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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to think about the arc of a month.
Taking a few moments at the beginning of the month to think about what you need to do and what you are looking forward to can make any stretch of time feel more doable and interesting.
Long -time listeners know that I believe most people live their lives in weeks.
A week is the unit of repeat in the pattern of our lives.
And by looking at 168 hours, you will have a pretty good sense of what someone's life truly looks like.
I generally plan my life in weeks but lately I've been thinking a little bit more about months.
By taking a few minutes at the beginning of a month to think about what's going on what I need to do and what I'm looking forward to I can plan time more holistically.
Maybe I can move something to a lower key week or maybe I need to add something to a time that's looking kind of dreary.
A key thing this practice does is remind you what the weekends are for any given month.
The last weekend of the month can seem a ways away from the vantage point of the first.
But if there is something more elaborate you would like to do, getting a rough idea far ahead of time makes it more likely to happen.
You also keep yourself from getting blindsided by big stuff.
Maybe you know on some level that you have a big deadline on the 27th of a given month.
That seems far away, but you are not actively thinking about the fact that you're going to that conference from the 19th to the 23rd, and you've got family visiting the week before that.
Knowing you have all that on your plate can remind you to work ahead earlier in the month, so you're not quite so crunched at the end.
Alternately, you might see that you're going to get slammed in the first week or two, but the last two weeks of the month are pretty open.
Now you know to try to keep them that way so you can recover after going through the ringer rather than simply putting things there without thinking about it.
There might also be days that it's just wise to know about.
I know I sometimes forget about the random half days at my kids' schools.
Looking ahead a month reminds me to get those on the calendar.
And if things are looking kind of grim, well, it's always good to put something fun into the near future.
I know the early days of January felt much better for me when I decided to put two fun Friday night activities on different weekends through the month.
It was not just a cold and dreary month.
January was a month where I went to see a Sixers game.
And I went to Boston with a friend.
You don't need to spend much time on this.
I don't. And if I forget to do it, planning life just in terms of weeks and then seasons is fine.
But I know a lot of people do get some sort of fresh month energy as they, at least metaphorically, flip their calendar pages.
If that is true for you, then there's no harm in treating a month as a unit and looking at all of it.
You just might wind up with more fun on the calendar or more space if that's what you want by looking ahead.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam .com.
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