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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is about why and how you should build reflective time into your schedule.

I define reflective time as consciously chosen moments

when you pause and think about your life. You think about what you've done with your

time and what you'd like to do with your time.

And sure, people wind up ruminating unintentionally,

those moments at 2 a.m.

when your thoughts are spinning about something regretted or dreaded.

But I'm talking about something more intentional,

which generally involves planning,

journaling, or for those with the more spiritual bent, meditating or praying.

In my research, I found that choosing to carve out these moments

is associated with feeling like you have more time.

For my book off the clock, I had 900 busy people track their time for a day.

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