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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 consider being generous with your time.
While boundaries are wise, people are generally a good use of time.
So be generous with time when you can. There is a famous passage from 1 Corinthians that is read at weddings about love.
You probably remember how this starts from the last wedding you went to, with the statement that love is patient.
I was pondering recently what it means for love to be patient, and I realized that fundamentally, patience means being generous with time.
When love is patient, it means we aren't rushing off to the next thing.
We are giving people enough time to be heard and seen.
This plays out in all sorts of ways. It can mean chatting with a teenager, even though it is bedtime and you are tired.
It can mean listening to your spouse's worries, even though you are annoyed about something else he or she did.
It can mean taking time to encourage a direct report, even in the middle of a packed day.
It can mean graciously listening to your elderly neighbor tell that same story about her grandchild again.
Time is ultimately limited, and so this generosity is costly in a way that being profligate with money is not.
You can make more money. You cannot make more time.
And so a lot of time management literature talks about saying no more often.
And perhaps there is something to that. But when we can say yes to the people in our lives, it strengthens those relationships in a way that little else can.
I fundamentally believe that people are a good use of time.
And the good news is that a few minutes invested in generosity is often paid back in profound ways.
I love to get emails from listeners and readers, and I respond to almost all of it.
As a result of spending just a few minutes on those emails here and there, I have made some great friends and professional acquaintances over the years because of those connections.
Talk about a huge payback. Many of us have had the experience of encouraging a young person in our field.
That young person then goes on to become a total rock star and a font of all sorts of opportunities.
Again, that is a big payback for what was probably not a huge investment of time.
Now, generosity doesn't need to be a blank check, and I am sure that sometimes generosity is abused.
But even if being generous with time sometimes feels like a waste of time, the truth is that we waste time on all kinds of things as it is.
I doubt that listening to a neighbor's story is a much worse use of time than scrolling around online for a few minutes.
The former can spread some serious joy. Love is patient.
And we all need more love in the world. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening. And here's to making the most of our time.
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