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trying to do. It's just more pure. The failure is more pure and the success is more pure.

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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to figure out each day what you might be able to compress or skip if necessary.

That way, you can get mindfully back on schedule when your day isn't going according to plan.

I maintain that a great many of the things that come up and that people use as excuses are entirely

foreseeable. Traffic during rush hour. A snow day. A client asking for revisions. Who would have thought?

This is why true time management masters build in buffers and make backup plans.

They think about what might come up and they think about how they'll cope.

However, even if we are very careful, things can still disrupt the schedule.

Sometimes, these are good things. If a new client wants to spend the morning

discussing potential projects, well, you probably do want to do that.

If your backup slot is later in the week, you might spend a lot of time figuring out how to

rework the schedule. But there's another option you can try as well.

Every day, identify one or two things that you do plan to do, but that you could eliminate or

simplify if the need arose. That way, you have an immediate plan of action that you don't have

to think too much about and can possibly still be on track for the day, including for things

in our personal lives when work runs long. So for instance, when you plan your day,

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