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Before Breakfast

Avoid the 2 p.m. slump

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Get more done in less time with Laura’s tips for making it through everyone’s least favorite time of the afternoon.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the greatest murder mystery in American history.

0:05.6

That's Rob Briner.

0:07.6

Rob called me, Soledette O'Brien, and asked me what I knew about this crime.

0:11.6

Well, ask, who had the motive to assassinate a sitting president.

0:16.0

Then we'll pull the curtain back on the cover-up.

0:20.0

The American people need to know the truth.

0:22.0

Listen to who the truth.

0:22.6

Listen to who killed JFK on the I Heart Radio app,

0:27.0

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.8

Good morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's

0:37.8

tip is about how to avoid the 2 p.m. Slump. Over years of studying people's schedules

0:45.0

have come to see that managing time

0:47.0

is often about managing energy.

0:49.0

We feel differently at different times of the day. We feel differently based on what we've been doing. That in turn affects what we can

0:58.2

get done. This seems obvious, but it is so easy to forget this.

1:03.6

You know that a car can't run indefinitely if you don't fill it up with gas, yet people don't

1:08.2

pay attention to their own metaphorical gas tanks.

1:11.4

They'll say, look at me, I'm so productive, I'm working through lunch, I'm getting

1:14.8

out of here on time today. Then a funny thing happens around 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock in the

1:20.0

afternoon. You start reading the same emails over and over again.

1:24.4

Then your phone sends you an alert.

1:26.6

Oh look!

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