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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to remember that your time is your own.

We have responsibilities to other people and organizations, but your time is fundamentally yours.

And you can make choices with how to spend it.

So I frequently hear from people about their challenges and hopes for their time.

One person recently told me that if she were successful in making over her schedule,

she would feel that her time and her life belonged to her again.

Well, on some level, I think that is an inspiring goal that was also sobering to hear,

because it implied that she didn't feel like her time and her life belonged to her currently.

And I understand that feeling.

I think a lot of people feel like their time is not their own.

When you are at work, you might feel like that is your employer's time. When you are cooking or doing laundry, getting groceries, it's

your family's time. Or maybe it's more abstract than that. You may feel a vague sense of obligation

to no one in particular to keep a clean house,

and make a balanced meal, and send Christmas cards to.

When you're with your kids, it is their time.

And maybe when you're not with your kids, you may feel like it should be.

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