Preserve time for possibilities

0:03Speaker 1:Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to preserve time for possibilities. Create some space in your schedule where you can welcome new ideas and opportunities into your life, and new ideas and opportunities are more likely to come to you. Today's tip, like some other upcoming ones, comes from my new book, Big Time, A Simple Path to Time Abundance. A core strategy I share in that book is to be open to serendipity, the unexpected, wonderful experiences that the world has to offer, if you're paying attention to them. These are the things that make time and life feel exciting, rather than one long list of to-dos. One of the best ways to welcome possibility into your life is to leave open space in your schedule. When we are overscheduled, we tend to feel like we can't take on anything new, and we don't follow the threads that come into our lives. But open space alone is often insufficient. Open space tends to become a backup slot when things go wrong elsewhere in a schedule, which is good. but not exactly what we

1:36Speaker 1:are getting at here. So instead, actively schedule a block of time for possibility. What that looks like will be different for different people. But here are some ideas. If you have lots of people who want to talk with you about ideas, you might schedule an hour or two on Friday mornings as possibility time. During this time, you can schedule those calls or meetings, and you don't start weighing these against all the other things you have going on in your life. This is time for possibility. And so this is where these speculative things go. If it's not meetings, but it's interesting emails, you can flag those for review during this time. If people are proposing new things or ideas or projects, You can think about them and follow up on these things during this window. If you tend not to have people pitching you ideas, then you can go seek out possibility yourself during this window.

2:44Speaker 1:Read that interesting article all the way to the end and see what it suggests. Watch that TED talk on a topic you find fascinating. Poke around with some software that you think might be helpful for your work. Follow a thought leader you saw mentioned elsewhere and watch a few of their videos or read one of their articles. This curiosity might not lead to anything, but it might. You might see a connection to something that you are working on. You might get a new idea. You might think of someone to reach out to. And that can create its own magic. If we don't protect time for possibilities, our time is likely to get filled up with other things.

3:34Speaker 1:And there won't be room for other people's good ideas or for us to pursue curiosity ourselves. Over time, this makes us less likely to be innovative, creative, and open to new opportunities. So even if you are busy, perhaps especially if you are busy, consider scheduling time Possibility time. Create space in your life for the wonderful possibilities that you didn't even know you were looking for. And those possibilities will start to find you. 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.

4:27Speaker 1:If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com. Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartMedia. For more podcasts from iHeartMedia, please visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Thank you.