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Good morning.
This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that you won't come back to it.
Your future self is not going to magically have more time and energy.
So aim not to leave things undone with the idea that you will revisit the project soon.
You probably won't.
Do what you can do when you think of it and realize that is probably what it's going to be.
So one of the things I've discovered about time over the years is that people are wildly optimistic about what their future selves will be capable of.
We actually put items like clean out attic on a weekend to-do list.
As if a decade's worth of accumulated stuff will be easily dispatched in our 36 waking weekend hours.
And as if we'll want to devote all 36 of those waking weekend hours to this project.
We'll also do half a project, like start a photo book, and then leave it.
Thinking that, even though it was hard to find time for the first half of this project, the second half will magically appear.
Or we put an item on the stairs rather than walk it all the way to where it is going, as if our future selves will be more capable of moving the item into place.
But the truth is that our future selves are going to be very very similar to our current selves.
Our future selves will have the exact same amount of time and energy.
If it is limited now, it will be limited then.
Better to remind yourself that unless something becomes really urgent or is incredibly important, you are not going to come back to it.
Certainly not immediately and probably not for a while, unless you go on a finishing blitz or something.
But most people don't do that.
So, better to do what you can do today.
Create projects for yourself based on what you can do now and without creating future to-dos for yourself.
If you can get to finishing quickly, that is probably a good thing.
So if you had a nice weekend at a friend's lake house, don't intend to spend time next weekend finding the perfect thank you card and handwriting her a thank you note with printed photos included.
Most likely next weekend will have its own crises.
Instead, write a quick note as you're thinking about it and get it in the mail immediately.
If you aren't anywhere near paper and stamps, send a text with some photos thanking her.
You won't come back to it.
So better to do what you can do now.
After a meeting.
Don't assume you'll have some magical time in the future to write up complete notes with a full analysis of next steps.
Just send your imperfect notes right after the meeting when they are relevant.
You won't come back to it.
And it's better to send the notes than not send them or worry about this undone task for three weeks until you realize it is pointless to send the notes because they are so late.
To be sure, sometimes it might be worthwhile to wait to do something thoroughly.
But unless you are entirely confident that you will complete the thorough job later like there is a big block of time carved out on your calendar and lots of accountability for the task, the odds are it isn't going to happen.
You aren't going to come back to it.
Your future self probably won't have the time or inclination to do what your present self can't do now.
So you're likely better off doing a good enough job now instead of imagining what you'd like to do in the future.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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