Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that if you have recurring appointments, do yourself
Speaker 1: a favor and check if you'll need to reschedule any
Speaker 1: future ones. If you do this during your current appointment,
Speaker 1: you will save yourself some time and hassle and potentially
Speaker 1: money for places with late cancelation fees. So in general,
Speaker 1: recurring appointments are a wonderful idea. There is no reason
Speaker 1: to discuss when you will meet with your trainer each
Speaker 1: week or when your cleaning service comes. Likewise, setting up
Speaker 1: a regular Saturday morning run with a friend makes it
Speaker 1: a lot easier to see your friend and get some exercise.
Speaker 1: When things always happen at the same time, you don't
Speaker 1: waste time finding a mutually convenient time, because everybody reserves
Speaker 1: the time in advance. The one trick with recurring appointments, though,
Speaker 1: is that sometimes you need to reschedule them. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this recently because our cleaning service comes every Thursday,
Speaker 1: but I realized we wouldn't need them while we were
Speaker 1: at the beach, so I used the occasion of them
Speaker 1: being there on a Thursday morning to remind myself to
Speaker 1: cancel those two visits when we would be out of town.
Speaker 1: If you have a monthly meeting with a client every
Speaker 1: fourth Thursday at eleven o'clock if you are in the
Speaker 1: United States, you will almost certainly need to reschedule the
Speaker 1: November meeting because it's going to fall on Thanksgiving. Maybe
Speaker 1: a standing appointment with a direct report or a recurring
Speaker 1: FaceTime lunch with a friend falls on a day you'll
Speaker 1: be at a conference, you will need to adjust. I
Speaker 1: find it helpful to use the occasion of the recurring
Speaker 1: appointment to nudge my brain to look ahead to the
Speaker 1: next one or two. The further ahead you look, the
Speaker 1: easier it will be to reschedule if you need to.
Speaker 1: And since the appointment is happening right then you will
Speaker 1: likely be with the people who could make a rescheduling happen.
Speaker 1: This is far more efficient than trying to reschedule over
Speaker 1: email or texts later. Of course, if something does happen
Speaker 1: frequently enough, I think it's generally best to cancel an
Speaker 1: occasion rather than reschedule it. If you are off for
Speaker 1: a work holiday, just pick things up the next time.
Speaker 1: I didn't need to have my house cleaned three times
Speaker 1: in a week when I got home from two weeks
Speaker 1: at the beach. Most people don't mind a little extra
Speaker 1: time in their calendars if they are given advance notice,
Speaker 1: But do give people notice. You probably know if you
Speaker 1: are on vacation to tuesdays from now, so why wait
Speaker 1: until a day before to let people know that check
Speaker 1: if you will need to reschedule or cancel, and you
Speaker 1: will make life a little easier for everyone in the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
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