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I'm Catherine Nikolai and I'm an architect of Cozy.

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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.

Today's tip is to plan your check-in times.

If you have set any sort of annual goals,

or if life looks different in different seasons for you.

You want to set sometimes during the year to check in on how things are going

and to plan the next season. Setting those times now early in the year

increases the chances that they happen.

So plenty of people set annual goals

and plenty of people plan their days or weeks.

But a lot of life happens in chunks that are between those sizes.

Sarah Hart Unger, my co-host on the Best of Both Worlds Podcast, thinks of her year in Quintiles.

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