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 to stop rolling things over from one week to the next.

Either do it or be done with it for good. I know a lot of before breakfast

listeners make weekly priority lists. This is smart, but many people soon notice something.

As one listener recently wrote in, I find that I am transferring some of the same priorities

over week to week and never doing them, even though

I feel very busy.

This listener wondered if perhaps this was her indirect way of telling herself, that these things weren't her real priorities.

I think she's made a good insight here.

Plenty of things sound smart in theory. If we had infinite time and infinite energy, sure,

we'd tackle them. We'd also probably get to them if something suddenly made them rise up the priority list.

If someone said she'd give you $100,000

as soon as you finished that book proposal?

Well, I am guessing that you'd get to it.

Absent that, when I am guessing that you'd get to it.

Absent that, when we keep rolling stuff over week to week, the most likely explanation

is that we don't really want to do them. And if it isn't something like, say, your taxes that do in fact have to happen,

that's fine.

Expectations are infinite. Time is finite. We are always choosing. So all we can

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