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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to make your minutes matter.

Use time you would otherwise be wasting to do something you actually need to do at some

point.

So your best time is available for your most important pursuits.

Everybody has moments of running behind, when everything takes longer than you reasonably expected.

But from time to time, we also all have moments when we are ahead of schedule.

Maybe you need to leave home at 8.30 for an appointment, but you are ready to go

at 8.10. At times like that, it's easy to wander around the house tidying. But what if, instead,

use that 20 minutes to batch the little things. Hopefully, as someone who listens to this podcast,

you have a running list of tasks you know you need to get to at some point.

Generally, you set aside a chunk of time to do all of these.

But when a low-opportunity-cost chunk of time presents itself, and you know you won't be able to use this time for other

things. This is a great occasion to plow through them. In 20 minutes, you could fill out that

permission slip, order that birthday present, respond to those two meeting invites for next week,

and book a doctor visit through the online portal, and hopefully still be out the door at 825 to give yourself a little

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