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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 don't play jump or dive with your schedule.
Make plans with adequate lead time.
So you don't have to do too much on the fly.
If you grew up with access to a backyard pool, you may have played the pool game jump or dive.
One person stands on a diving board, and after that person launches himself into the air, his friends shout either jump or dive.
Then the person, who is by now midair, maneuvers to either jump or dive in accordance with his friends' directions.
You can probably guess that this usually results in a belly flop, which is kind of a cross between a jump and a dive.
Now, this doesn't sound like my idea of fun, and I think most adults would agree with me, but a lot of kids find it hysterical.
That said, I have noticed that plenty of adults play jump or dive with their schedules.
When you leave things undecided until the last minute, you are often setting yourself up for stress, or wasted time, or an otherwise suboptimal situation.
But you usually don't have to do that.
Suppose you are planning to run with a friend tomorrow morning at 6 a .m., but there is a 70 % chance of rain.
You could wake up at 5 .40 and then decide whether or not to run.
done. But wouldn't you be happier if you decided the night before that you will cancel so you can sleep in?
Or you could agree that you will run together if it's not raining, but get together at Starbucks to hang out if it is.
Either way, you avoid the early wake -up -at -half -asleep text exchange, deciding whether or not to run.
If you're planning to go out with a colleague for a drink after work but realize you'll almost certainly have to work late because a big project just landed on your desk, you could make a call at 5 .15 about whether or not you can pause your work for drinks.
But it might be more considerate to reach out in advance to see if you can shift drinks to another day, or maybe go a little later that day.
You can skip this avoidable pivot.
I know plenty of people who make plans that are vague, which is a variation on jump or dive.
They'll plan to meet up with a friend for brunch on Saturday.
But what does that even mean?
10 o 'clock, 1 o 'clock, and where?
The specific location might add 30 minutes of time for travel and parking.
Depending on the options in your town, your attire might need to be different.
Will you be eating indoors or outdoors?
Instead of planning on brunch on Saturday, make specific plans with the time and place so you are not holding each other's Saturdays hostage.
and figuring out whether to jump or dive on the fly.
Now, to be sure, there are some occasions when leaving things vague on timing for at least a little while might be the way to go.
Lots of you let me know that you enjoyed my interview with Kristen, the frugal girl, on this podcast a few weeks ago.
Both of us generally like to make our plans ahead of time.
But the week I was looking to interview her, she had jury duty.
So we agreed that she would text me in the evening if she found out that she didn't have to go in for her duty on the next day.
Since her day would suddenly be completely free in this case, we could choose a half -hour block that happened to be free for me.
I almost always have one of those somewhere.
Being flexible on timing worked out for us there.
But even in that case, we weren't truly playing jump or dive.
That would be like trying to figure out where six people can go eat dinner when you are all hungry and a lot of the restaurants are full.
In most cases, you know that people get hungry at regular intervals.
So if you have got a group, best to plan for that.
And in general, if you need to adjust plans, doing it as soon as you know means that no one is left lurching as they jump off the diving board. Best not to schedule a meeting right after another meeting that always runs over and just hope that everyone can move the second meeting forward when that's needed.
You want to know if you are jumping or diving before you get to the edge of the diving board. 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 before breakfast is a production of iheart media for more podcasts from iheart media Please visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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