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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that if there is a decision you need to make, but you can't make it

at this moment, commit to a specific time in the future when you will make the decision.

In other words, decide when you'll decide. This means you won't forget, and you can hopefully stop ruminating about it

until then. So sometimes there are plans or decisions that have to be made, but something else

has to happen first before you can make your plans. For instance, maybe you would like to renovate your kitchen.

But you want to know for sure that you are getting that raise

before you sign a contract.

You know you'll need to rework your child care schedule

once the school year starts,

but you don't know when all your kids' activities will be.

So you don't know the exact hours you will need help. You need to know

whether your whole family will be traveling for all of Thanksgiving, or whether your spouse will be

home for some of the time, to know what days you're going to need pet care. Even if you are ready to make

plans, other people may not be. Inexplicably, some medical practices and specialties where you are ready to make plans, other people may not be. Inexplicably, some medical practices and

specialties where you are supposed to go annually don't let you make appointments more than six

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