What are you training for?
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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio. Good morning. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that we tend to get better at anything we do repeatedly. In other words, we are always training for something. The question is just what we are training for. So at various points in my life, I have trained for different running races. Once a marathon, several times a half marathon. As part of this, you tend to spend more time running than you otherwise would. And you go for longer distances. I am not currently training for any races. I feel like I've kind of had enough of that in my life at this point. But it occurred to me that whenever you spend lots of time on something...
you tend to get at least somewhat better at it.
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You develop efficiencies. Certain aspects take less time. If you run a lot, you are generally going to get somewhat faster. And this is true for non-athletic things, too. I have now written somewhere close to 2,000 of these scripts for Before Breakfast at this point. For sure, it takes me less time to write a 500-word essay designed to be read out loud than it used to. I am also swifter at recording. I have been apparently training to write and record five-minute episodes for seven years now, whether that is what I intended to get more efficient at or not. I'm guessing it is the same for you. Whatever you do over and over again in life, you become more efficient at and better at. You are, in essence, training.
Sometimes this is great. It's good to become better at giving employees helpful feedback. It is good to become better at running great meetings. It's good to become better at sales calls or writing proposals for clients. But sometimes we come better at things we do repeatedly, whether we would actively choose to be better at these things or not. Maybe someone has become really good at going through the drive-thru at a favorite restaurant. I have become really efficient at ordering Starbucks. People might become really good at surviving boring meetings and mentally transporting themselves elsewhere through a lot of practice. People become good at reading through social media posts. We get ourselves instantly to the most outrageous one through lots of time and practice.
We are always training for something. Whatever we do repeatedly, we wind up getting better at. While I am happy to get better at writing 500-word essays, I don't want to do that at the expense of other kinds of writing. So I'm making sure I'm carving out some time for that, too. If you spend a lot of time reading Slack messages, you might be getting really good at that. But maybe that is not what you want to develop skills in. One of the upsides of tracking your time is that you can see what you are spending a lot of time doing.
How does the host illustrate training with running and race examples?
If I'd like to read more and get speedier at reading, I bet I could repurpose some of my scrolling or puttering time. If I'd like to get better at long-form writing, then I need to make sure I am carving out time to do that repeatedly alongside the shorter stuff. If you'd like to get better at presenting, make sure you've got plenty of practice time for that, alongside time devoted to the skill of surviving boring meetings. When we realize we are always training for something, then we can decide what we want to be training for. Maybe it's something we are already doing, or maybe it's something new. But bits of time add up. We want to make sure they are adding up to something we want to see in our lives.
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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