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Good morning. This is Laura.

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Today's tip is to make space for possibility conversations.

Even if you are very busy, and even if you have a lot of people seeking you out,

it is worth making some space in your schedule for new things. After all, new things are where the

breakthroughs really come. In my new book, Big Time, I talk about the idea of being

thoughtfully accessible. A lot of productivity literature is about saying no to more things, and there's something to that.

But we also want to say some strategic yeses as well.

If you knew about something great, you would already be doing it.

It's saying yes to things that we don't know about that allows new opportunities, relationships, and adventures to come into our lives.

So how do we strike the right balance?

This is particularly challenging for people who are in positions of power, or who have the

ability to do big things for people. After all, there are a lot of demanding people, and a lot of

bad ideas in this world. How can you have good boundaries, and also leave open the possibility that a good idea will make its way to you?

One option I like is to make space in your schedule for possibility conversations.

The idea is that you carve out a set amount of time each week, or so for

conversations where you don't know exactly where things will lead, or to talk with new people

that you think might be worth getting to know better. So, for instance, he might decide that

in general you will have these conversations on Friday mornings.

Perhaps he might even set a rough time frame.

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