Know when you won't get much done

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Acknowledge unproductive stretches, so expectations match reality.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Essie Cup, and I've spent my career interviewing people about politics, presidential elections, and some really tough breaking news.
0:08.5	But now I need a break, and I think you do too.
0:11.5	So on my new podcast, Off the Cup,
0:14.0	I'll still be interviewing people,
0:16.0	usually famous and most likely my friends.
0:18.0	But about life, you know, the stuff that consumes us
0:21.0	when we're not consumed by politics?
0:24.0	So come join me every Wednesday for some conversational self-care.
0:27.6	Listen to Off the Cup on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite
0:32.0	shows.
0:42.1	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I-Heart Radio.
0:45.0	Good morning.
0:47.0	This is Laura.
0:50.0	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:57.8	Today's tip is to know and acknowledge stretches of time when you will not be getting much done. You can plan your life more rationally when your expectations match reality.
1:08.0	Today's tip comes from the podcast Best Laid Plans,
1:11.8	which is hosted by Sarah Hart Unger, my co-host on my other podcast, Best of
1:17.0	Both Worlds.
1:19.1	On a recent episode, Sarah read a note from a listener that described how she divided the year.
1:25.0	She thought of the year in five quintiles, and one of those quintiles went from Thanksgiving
1:31.0	to the end of her children's holiday break.
1:35.0	Now if you do the math, that is not going to be a very long quintile.
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