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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that you drive a car, not a time machine.
So best to plan accordingly.
Today's tip comes from a participant in one of my time tracking challenges.
She told me that she had a tendency to underestimate how long various things would take.
So her husband would remind her, tongue -in -cheek, that she drives a car, not a time machine.
If something is 30 minutes away, you will not magically get there in 15.
And if you leave 10 minutes late, the distance is not going to magically become shorter.
She's not the only one who sometimes forgets that we live in the real, non -magical world, where the laws of physics are strictly enforced.
Wanting something to take less time will not make it take less time.
In general, it is better to face this reality.
Since I study time and look at a lot of people's time logs, I've come to see that time estimation is challenging for many people.
This stems from a few things.
Sometimes bad estimates come from looking at insufficient evidence.
Maybe you once drove to your kid's daycare and onto the office in 20 minutes, so you budget 20 minutes routinely.
Once you wrote a 500 -word newsletter article in half an hour, so you assume you can write a similar article during a 30 -minute break between meetings today.
But maybe there were extenuating circumstances for those situations, like there was literally no one else on the road because it was a major holiday that your family just didn't happen to have off.
Or maybe that newsletter was mostly a reprinted memo from a colleague.
The best -case scenario tends not to be the normal scenario, so it may not be realistic to expect to write a newsletter when you've got 30 minutes between meetings, as he probably won't even get the full 30 minutes if the meeting runs late, or you need to go to the bathroom, or you find yourself answering a hot email.
You can start, but your work isn't getting done by a time machine.
We also underestimate with time because we forget about some of the steps.
Unlike time machines, cars need to be parked.
Maybe the time between the actual key -in -the -ignition moment in your driveway to the entrance to your office complex is 20 minutes.
But you have to put on your shoes, walk to your car, get in, put on your seatbelt, and start up a podcast, of course.
On the other end, you need to find a spot, grab your things, tap your badge at security, and walk to your desk.
If you put your shoes on 20 minutes before your first meeting, you will, in fact, be late.
But honestly, I think the biggest thing going on is some fantasizing The truth is, we don't want it to take 40 minutes to get to work Or for that full -on grocery store trip to take 90 minutes So we don't budget the proper amount of time And just hope it will work out Alas, we drive cars, not time machines Wanting something to be different doesn't make it change Instead, it's better to face reality and see what can be done to actually change what's going on while observing the laws of physics.
Maybe you can split daycare drop -off duties.
Maybe you can work from home twice a week.
Maybe you can order groceries online.
But there is nothing gained by routinely underestimating how much time things will take, other than a lot of frustration and and frenzy.
Better to be more accurate and get done what we intend to do.
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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