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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 that you don't have to schedule calls.

In your personal life and your professional life.

If you want to talk with someone, you can.

Just pick up the phone.

So I'm guessing that you occasionally

get an unexpected call from someone you know.

You may wonder why they are calling.

Perhaps you even worry that you forgot about something.

Or perhaps that something terrible has happened.

But if you pick up the phone and discover that the person was just thinking of you

and wanted to say hi, the call will almost certainly brighten your day.

And if the unexpected call is from a colleague who has a quick question,

I am guessing you would much prefer that call to receiving a multi paragraph email

that would take you 15 minutes to respond to. In both of these cases you weren't mad about receiving the call.

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