409: Keys to Using Awkward Pauses
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Learning to identify and use Awkward Pauses is so essential to making real change in your home. Knowing what to do in small amounts of time that will achieve real progress is key.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a slob comes clean the podcast. I am Dana K White. I share my personal |
| 0:04.9 | deslavification process as I figure out ways to keep my own home under |
| 0:09.2 | control. I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life for real people. |
| 0:15.0 | People who don't love cleaning and organizing. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 309 and I'm calling it, what was I going to call it, keys to using awkward pauses. |
| 0:31.1 | So we're talking about awkward pauses today. We've talked about awkward pauses. It's |
| 0:36.8 | one of my strategies is looking for the awkward pauses in your day to get things done. |
| 0:45.9 | But I'm not just gonna leave it at that |
| 0:47.6 | and I never have just left it at that |
| 0:49.4 | because that sounds an awful lot |
| 0:52.4 | like some advice that I had been given many times that didn't make any sense to me. |
| 0:57.1 | People would say things like, oh, you know, just every time you do this also do this and I was like what who who thinks that way and I didn't think that way so |
| 1:10.0 | I'm gonna go into this what I mean when I say awkward pauses is those moments in your day where it feels like |
| 1:17.8 | I don't have anything to do right this second, but I'm gonna have something to do in about two and a half minutes. |
| 1:25.0 | There's lots to be done, but this isn't enough time to get it all done. |
| 1:31.0 | Examples would be in that moment when you've dropped one kid off at school or at a practice and you run back home to get the other one, assuming they're old enough to be home with themselves, right? But I'm running home to get the other one assuming they're old enough to be home with themselves right but I'm running home to get this one to go do such and such or I |
| 1:48.4 | picked up you know my kid at this well whatever, you know what the awkward pauses are, right? |
| 1:55.4 | Like they're just those moments in your day where you're like, yeah, technically I have a moment. |
| 2:01.3 | It's not enough time to actually do anything. I had to realize that those awkward |
| 2:06.8 | pauses are actually very valuable once I understood what needed to be done. Hello everybody my name is |
| 2:24.7 | my name is Jacob Collier and I just wanted to quickly let you know that my |
| 2:27.4 | brand new album Jesse volume four is out now Now. Okay, so today we're going to be about. |
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