Second Cup: You could just do it now
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If you love thoughtful advice and smart strategies, check out Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that sometimes we overthink things. If there is something you need to do and you have been putting it off, you could just do it now.

and then you would be on the other side of it. And wouldn't that feel amazing? So I will start this podcast by saying that I am normally a big fan of batching little tasks. Generally, it is not efficient to do little things like paying bills, responding to invitations, and filing paperwork whenever these things occur to you. You will feel pulled in a million directions, and like you are never getting anything that matters done.

Best to batch the little things during one lower energy time and preserve your best, most energetic times for other things. But sometimes we really start to put certain tasks off. I have been guilty of not wanting to send an email or make a call that I know will disappoint someone. Or I need to call customer service about a problem. And whoever wants to do that?

The other day, I needed to go to the pediatrician to drop off some forms that needed to be signed. And then they did that quite quickly. So I had to go back to pick them up. And I was kind of hemming and hawing about when would be the right time to go do this errand. But then I realized that I didn't have anything scheduled for the next 45 minutes or so. So why not just do it now? These tasks tend not to be fun. But if they have to be done, then they have to be done.

You can try to find a perfect time, but there is never going to be a perfect time to call customer service, tell a vendor you're not going to be using them anymore, or ask your contractor to come back to redo something. So here's an idea. Just do it now. If you are in the car, well, after you pull into the parking lot at work, do the thing then. If you are listening to this at home while folding laundry, stop folding laundry and get this thing over with. It won't be enjoyable.

But once you do it, it will be done. And it won't be hanging over your head for any more time. The longer these unpleasant tasks linger on a to-do list, the more psychological power they start to have. You start thinking through hypothetical ways the conversation might go. Well, better to spend that mental energy having the actual conversation, right? If you do it now, most likely in a very short amount of time,

you will be on the other side of the experience. And honestly, that is a much better place to be. So how about just doing it now? Things won't be different in an hour or tomorrow or on Monday morning. If there really is never going to be a perfect time, now just might be as good a time as any. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening. And here's to making the most of our time. ♪ Yeah ♪

Thanks so much. I look forward to staying in touch.

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