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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that if you are looking to reduce the time spent on life

maintenance, experiment with whether you can stretch the cadence on some recurring tasks.

My hunch is that life will go on, if certain things happen, a bit less often.

Long-time listeners know that my planning is focused on weeks, that is 168 hours.

Much of our life happens in weekly rhythms. Work, school, exercise classes, religious services, many volunteer commitments,

and even some social engagements have a weekly rhythm. So it might seem to make sense to tuck chores

into the hardscape of our weekly calendars around the other recurring fixed points. I know that many people

absorb the idea that certain chores need to be done weekly when they're growing up. If your parents

did laundry every Monday, grocery shopping every Tuesday, cleaning every Wednesday, and so forth,

you may assume that this rhythm is right.

And sometimes a weekly cadence for life maintenance tasks works well.

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