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 to let time do its job. In many cases,
Speaker 1: time is the secret ingredient in success, and time can
Speaker 1: help us do things that we couldn't do immediately on
Speaker 1: our own. Today's tip, like some others over the next
Speaker 1: few weeks, comes from my new book Big Time, a
Speaker 1: Simple Path to Time Abundance. This book, which is out
Speaker 1: May fifth, is about what happens when you truly believe
Speaker 1: time is big enough to accommodate what matters to you.
Speaker 1: With some smart strategies, it is possible to fall in
Speaker 1: love with your schedule. Big Time is about how to
Speaker 1: do just that. One of my favorite insights that I
Speaker 1: came across while writing Big Time is that patience is
Speaker 1: a superpower. When we keep putting time into things, time
Speaker 1: will help us accomplish things that seem impossible at the beginning.
Speaker 1: This is obvious in the natural world. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite children's books is Christmas Farm, which is about a
Speaker 1: little boy named Parker and his neighbor Wilma, and how
Speaker 1: they plant Christmas tree seedlings. They prune and water the
Speaker 1: trees for five years. As Parker grows and the trees
Speaker 1: grow too. The ingredients they need are sunshine, good earth, water,
Speaker 1: and time. It would be ridiculous to expect a tree
Speaker 1: to grow immediately, but give a tree five years and
Speaker 1: it goes from being small to big enough to fill
Speaker 1: a living room. So it goes with many things in life.
Speaker 1: When I first start learning a challenging piece for one
Speaker 1: of my choirs, it can seem impossible. Who can figure
Speaker 1: out all these rhythms and dissonant harmonies or what have you?
Speaker 1: And yet with practice, in time, I do figure it out,
Speaker 1: and those melodies burn their way into my brain until
Speaker 1: they seem completely obvious. Many people have trained for their
Speaker 1: first races with approachable programs like Couch to five K.
Speaker 1: That is indeed the promise of what can happen in
Speaker 1: three months. You won't go from sitting on the couch
Speaker 1: to running three point one miles immediately, but in twelve
Speaker 1: weeks a very high proportion of people can in fact
Speaker 1: train their bodies to go a lot farther than they
Speaker 1: have before. Time is the secret ingredient. Friendships are also
Speaker 1: built over time, spending relaxed time with someone repeatedly will
Speaker 1: make you closer and if you keep doing it, you
Speaker 1: can become great friends. But you can't do that overnight.
Speaker 1: Time is your friend in making friendships that last. So
Speaker 1: if there is something you would like to do in life,
Speaker 1: see if patience might be your superpower too. What can
Speaker 1: time do over time? If you write a little bit
Speaker 1: a day, you can write a book in a year
Speaker 1: or two. If you walk and run a little farther
Speaker 1: each day, you can run many miles in a year.
Speaker 1: If you study strategically for a few hours each week,
Speaker 1: you could take a big exam in a year or two.
Speaker 1: You can't do it immediately, but you can do it
Speaker 1: in time. Time will pass eventually, and if we keep
Speaker 1: moving forward, time is big enough to work with us,
Speaker 1: helping us do things that seemed out of reach before.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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