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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Keep a Good Time journal

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A simple strategy can help you spend more time on work you love

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0:00.0

If you really want to know what's going on in this country heading into the 2024 election, you have to get away from the extremes and listen to the middle.

0:07.0

Hi, Jan, here in Kansas City, Missouri.

0:10.0

On the podcast The Middle with Jeremy Hobson, I'll take calls live every week elevating the voices of Americans who are so important when it comes to who's in power and what gets done

0:19.3

My name is Wengk and I'm calling you from Atlanta, Georgia

0:22.4

Listen to the middle with Jeremy Hobson on the is Venet. I'm calling you from Atlanta, Georgia.

0:22.8

Listen to the middle with Jeremy Hopson on the I-Heart

0:25.4

radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:37.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura.

0:41.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.0

Today's tip is to use a journal

0:47.0

to identify the aspects of your work you find energizing and engaging,

0:51.0

and those you don't.

0:53.0

Once you know this, you can arrange your life to do more of the work you love.

0:58.0

This tip, like others we've talked about before on Before Breakfast,

1:02.0

comes from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans book

1:04.0

designing your life. This book shows how to use design principles to create a life that

1:09.2

works for you. Longtime listeners know that I am a big believer in tracking your time.

1:15.0

We learn a lot by seeing where the time really goes.

1:19.0

Collecting the data allows us to adjust our schedules and routines to spend our time better.

1:25.0

Burnett and Evans proposed keeping something called a good time journal

1:29.0

to help you do something very similar.

1:31.0

Here's how it works. Jot down your activities at the end of each work day,

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