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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to say no for a while. Taking something

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Speaker 1: off your plate for a little bit can be a

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Speaker 1: temporary step to chucking it for good. We're seeing if

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Speaker 1: you'd like to keep doing it after all. Today's tip,

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Speaker 1: like some others this week, comes from Laura May Martin's

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Speaker 1: new book Up Time. Martin is Google's productivity guru, coaching

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Speaker 1: executives there on how to be more efficient with their schedules.

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Speaker 1: Martin notes that there is much to the common productivity

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Speaker 1: advice to say no more often, But if you work

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Speaker 1: in a big corporate environment where you need to be

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Speaker 1: seen as a team player, he might want to shape

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Speaker 1: that now in a way that keeps your relationship strong.

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Speaker 1: So how might you do that? One approach is to

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Speaker 1: say no for a little while. In her book, Martin

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Speaker 1: says that when people want to make a change to

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Speaker 1: their schedule, sometimes they are hesitant. What if I move

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Speaker 1: John from weekly to monthly and then it feels like

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Speaker 1: we're not meeting frequently enough. Martin writes that these changes

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Speaker 1: to your schedule do not have to be permanent. Try

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Speaker 1: a three month trial period. If you drop off a

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Speaker 1: committee but miss it, sign back up. If you and

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Speaker 1: John do email all the time because you aren't meeting enough,

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Speaker 1: meet more often. If you never test your assumptions, she writes,

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Speaker 1: you may never know the right link for recurrence of

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Speaker 1: a meeting. The key is coming up with some reason

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Speaker 1: to start a change. But as we've talked about in

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Speaker 1: recent Before Breakfast episodes, life can feature a lot of transitions,

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Speaker 1: So just pick one. Maybe you are staffed on something

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Speaker 1: big and new, so you tell another team that a

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Speaker 1: deputy will be taking over that team status meeting for

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Speaker 1: the next month while you get the new thing going.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like you are abandoning the project, but

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Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe your deputy will do an awesome job

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Speaker 1: now that project is running without your constant active input.

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Speaker 1: That is generally a good thing. No can feel hard

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Speaker 1: to say, but it is sometimes easier to say no

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Speaker 1: for a little while. Then that no can revert to

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Speaker 1: a yes, or it can become a permanent no, but

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Speaker 1: it will give you a little space to think about

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Speaker 1: it so you can make the right choice for yours

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Speaker 1: and for other schedules in the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've

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Speaker 1: got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at

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Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a

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