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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 to just make that phone call.

Particularly if you are working at home these days,

you can save yourself all sorts of time and frustration and

schedule clutter by using the actual telephone feature on your phone. As a

bonus as we're all engaged in social distancing, hearing a human voice can be a real mood boost too.

Once upon a time, the only convenient way to communicate with someone who wasn't right in front of you was to call that person on the phone.

Now there were downsides to this. A ringing phone interrupts whatever the other person is doing

right at the time you've chosen, whether this is convenient for the other person or not.

So asynchronous forms of communication seems like great solutions to this problem.

As email and texts became available,

phone calls fell out of favor.

Indeed, many people think it might be rude or presumptuous

to call someone without explicit permission, like you've sent a calendar invite to talk at 2 PM.

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