Welcome in to this week's real conversations.

Jason Perman Ben Craddick here with you recording Friday morning just after 10 o'clock.

Busy day, busy weekend.

I'm going to get to see Benjamin tomorrow.

We're going to break some bread after the Limeria book, not book celebration, store

celebration, 50th anniversary for John Edwins and Lomeria books down in Jackson.

Excited to go down for that.

We're going to hit on some different topics about how you use your time today.

So we're going to do a little shorter to show today. So just be aware of that. We'll make it up to you. We'll take care of you in the future. But that's kind of the heart of the matter for today's program. A show that is brought to you in part by C-Spire with C-Spire. It's easier than ever to get all the devices you want in one move with the Ultimate Connect Bundle right now, new and current customers.

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setup, realtree.com for that. Ben, a lot to get to today. I know you're kind of busy as well.

You got a lot going on. You got a got life happening a

little bit. But, you know, I was telling you before the show started that we're going to get to a tougher topic in a minute. But I'm glad that I chose this week. Because look, there's been times in the past that I would have just been lazy. And I'll be honest, I just been lazy. And I don't want to do anything. I'm just going to chill because there's nothing I you know there's there's things that you need to do and you know

will benefit you but they don't go all the way up to you have to do them you can say no and I think

it's you know a lot of today shows on like a work life balance on a time balance and I told you had a lot of good stuff happening today tomorrow and things that would have been so easy to just kind of balk on. I've got a signing of Square Books today. Hope to see some of you guys love doing that. Appreciate seeing anybody who stops by. But I could have said no. You know, I got a game tonight. Had stuff going on. Hadn't seen some people went. I could have turned that down. I could hold. no. I got a game tonight, had stuff going on, hadn't seen some people.

I could have turned that down.

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