Second Cup: How not to overcommit

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Planning helps you see how much space you have

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0:22.9	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I-Hart Radio.
0:28.5	Good morning.
0:30.7	This is Laura.
0:33.0	Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
0:36.7	Today's tip is about one way to keep yourself from overcommitting.
0:43.1	By thinking through each week ahead of time, you can see what is already happening or needs to happen.
0:51.4	And so you won't add on anything new, unless there is a really good reason,
0:57.7	because most likely there won't be any space. On Friday a few weeks ago, I was planning my
1:07.4	upcoming week, as I usually do, and I was reminded that it was going to be a tight week.
1:13.6	I was gone much of Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday was booked solid with local events.
1:20.8	I had Thursday and Friday to be at my desk, but we were leaving Saturday for a family trip,
1:27.3	so all the packing would have to fit in there too. but we were leaving Saturday for a family trip.
1:30.2	So all the packing would have to fit in there too.
1:37.3	In other words, I had approximately half a week to fit in not only the stuff from that week,
1:41.5	but anything that had to happen in advance of the week I'd be gone as well.
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