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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to train into the net.

True time management masters create a resilient schedule, one in which life can keep moving forward,

even when things don't go, as planned.

In my forthcoming book, Big Time,

A Simple Path to Time Abundance,

I talk about becoming the ringmaster of your life.

When people say my life is a circus,

they usually mean it's chaotic,

but this is a slander against circuses. An actual circus is incredibly well-organized.

Performers do their tricks precisely, often executing things in series within a fraction of a second.

There is no question where anyone is supposed to be or when. The logistics are incredible.

We should aspire for our lives to be like a circus. But there's another part of this metaphor,

which is that acrobats and other performers usually perform over a net. The idea is that if something goes

awry, the outcome isn't terrible. Now, to my mind, a net is a net, but when I have spoken with

professional acrobatts, I've learned that is not the case. The net needs to be precisely where they expect it to be.

They also train into the net, figuring out how to land in the net so that they don't get injured.

In other words, the net isn't an afterthought at all. It is a very carefully considered part of the program. I think this is wise,

and yet contrasts this with how many people think about their schedules. Maybe we think

casually about what might go wrong, but we don't really think this through. We just trust that

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