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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 schedule yourself first.
Identify what needs to happen for your life to run smoothly and for you to achieve your goals.
Then, schedule those activities first, before committing to anything else.
So, you have probably heard the classic financial advice to pay yourself first.
To save money for your own future needs, before you pay for everything else.
Money goes to your retirement account or emergency fund before it goes to clothes or dinners out or anything discretionary.
If you wait to save what is left over, there might not be anything left over.
But if you pay yourself first, one way or the other, you'll get through to your next paycheck and you will build wealth at the same time.
as is so often the case what is wise for money is wise for time too just as people who are smart with their money set aside savings for their future needs before they spend on other things people who are smart with their time figure out how much time they need to invest in maintaining their well -being
and for achieving their goals they put that time on their schedule first before they commit to spending time in other ways.
The most obvious category this works with is sleep.
If you need seven and a half hours of sleep per day, then you should carve out seven and a half hours of time each day during which you can sleep.
Since my guess is that you need to wake up at set times most days for work or family responsibilities, that means going to bed at a reasonable time.
Doing that instead of trying to get to the bottom of your bottomless inbox amounts to paying yourself first.
Maintaining good health also requires time for physical activity.
If you have an active job, great.
But if you sit all day, then you need time devoted to moving your body.
And you need that more than you need that marginal extra meeting.
Block it in. Schedule yourself first so you reap the rewards over time.
you can also schedule yourself first by devoting time to those long -term projects that you don't want to die not having done i don't know what it is for you but lots of people want to do things like start a business or write a book or read war and peace if that sounds like you then paying yourself first
means putting time for those things on your schedule before you take care of everything else demanding your attention.
For many people, the best time is first thing in the morning.
I am here to tell you that if you get up and read one of the very short chapters of War and Peace every morning, which will probably take less than 10 minutes, you will get through the book in a year.
You won't really notice those 10 minutes in the grand scheme of things, just like you don't have to save incredible amounts per day to have a reasonably secure retirement.
But all that time does add up.
So it goes for all things.
If you want to explore entrepreneurial ideas, schedule in an hour, Monday morning, Wednesday morning, and stick to it.
See how it goes. If you find the time is fruitful, you can start adding to it.
But if nothing else, having that time on your calendar will get your brain in that mindset.
You might start having ideas and moving yourself forward.
And if you don't schedule yourself first, well, all time passes, just like money has a way of disappearing.
best to schedule yourself first like you pay yourself first and you will be far richer in the end in the meantime this is Laura thanks for listening and here's to making the most of our time Hey everybody I'd love to hear from you You can send me your tips, your questions, or anything else.
Just connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at beforebreakfastpod.
That's B -E, the number four, then breakfast, P -O -D.
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Thanks so much. I look forward to staying in touch.
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