Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is too deepen time. No one gets more
Speaker 1: than one hundred sixty eight hours in a week, but
Speaker 1: by being mindful of where the time is going, it
Speaker 1: is possible to make each hour count for more. When
Speaker 1: this episode is first airing in January, I am leading
Speaker 1: a time tracking challenge where hundreds of people are logging
Speaker 1: their time for a week. We are all trying to
Speaker 1: figure out where the time really goes so we can
Speaker 1: make wise decisions. If that sounds good to you, then
Speaker 1: feel free to join in. You just write down what
Speaker 1: you're doing as often as you remember, and keep going
Speaker 1: for a week. Then you can celebrate, reflect or change.
Speaker 1: When people first track their time, they are often surprised
Speaker 1: at just how vast a hundred sixty hours truly is.
Speaker 1: Many of us are accustomed to thinking primarily of work hours,
Speaker 1: or even just week day hours, and we fail to
Speaker 1: see all the time that exists. Of course, time isn't
Speaker 1: infinite either, and so on some level we are ultimately
Speaker 1: limited in how much time we can devote to anything.
Speaker 1: We also know that multitasking tends not to be terribly efficient.
Speaker 1: You could try to save time by answering your emails
Speaker 1: during that conference call, but one or the other is
Speaker 1: getting the short end of the sick. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you can't do two things at once. Indeed, you
Speaker 1: often can, and in many cases should. I realized this
Speaker 1: at one point in college when I was trying to
Speaker 1: land a campus job. I realized that some jobs would
Speaker 1: allow me to study at the same time I was working.
Speaker 1: Others didn't, So I wound up taking a job manning
Speaker 1: the information and security desk at the student center during
Speaker 1: off hours when a few information requests came up. If
Speaker 1: I would be studying from eight pm to midnight anyways,
Speaker 1: why not get paid for those hours too. No one
Speaker 1: is paying me by the hour these days. But there
Speaker 1: are lots of ways to do two things at once.
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, you are getting productivity tips from me, well,
Speaker 1: no doubt doing something else right. You can read while
Speaker 1: driving or exercising or doing chores by listening to audiobooks.
Speaker 1: You can deepen a relationship while doing errands by consciously
Speaker 1: bringing one person along with you a child, a partner,
Speaker 1: a friend. This turns something you need to do in
Speaker 1: to one on one quality time. You can also incorporate
Speaker 1: one other person into a leisure time activity, walking with
Speaker 1: a friend, doing a puzzle with a spouse or child,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. You can walk while listening to
Speaker 1: a conference call where you don't need to talk all
Speaker 1: that much. You can walk while conducting a meeting with
Speaker 1: one other person. This allows you to exercise and work simultaneously.
Speaker 1: Or if you are walking from one place to another,
Speaker 1: you can call a friend or family member. You can
Speaker 1: practice a talk while driving your car. The advice to
Speaker 1: never eat alone allows you to combine a necessary practice
Speaker 1: eating with networking that deepens time. You can even squeeze
Speaker 1: hobbies into little bits of time when you are theoretically
Speaker 1: doing something else as the major category of time. If
Speaker 1: you play an instrument, for instance, use the five minutes
Speaker 1: between phone calls to watch a YouTube video of someone
Speaker 1: else playing a piece. You are learning. Just like that,
Speaker 1: you have turned downtime into practice time and made more
Speaker 1: space in your busy life for your art. You are
Speaker 1: working and boosting your creative skills at the same time.
Speaker 1: How is that for making more of your hours? Now?
Speaker 1: Of course, we can get carried away with this there
Speaker 1: is no need to turn every single second into something
Speaker 1: uber industrious. But on the other hand, we only get
Speaker 1: so much time. If there is something you'd like to
Speaker 1: spend more time doing and you are having trouble finding
Speaker 1: space to do it, see if there is time to
Speaker 1: do it while doing something else, it can make time
Speaker 1: feel entirely different. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with
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