WEBVTT - Make some time a specific 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 if there is something you want

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<v Speaker 1>to do, don't just intend to do it sometime. Get

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<v Speaker 1>it on the calendar for a specific time. That way

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<v Speaker 1>you will make sure it actually happens. If you're like

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people I hear from, you probably have

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<v Speaker 1>museums or restaurants or hiking trails in your town that

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<v Speaker 1>you have been meaning to go to for ages and

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<v Speaker 1>you just haven't. Or maybe you have an old friend

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<v Speaker 1>who lives just a few hours away and you keep

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<v Speaker 1>meaning to go see her for a weekend, but here

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<v Speaker 1>the years are ticking by. Call it the paradox of availability.

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<v Speaker 1>When we could go to a museum or a hiking

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<v Speaker 1>trail or a nearby friends home anytime we don't schedule

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<v Speaker 1>the experience, we figure we'll do it sometime. If that

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<v Speaker 1>museum fifteen minutes from your house is open from ten

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<v Speaker 1>to five every Tuesday through Saturday, why would you possibly

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<v Speaker 1>need to put it on your calendar. Here's why. If

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<v Speaker 1>it's on your calendar, you will go. You, like many

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<v Speaker 1>busy people, probably live by your calendar. So take advantage

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<v Speaker 1>of that truth to use your calendar to build a

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<v Speaker 1>full life schedule specific times for the things you've been

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<v Speaker 1>meaning to do. That way, they will actually happen. During

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<v Speaker 1>the worst days of the pandemic, when everywhere from children's

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<v Speaker 1>museums to botanical gardens to ice skating required time tickets

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<v Speaker 1>because of social distancing, a lot of people actually found

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<v Speaker 1>it easier to have the experience as they wanted. Why

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<v Speaker 1>because they had to make reservations, and then the reservations

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<v Speaker 1>became entries on their calendars. By and large, what's on

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<v Speaker 1>our calendars we do. Even now that timed tickets aren't

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<v Speaker 1>required as often as they used to be, timed plans

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<v Speaker 1>can still be valuable. Things that are theoretically as easy

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<v Speaker 1>to do as hiking on a trail a mile from

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<v Speaker 1>your house can wind up never happening when life's various

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<v Speaker 1>crises and distractions intervene. So get the intention out of

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<v Speaker 1>your head, hold a space for it, and let the

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<v Speaker 1>business fall in place around it. Even when it's not

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<v Speaker 1>necessary to plan ahead for external reasons like time to

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<v Speaker 1>tickets or reservations, it can be really helpful for internal reasons.

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<v Speaker 1>This is true for museum exhibits, you want to go

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<v Speaker 1>to restaurants, you want to try, friends you want to

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<v Speaker 1>have over, folks within driving distance, you want to visit,

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<v Speaker 1>and more. If you want these things to happen, get

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<v Speaker 1>them on the calendar for a specific time instead of

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<v Speaker 1>nursing the vague intention to do them sometime. When you

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<v Speaker 1>know they're coming up, you'll be able to anticipate them,

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<v Speaker 1>and the odds of them actually happening will rise considerably.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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