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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that it might be possible to make a little bit more of your time feel usable.

Being able to use 10% more of your time can, over the long haul, mean you can get a lot more done.

So it is easy to fantasize about long stretches of perfectly productive, uninterrupted time.

No meetings, no slack messages, no quick questions from someone popping their head into the office.

No plumbers, electricians to be let into the house. No children wanting a snack. Just focus time for our most important work. I don't know

about you, but I am guessing that fantasy bears little resemblance to a lot of my

listeners' lives.

I work for myself, and yet I know I have limited stretches for focus time.

A lot of people have much less say over their schedules than I do.

But if you have been listening to Before Breakfast

for a while, you know that we all have 168 hours in the week. Those hours may have a

lot of constraints and interruptions, but they are ours, nonetheless.

So rather than wait for a perfect time, we are wise to make the most of them.

I am sure you can think of plenty of situations where big progress might not be possible,

but maybe small progress might be. Maybe you are working in suboptimal conditions,

like on an airplane or while home taking care of a sick child, when you are tired, when you

are waiting for someone else to provide an important piece of content you need for a project,

or when you just have a short amount of time. Maybe you can't do a lot, but even in suboptimal conditions, you can often do something.

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