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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 avoid pendulum swings.
Consistency tends to lead to better outcomes than going to extremes.
And it also tends to be less stressful.
So when something in your life feels out of whack, it can be easy to overcorrect.
If you've had a really busy social season, you may be inclined to turn down all social plans for the next few weeks.
If you are disciplined in January about saving money, you may wind up buying everything under the sun in February.
And if you put in a week of really long days, you may find yourself phoning it in the next week.
The problem is that these overcorrections are seldom the right solutions either.
Having zero social plans is the recipe for heading into work Monday, feeling like the weekend never happened.
Which is depressing.
So you overschedule the next weekend and feel out of sorts again.
Saving money through deprivation doesn't help.
If you then spend everything you saved.
And if you slack at work, you might need to put in long days the next week in order to get caught up.
Pendulum swings like these can leave you feeling like you are never in the right place.
Even if your average social events per week or spending per month or sweets per day or hours per week worked or any other metric seems to be exactly what you want.
If you are not within the range of what's best for you during shorter periods, you may end up feeling frazzled.
I have certainly seen this with sleep.
Even during the worst of the baby years, my time logs showed that I averaged 7 .4 hours of sleep per day over any longer stretch of time.
But my time logs also show some awful days of being up three times in the night or finally getting a baby down at 1am only to be up at 5 .30 to catch a plane.
I'd nap or crash other places in order to hit the average.
But it wasn't a lot of fun.
With babies who don't sleep well, this is what it is.
These days, my kids are older and I can be more consistent with daily sleep totals.
I am still averaging 7 .4 hours per day, but it feels entirely different than those pendulum swings.
When pendulum swings can be avoided, as with most other metrics that don't involve nursing babies, life will feel a lot less chaotic.
So with any metric that matters to you, spending, exercise, hours worked, social plans, figure out what feels sustainable long -term.
Can you really bill 40 hours per week or is 36 hours more sustainable?
Can you actually run 28 miles per week?
Or is 20 more realistic, given your other commitments?
Will you feel over -scheduled if you go out four nights a week?
Or disconnected if you're home for seven nights a week?
Is $200 per week doable for groceries week to week?
Or will spending $200 on groceries this week lead you to ring up a hefty $400 bill next week?
In any aspect of your life where you're feeling off -kilter, pay attention to the actual time and money you spend week to week and figure out the amount that feels about right.
Then aim to get pretty close to that amount consistently.
If you do, you will be on track to meet your long -term goals.
And you'll also avoid the stress and disorder that can come from pendulum swings.
Not every week will be right at the ideal, of course, but you'll know to return to it as soon as you can.
For instance, if you put in a really long week at work, perhaps you take a comp half -day the next Monday morning, but then work at a normal pace the rest of the time.
If you overindulge on a trip to New Orleans, you don't need to eat salad every meal for the next month, just go back to your usual moderate habits.
It will all be fine.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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Thanks so much. I look forward to staying in touch.
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