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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.

Yesterday, I encouraged you to make time for delight,

to pause and notice anything unexpected or beautiful.

In a similar vein, today's tip is to make time for connection.

No matter how busy you feel, you do have time to engage meaningfully with the people around you,

both in person and virtually. In the long run, moments like these probably matter more than many other demands that feel urgent.

People, it turns out, are a good use of time.

I keep track of my time, I have for five years now,

and so I know exactly how I spend my hours.

When I first pulled together this episode it was February and I'd been noticing how long

my weekday mornings had become. With kids in three different schools plus an infant

everyone was on a different schedule. I would be up early feeding the baby.

Then I'd have my coffee while the middle schooler was eating breakfast so he could head off to his early morning choir practice,

with my husband usually driving him.

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