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Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. Our guest today is a speaker, author, podcaster. Laura Vanderkamp, my all-time favorite quote of last year was attributed to her, and I'll talk about that in a second. Her mission is to bring calm to the chaos and make time for what matters most. Laura, that's about the most perfect title for our audience I've ever had. Welcome to the show. Thanks for making time for us. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. I'm going to start, though, with this quote, which was instead of saying I don't have time, try saying it's not a priority and see how that feels. Instead of saying, I don't have time, try saying it's not a priority

and see how that feels. When you got into this world of time management, you know, that quote

kind of communicates that because it's priority management. How did you get into this whole space in the

first place? Yeah, I mean, I think I've always been interested in schedules and trying to get a lot

done. I can sort of trace that back through my life.

But you have to think about your time differently. And there's so many competing demands for our

time. And I sort of realized along the way, though, that when things are truly important to us,

we tend to make space for them. And I see this in people's schedules all the time. You know,

you could tell yourself, I don't have time for X, Y, or Z. And then there's some crisis. And suddenly

you have to make time for that crisis, whatever it happens to be. It's like, well, okay, so the time

didn't magically come. Like, you didn't get an extra hour in the day.

You didn't get an extra day in the week.

It's that when something became important to you, other things moved to the side.

And so the question is, well, how can we treat the things that are truly important to us with that level of urgency, right?

That they become this thing that we are dedicating ourselves to get to no matter what.

And, you know, some people have more things going on than others.

But I truly do believe that we can build the lives we want in the time that we have.

How do you get through this dynamic between a stated priority and actually a priority of the heart.

Yeah, no, I mean, there's a lot of treadmills with clothes hanging on them now.

Right. It turns out that they're a good place to store the laundry.

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