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 there is never a perfect time. Sometimes
Speaker 1: people push things forward or decide they can't do something
Speaker 1: because life is just so hectic right now, But it
Speaker 1: won't be less hectic anytime in the near future. If
Speaker 1: there is something you want to do, you are going
Speaker 1: to have to do it in the middle of everything else,
Speaker 1: not when everything else calms down. So I was recently
Speaker 1: part of a group that was trying to figure out
Speaker 1: when to schedule something. Summer was out because people were
Speaker 1: gone on vacations, then much of September was out because
Speaker 1: of back to school craziness. Perhaps there was one week
Speaker 1: or two in September or October that was going to
Speaker 1: be good, though it wasn't clear as people mentioned various
Speaker 1: sports schedules, and then soon after that it would be
Speaker 1: the holidays, and well, we couldn't really schedule things during
Speaker 1: the holidays, could we. I had to laugh about the
Speaker 1: whole process. There is no perfect time. There is never
Speaker 1: a moment when nothing out of the ordinary is going on.
Speaker 1: I see this delusion all the time when people keep
Speaker 1: time logs. When people say they want to spend their
Speaker 1: time better, I suggest figuring out where the time is
Speaker 1: going now. The best way to do that is to
Speaker 1: track your time for a week. So people start but
Speaker 1: then stop or figure they can't start for a few
Speaker 1: weeks because next week is crazy for X, y or
Speaker 1: z reason. They want to track a week that shows
Speaker 1: life in a certain way, just as people are hunting
Speaker 1: on the calendar for a time when there is nothing
Speaker 1: else going on. But there are no typical weeks or
Speaker 1: perfect times to schedule anything now. I know full well
Speaker 1: that sometimes people use various bits of busyness as an
Speaker 1: excuse if someone doesn't want to do something, that results
Speaker 1: in those vague statements of oh, well, you know, September
Speaker 1: is so busy. I guess we're going to have to
Speaker 1: look forward a little bit. So here's a little pro tip.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to do something now, you are
Speaker 1: never going to want to do it. There is no
Speaker 1: point in suggesting people look to the future to schedule
Speaker 1: a time when you are less busy. Just give your
Speaker 1: kind regards and move on. But the reverse is also true,
Speaker 1: which is that if you do want to do something,
Speaker 1: there is not really going to be a better time
Speaker 1: in some magical future. You can hunt for a new
Speaker 1: job during the summer, or during the back to school craziness,
Speaker 1: or during the holidays, and if you want a new job,
Speaker 1: you may as well do just that. Yes, you can
Speaker 1: go back to school while your kids are in school
Speaker 1: if you want to start piano lessons. There is no
Speaker 1: point waiting until your kid's football season is over, because
Speaker 1: there will be something else filling the time after that.
Speaker 1: There is no perfect time. Now. That doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: should schedule that big work meeting on December twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: but it does mean that anything new has to come
Speaker 1: in the middle of everything else. Better to just accept
Speaker 1: that and start moving forward. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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