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Before Breakfast

Make some time a specific time

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Get it on the calendar to get it done

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0:00.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.

0:09.2

Good morning.

0:11.0

This is Laura.

0:13.2

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:16.4

Today's tip is that if there is something you want to do, don't just intend to do it

0:23.4

some time.

0:25.6

Get it on the calendar for a specific time.

0:29.9

That way, you will make sure it actually happens.

0:36.0

If you're like a lot of people I hear from, you probably have museums or restaurants or

0:41.6

hiking trails in your town that you have been meaning to go to for ages and you just haven't.

0:49.8

Or maybe you have an old friend who lives just a few hours away and you keep meaning to

0:54.5

go see her for a weekend.

0:57.1

And here are the years are, ticking by.

1:01.6

Call it the paradox of availability.

1:04.9

When we could go to a museum or a hiking trail or a nearby friend's home anytime, we don't

1:12.0

schedule the experience.

1:14.7

We figure we'll do it some time.

1:17.7

If that museum 15 minutes from your house is open from 10 to 5 every Tuesday through Saturday,

1:24.3

why would you possibly need to put it on your calendar?

1:28.5

Here's why.

1:29.8

If it's on your calendar, you will go.

1:33.7

You, like many busy people, probably live by your calendar.

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