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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 about how to do a weekend to

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Speaker 1: do list. Well, we all want to relax on weekends,

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Speaker 1: but if you have things that need to get done,

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Speaker 1: there are certain strategies that can help you accomplish what

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Speaker 1: you need to without your feeling like the weekend has

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Speaker 1: just disappeared and to have to do stuff. So, if

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Speaker 1: you are like me, your weekends probably don't feature a

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Speaker 1: ton of open space that you can use for whatever

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Speaker 1: you desire. Your kids have activities, and plus they need

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Speaker 1: to be fed and cared for. Even if we are

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Speaker 1: all just sitting around the house, someone has to be

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Speaker 1: with the toddler constantly. Accomplishing anything beyond basic life maintenance

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Speaker 1: is doable, but it's challenging. That can be an issue

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Speaker 1: because inevitably there are things beyond basic life maintenance that

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Speaker 1: do need to be accomplished over the weekend. Maybe some

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Speaker 1: task or errand didn't happen during the week, some periodic

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Speaker 1: chore like getting the kid's haircut needs to happen, or

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Speaker 1: maybe it's an ongoing house project. In my case, I

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Speaker 1: am trying to empty out the boxes in the guest

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Speaker 1: bedroom so we actually have a usable guest bedroom. Often

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Speaker 1: these projects can take any amount of time. We give

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Speaker 1: them productive sorts. Know to make to do lists for

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Speaker 1: the week, so we make to do lists for the

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Speaker 1: weekend too. But sure enough people commit the same to

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Speaker 1: do list sins for the weekend to do lists that

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Speaker 1: they do on the workday ones The first sin the

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Speaker 1: list is overly ambitious. You will not get through a

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Speaker 1: six month backlog of home projects this weekend or next

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Speaker 1: weekend too. Have you seen how much else is going on?

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Speaker 1: Do you think you are going to stumble upon some

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Speaker 1: magical well of superhuman energy. You cannot unpack the whole

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Speaker 1: guest room and weed the flower bed and plant a

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Speaker 1: dozen roses, and fill out all the camp forms and

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Speaker 1: read through your employee review files and bake banana bread

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Speaker 1: with those bananas that are going bad all before Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: When we make lengthy to do lists, we don't get

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Speaker 1: through everything on the list. For a to do list

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Speaker 1: to work, it needs to be a contract with yourself.

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Speaker 1: You are only putting something on the list because you

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Speaker 1: actively play in to do it. You plan to do

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Speaker 1: it even with everything else that is going on and

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Speaker 1: everything else that might come up. That means the list

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Speaker 1: needs to be short. The second to do list sin

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Speaker 1: is vagueness. To do lists need to be specific, what

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Speaker 1: camp forms, which employee review files, how much of the

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Speaker 1: guest room are we talking A doable weekend to do

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Speaker 1: list might include unpacking two boxes in the guest room,

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Speaker 1: making that banana bread, and reviewing one employee file because

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Speaker 1: you are meeting with that person on Tuesday and you

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Speaker 1: can see that Monday is going to be swamped. Everything

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Speaker 1: else is going to have to happen at some other time,

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Speaker 1: or maybe it won't happen. Now. That might sound like

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Speaker 1: giving up, but I think it is more are discouraging

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Speaker 1: to put twenty items on the list and then not

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Speaker 1: feel like you've done anything, even if you have done

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Speaker 1: a reasonable number of them. If you put three specific

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Speaker 1: things on the list, the two boxes, the banana bread,

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Speaker 1: and one file, you will probably do them. Then you

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Speaker 1: will feel like you are moving forward. You will feel accomplished.

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Speaker 1: And when you have done those things, or have identified

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Speaker 1: times when you will do those things, then you can

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Speaker 1: let yourself off the hook for the rest of the time.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to feel bad when you are watching

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Speaker 1: your toddler that you aren't reading the rest of the

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Speaker 1: employee files. Now, you won't feel relaxed, because watching a

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Speaker 1: toddler usually isn't relaxing, but you won't feel like you

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Speaker 1: should be doing something else, which tends to be the

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Speaker 1: major source of weekend stress. In the meantime. This is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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

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