Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that it is okay to be a
Speaker 1: little busier than you might want for a while. Many
Speaker 1: things were put on hold over the last year, and
Speaker 1: there are going to be some months of making up
Speaker 1: for lost time. It's okay things were slow for a
Speaker 1: while and busier now. Eventually they will settle down. There
Speaker 1: is no need to worry about phases looking a little different.
Speaker 1: Several years ago, I was talking with a woman who
Speaker 1: was just back at work after an extended maternity leave,
Speaker 1: well extended for America at least, we're talking eight months
Speaker 1: or so. Work was quite busy as she was getting
Speaker 1: back up to speed, and she worried that she was
Speaker 1: neglecting things at home. I noted that she was probably
Speaker 1: doing just fine, but more importantly, she had just had
Speaker 1: eight months of being completely at home, putting a lot
Speaker 1: of effort into things there. That was a phase. This
Speaker 1: current time was also a phase. They probably balanced each
Speaker 1: other out. She didn't need to view the current business
Speaker 1: at work as either the only metric on which to
Speaker 1: judge herself or as being permanent I am hearing similar
Speaker 1: worries from listeners and readers now about business as many
Speaker 1: parts of the world emerge from pandemic slowness. For a
Speaker 1: year or so, very few events happened. Now people are
Speaker 1: making up for lost time. That trip that got delayed
Speaker 1: a year, Well, the year is up. It's time to
Speaker 1: make it happy and if you don't want to lose
Speaker 1: your deposit. Two summers of weddings are pushed into one,
Speaker 1: plus people want to have get togethers again. It's easy
Speaker 1: to get overwhelmed, but it is also important to remember
Speaker 1: that this likely isn't permanent. Each future summer will feature
Speaker 1: only one summer's worth of weddings. Once those trips are taken,
Speaker 1: they'll be taken. They'll be in the past, so why
Speaker 1: not enjoy them now, even if getting away feels a
Speaker 1: little hard. More importantly, we had a long time of
Speaker 1: being not so busy. That can be followed with a
Speaker 1: time of being a little more busy without everything falling apart.
Speaker 1: On the whole. It all balances each other out. In general,
Speaker 1: we are better off viewing time through a larger lens.
Speaker 1: People get upset about not getting to everything they want
Speaker 1: to do in life. On any given day, but we
Speaker 1: don't live our lives in days. I maintain that anything
Speaker 1: you do three times a week or so is a habit.
Speaker 1: Viewing our lives in terms of weeks or maybe even
Speaker 1: months or years allows us to see how much space
Speaker 1: there is. So don't fret if you feel a little
Speaker 1: busy now. In a few months, much of this will
Speaker 1: settle down and you'll be able to figure out a
Speaker 1: new balance that works for you and your work situation
Speaker 1: and your family. The extra activities now no more defined
Speaker 1: life than the lack of them over the last year.
Speaker 1: To find life. The last thing you want to do
Speaker 1: is cancel things that you really want to do because
Speaker 1: of some perceived worry about how busy things are. Instead,
Speaker 1: if you want to do them, find a way to
Speaker 1: do them. You had a lot of fellow time in
Speaker 1: the past, and you will have more in the future.
Speaker 1: This is just transition, and it is okay to be
Speaker 1: a little busy during that. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.
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