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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that you won't come back to it.

Your future self is not going to magically have more time and energy.

So aim not to leave things undone with the idea that you will revisit the project soon.

You probably won't. Do what you can do when you think of it,

and realize that is probably what it's going to be. So one of the things I've discovered about time

over the years is that people are wildly optimistic about what their future selves will be capable of.

We actually put items like Clean Out Attic on a weekend to-do list,

as if a decade's worth of accumulated stuff will be easily dispatched in our 36 waking weekend hours,

and as if we'll want to devote all 36 of those waking weekend hours to

this project. We'll also do half a project, like start a photo book, and then leave it, thinking that

even though it was hard to find time for the first half of this project, the second half will

magically appear. Or we put an item on the stairs rather

than walk it all the way to where it is going, as if our future selves will be more capable

of moving the item into place. But the truth is that our future selves are going to be very,

very similar to our current selves. Our future

selves will have the exact same amount of time and energy. If it is limited now, it will be

limited then. Better to remind yourself that unless something becomes really urgent or is incredibly important,

you are not going to come back to it.

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