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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of my 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 send a reminder to future you

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Speaker 1: when there is something you'd like to remember in the future.

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Speaker 1: Don't just trust that you'll remember. Write a note that

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Speaker 1: you know you will see, and you increase the chances

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Speaker 1: of being able to take action. So I use a

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Speaker 1: little paper calendar in addition to my planner. It's where

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Speaker 1: I jot down anything time specific that's coming up. I

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Speaker 1: keep it open on my desk and look through upcoming

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Speaker 1: weeks when I am planning, which I always do on Fridays.

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Speaker 1: I buy a new calendar each fall as I start

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Speaker 1: to get time specific commitments for the upcoming year. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: as I was recently paging through the next few weeks,

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Speaker 1: I noticed something curious a post it note on a

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Speaker 1: mid November week This post it note had a list

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Speaker 1: of children's book titles. It turns out that last Christmas

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Speaker 1: I had asked my blog readers for suggestions of good

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Speaker 1: kids holiday titles. I wasn't really in a mood to

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Speaker 1: read more of those in late December, but I knew

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Speaker 1: that come the following November, I'd be looking for some

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Speaker 1: new titles to round out our holiday collection. So I

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Speaker 1: wrote the titles that looked most promising on a post

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Speaker 1: it note and put it on a November week, trusting

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Speaker 1: that future me would see it, and sure enough I did. Now, Viously,

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Speaker 1: a post it note isn't exactly a high tech or

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Speaker 1: fool proof solution, but this was a pretty low stakes matter.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to do my future self a favor

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Speaker 1: and give her an answer to the question of, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if there are any good holiday children's books

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Speaker 1: I should check out this year. My past self wrote

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Speaker 1: that note, and now my current self can act on it.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you can think of various scenarios where it

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Speaker 1: might be helpful to send a note to your future self.

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Speaker 1: Maybe a friend mentions a great restaurant she tried in

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Speaker 1: a nearby town. You know you're going to be there

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Speaker 1: on a business trip in March. Put a note in

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Speaker 1: your calendar for March with the name of that restaurant.

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Speaker 1: You've done your future self the favor of figuring out

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Speaker 1: where to eat while you're there. Or maybe you see

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Speaker 1: an award that you'd like to apply for the reason

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Speaker 1: you are seeing the award is that it was just awarded,

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Speaker 1: meaning that they won't be awarding it again for another year.

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Speaker 1: But that's fine. You can send a note to future

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Speaker 1: you a few months before the ceremony to check in

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Speaker 1: on whether this is something you are still interested in doing.

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Speaker 1: If so, awesome, you can get going on the application.

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Speaker 1: If not, that's fine too. But you won't miss the

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Speaker 1: deadline because you forgot about it. You'll see the note

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Speaker 1: and you'll need to make an active choice when it

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Speaker 1: comes to time. I honestly believe that this ability to

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Speaker 1: communicate with our future selves is a superpower. It's a

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Speaker 1: superpower that any of us can use, and yet it

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Speaker 1: is amazing to me how few people do it regularly.

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Speaker 1: You probably will do the stuff you have to do,

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Speaker 1: those big, glaring things in life. These reminders to our

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Speaker 1: future selves are about the nice to do stuff, those

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Speaker 1: things that make life better but are easily lost in

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Speaker 1: the clutter. Sending a note to your future self on

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Speaker 1: whatever calendar or planner you use allows you to capture

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Speaker 1: these ideas. So the next time you think of something

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Speaker 1: that it would be great to do in the future,

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Speaker 1: don't just let that thought slide. Send a reminder to

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Speaker 1: future you for a time when future you can make

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Speaker 1: an active decision with that information. Then relax and feel

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Speaker 1: happy because you know that you've just increased the chances

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Speaker 1: of good things happening in the future. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's making the

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Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear

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