1: somewhere special. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: list thinks and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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