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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 about when to schedule meetings that you

know won't be particularly pleasant. You know they have to happen, but you also

don't want to have them consume more mental space than necessary.

This topic was suggested by a before breakfast listener who wrote in that my most productive time,

like most peoples, is in the morning after breakfast.

She wanted to preserve that time for focused work, and so her inclination was to schedule

most meetings for the afternoon.

The problem, if she knew the meeting would be rather intense,

she found herself thinking about it all day.

She wondered if it might make sense to just get it over with, but if I schedule meetings in the

mornings I worry that I am spending my most productive time in meetings.

It was quite a quandary. In general, her inclination toward

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