Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of my Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to be careful not to worry about
Speaker 1: stuff that is too far in the future. Long time
Speaker 1: Before Breakfast listeners know that I am a planner. I
Speaker 1: think about what I'd like to do in the future
Speaker 1: in my professional and personal life. I figure out the
Speaker 1: steps to get there. I figure out where these steps
Speaker 1: can go, and I think through what can go wrong
Speaker 1: and how I can solve these problems. Now, this has
Speaker 1: its upsides. Because I think about what can go wrong
Speaker 1: and I make plans for dealing with these problems. The
Speaker 1: logistics of my life tend to go reasonably well, even
Speaker 1: with a lot of moving parts. However, there is a
Speaker 1: downside to this personality. When I identify a problem, some
Speaker 1: part of my brain keeps working at a solution should
Speaker 1: even if the problem is far in the future and
Speaker 1: I have no idea what day to day's circumstances might
Speaker 1: look like. Then, if you're listening to this podcast, perhaps
Speaker 1: your personality is a bit like mine. The problem is
Speaker 1: that we can wind up putting a lot of time
Speaker 1: and mental effort into pondering these problems and figuring out solutions. Often,
Speaker 1: this time and mental effort would have been better devoted
Speaker 1: to other things, like pondering new business ideas. Time I
Speaker 1: spend figuring out a childcare issue in June, it's time
Speaker 1: I'm not working on my next book proposal. So what
Speaker 1: can we do? It's hard not to get ahead of ourselves,
Speaker 1: but I've been doing a few practical things. First, when
Speaker 1: my husband and I have calendar meetings to talk about
Speaker 1: day to day logistics, we only look about two weeks
Speaker 1: ahead for most normal stuff. We do not need to
Speaker 1: figure out who is picking somebody up on a Friday
Speaker 1: three weeks from now. This just these meetings ponderous, and
Speaker 1: all of our schedules may be different by that point. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm also trying to reframe things to look at the
Speaker 1: amount of time the current schedule will work. Yes, something
Speaker 1: might need to change in May, but that means that
Speaker 1: nothing needs to change until May. That's a lot of
Speaker 1: time I can do a lot in those intervening months.
Speaker 1: Best to celebrate this continuity, which is more rare in
Speaker 1: life than we might think. And finally, many things don't
Speaker 1: require a universal solution. Now I might like to figure
Speaker 1: out the best way to deal with transportation for my
Speaker 1: middle schoolers early morning choir rehearsals, But there is no
Speaker 1: solution that works for every single one In the moment.
Speaker 1: It's usually not that big a deal to drive the
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes around trip. If there's more than one adult
Speaker 1: at home, the little kids don't have to come. If
Speaker 1: there isn't, they do, so it goes. I don't need
Speaker 1: to get ahead of myself. Do you have a tendency
Speaker 1: to look far far ahead? Let me know at Before
Speaker 1: Breakfast podcast at i heeart media dot com. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
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