Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to plan your time.

So you get the most out of it.

Intentions mean that time doesn't let her away.

Slipping out of our grasp.

So people often quote Annie Dillard's line from her book The Writing Life

that how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.

It's such a good reminder to make sure that how we use our time

accords with what we want for our lives.

But that is not the only Annie Dillard quote worth noting.

She goes on to describe a schedule as a net for catching days.

Perhaps we could envision this net as looking like a butterfly net.

Because time, like a butterfly, will flit away from our grasp

if we are not strategic about it.

Time moves regardless.

Intentions allow us some control.

So we don't just passively watch time.

Flit on by.

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