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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 that if there is a decision you need to make, but you can't make it at this moment, commit to a specific time in the future when you will make the decision.
In other words, decide when you'll decide.
This means you won't forget, and you can hopefully stop ruminating about it until then.
So sometimes there are plans or decisions that have to be made, but something else has to happen First, before you can make your plans.
For instance, maybe you would like to renovate your kitchen, but you want to know for sure that you are getting that raise before you sign a contract.
You know you'll need to rework your child care schedule once the school year starts, but you don't know when all your kids' activities will be, so you don't know the exact hours you will need help.
You need to know whether your whole family will be traveling for all of Thanksgiving, or whether your spouse will be home for some of the time, to know what days you're going to need pet care.
Even if you are ready to make plans, other people may not be.
Inexplicably, some medical practices and specialties where you are supposed to go annually don't let you make appointments more than six months in advance, so you need to remember to call and decide on an appointment in six months.
Or maybe you would be fine scheduling dinner with a friend a month in advance, but your friend operates on more of a three days out sort of planning cadence.
There is not a lot of upside to spending a lot of time thinking about these exact logistics in these scenarios, because you don't have enough information to move forward. I mean, you can do prep work.
For instance, if you are thinking of doing a major kitchen renovation, you can start recommendations on contractors and talking with a few of them to get a sense of what this would all cost and what the timeline would be.
You can figure out which doggy daycares tend to have space over Thanksgiving, but you probably won't make exact, locked -in plans right now.
So decide when you will decide.
You will know on that raise one way or another by October 1st, and so that is when you will decide on your kitchen.
You will have a conversation with your babysitter the first week of September about what the school schedule is looking like.
You can estimate when you are likely to have the facts you need to make the decision and then set a reminder to revisit the decision on that day.
Put a note on your calendar or create some other way to make sure that this is front of mind then.
Then, once you have decided when you will decide and set a reminder, you can put the unsettled plans aside for the moment.
Now, I know this is hard. Personally, I like to close all open loops, so I might have gone ahead and just booked the doggy daycare for all of Thanksgiving and figured I could always use fewer days.
But in many cases, decisions don't have to be made right away.
You can decide to decide in the future.
When the appointed time for making decisions or plans arrives, if you still can't make a decision for some reason, well, no worries.
Just reschedule the decision point and set a new reminder.
When you decide when you will decide and set a reminder, you avoid stewing over things that you can't do anything about.
And, because of the reminder, you also avoid worrying that you will forget to make plans when the time comes.
Scheduling your decision ensures you will make the plans when you need to and frees you up for focusing on other things.
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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