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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that you drive a car, not a time machine.

So, best to plan accordingly.

Today's tip comes from a participant in one of my time tracking challenges.

She told me that she had a tendency to underestimate how long various things would take.

So her husband would remind her, tongue and cheek, that she drives a car,

not a time machine. If something is 30 minutes away, you will not magically get there in 15.

And if you leave 10 minutes late, the distance is not going to magically become shorter.

She's not the only one who sometimes forgets that we live in the real, non-magical world,

where the laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Wanting something to take less time will not make it take less time.

In general, it is better to face this reality. Since I study time and look

at a lot of people's time logs, I've come to see that time estimation is challenging for many

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