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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to consolidate your time-specific meetings or appointments.

The more you can do this, the more open space you can have in the rest of your life,

which can allow you to focus more deeply on other things.

So here's a question. Let's say you were trying to place three hour-long meetings

into a workday. You get to pick the times. Where would you choose to put them? So I would probably

try to put them at 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, and 4 o'clock. If I was trying to build in a little

space in case one ran over, I might try to do 130, 2.30, and 4. But as much as possible, I would

try to put the meetings close together, and I would try to put them later in the day. That would

leave the entire morning open for working

on projects that couldn't be neatly chopped up into hour-long blocks. The reason I'd put the

meetings in the afternoon is that I tend to have a little less energy in the afternoon, but most

people do go to scheduled meetings, regardless of how they feel.

Most of us have a harder time doing more speculative, creative, or nebulous things when we are flagging.

But even if you put all the meetings in the morning, I would still recommend putting them all together.

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