the unimaginable. Season 2 of the Unimaginable hones in on individuals who have led unimaginable

lives by following their instinct from guests like Tyco White TT. Stick to your vision of what

you're trying to do. It's just more pure. The failure is more pure and the success is more pure.

This season delivers behind-the-scenes conversations about the many roads to success. Listen to

the unimaginable on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Every weekday morning,

I'll be sharing a strategy to help you take your day from great to awesome. In future episodes,

we'll dive right into the tips. But in these first few episodes, I'm introducing myself and talking

about why time matters and what time management really means. Today, I want to talk about wasting time.

What does it mean to waste time? How does it happen? What should we do about it?

Different people have different definitions. Generally, wasting time sounds like a bad thing.

They're scondering something precious. But precisely because it has a negative connotation,

some people like to show how clever and contrary they are by assigning a certain romanticism to

wasting time. Spend enough time online and you'll notice that a lot of these people write very

similar essays. They proudly note that they don't buy into Puritan notions that all time must be

productive. They describe a scene of them doing some allegedly frivolous things, staring at the clouds,

oh, the world groans in protest, but our essayist is proud of such wasted time.

Some of this writing is much better than others. It's also got a lot of historical precedent.

When I first started writing about time management, a friend sent me John Keats' poem,

Ode on Indolence, which was written in 1819. He talks of being visited by the shadow of ambition,

but sending her off, noting that you cannot raise my head cool-bedded in the flowery grass.

Keats just wants to lie there, staring up at the sky. To which I say, great! I think taking breaks to

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