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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is the third in a five-part series

on how to take control of your time in the new year.

This week I'll be talking about five strategies that I know will help you feel less busy

and get more done, because they've definitely helped me.

The first strategy was to track your time. The second is to build in an extra hour

for something you'd really like to do.

The third strategy, honor this phrase. First things first.

My fellow productivity types will no doubt recognize this phrase from the late Stephen Covey's famous book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Noting that people spent a ton of time on things that were urgent but not important,

Kovey urged people to spend more time on things that were important but not urgent.

By putting what he called first things into our schedules first, we would massively increase

the chances that they'd happen.

This is pretty much timeless advice.

Covey's book came out in 1990,

which was before people had smartphones,

dinging all day long with group text comments

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