I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record

hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.

The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.

Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts.

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 do a meeting audit.

Study your calendar to figure out exactly what time commitments you have.

Then you can decide if that is the right way to be spending your time or not.

I know that before breakfast listeners do a great many things with their lives.

However, I know from listener notes that among the people with more traditional careers,

big chunks of the workday can be spent in meetings.

Sometimes it feels like too much time is spent in meetings.

It's important to figure out what this time looks like so everyone can make wise choices.

Meetings exist for a reason.

We need to work with other people.

It is unlikely that those people are going to randomly show up in our offices or on Zoom

at precisely the time when we want to speak with them.

It is also unlikely that they are going to be randomly prepared to talk about the subject

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