WEBVTT - All the time in the world 

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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 to try telling yourself that you have

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<v Speaker 1>all the time in the world. It might not be

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<v Speaker 1>literally true, but believing it can help us savor good

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<v Speaker 1>moments and be more patient with things that move at

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<v Speaker 1>a leisurely pace. When the pandemic began, many families lives

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<v Speaker 1>went from hyper scheduled to nothing basically overnight. Suddenly there

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<v Speaker 1>were no other options, and so people began to do

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<v Speaker 1>all sorts of time filling things like complicated lego projects,

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<v Speaker 1>thousand piece puzzles, baking extravaganzas, or reading long chapter books

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<v Speaker 1>with their kids. Now to me, the interesting thing about

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<v Speaker 1>all this is that these activities were probably possible before

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<v Speaker 1>the pandemic too. Even the most complicated lego projects max

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<v Speaker 1>out at twenty hours or so, same with puzzles. Reading

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<v Speaker 1>twenty minutes a night of short books versus thirty minutes

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<v Speaker 1>of parts of longer ones really isn't that big a difference.

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<v Speaker 1>But because people had more options, they felt like they

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<v Speaker 1>were too busy to do these things. And when we

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<v Speaker 1>feel like we are too busy, we don't think about

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<v Speaker 1>what we'd like to do with our time, so we

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<v Speaker 1>choose the things that are most effortless, like scrolling through

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<v Speaker 1>social media. So rather than devote twenty hours to a

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<v Speaker 1>lego project, we devote twenty hours to social media. Over

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<v Speaker 1>the course of two weeks. The time is the same,

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<v Speaker 1>but the feeling of scarcity changes choices. Things are definitely

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<v Speaker 1>starting back up now, Thank goodness. I don't have any

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<v Speaker 1>illusion that people will learn big lessons from lockdowns in life.

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<v Speaker 1>People often claim that everything has changed, but generally everything

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't change. But if people would like to make better

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<v Speaker 1>choices with leisure time in general, it helps to ask

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<v Speaker 1>this question, what would I do if I had all

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<v Speaker 1>the time in the world. When we feel busy, we

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<v Speaker 1>limit our choices. When we view time as abundant, we

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<v Speaker 1>stop setting those arbitrary limits. It might take forty hours

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<v Speaker 1>to read War and Peace, but we will spend forty

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<v Speaker 1>hours on something one way or another. It takes a

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<v Speaker 1>while to read through the Chronicles of Narnia, but that

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<v Speaker 1>time will pass anyway. It will be spent on something.

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<v Speaker 1>The question is just what. So you might try looking

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<v Speaker 1>at your time through this lens. If I didn't feel

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<v Speaker 1>like I had a million other things to do. What

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<v Speaker 1>would I do? And when you think about this, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>you'll see that you can make time even for things

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<v Speaker 1>that don't seem like they would fit any busy person's life.

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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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