Check if you'll need to reschedule

Look forward a few weeks to avoid last minute cancelations

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is that if you have recurring appointments, do yourself
a favor and check if you'll need to reschedule any

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future ones. If you do this during your current appointment,
you will save yourself some time and hassle and potentially
money for places with late cancelation fees. So in general,
recurring appointments are a wonderful idea. There is no reason
to discuss when you will meet with your trainer each

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week or when your cleaning service comes. Likewise, setting up
a regular Saturday morning run with a friend makes it
a lot easier to see your friend and get some exercise.
When things always happen at the same time, you don't
waste time finding a mutually convenient time, because everybody reserves

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the time in advance. The one trick with recurring appointments, though,
is that sometimes you need to reschedule them. I was
thinking about this recently because our cleaning service comes every Thursday,
but I realized we wouldn't need them while we were
at the beach, so I used the occasion of them
being there on a Thursday morning to remind myself to

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cancel those two visits when we would be out of town.
If you have a monthly meeting with a client every
fourth Thursday at eleven o'clock if you are in the
United States, you will almost certainly need to reschedule the
November meeting because it's going to fall on Thanksgiving. Maybe
a standing appointment with a direct report or a recurring

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FaceTime lunch with a friend falls on a day you'll
be at a conference, you will need to adjust. I
find it helpful to use the occasion of the recurring
appointment to nudge my brain to look ahead to the
next one or two. The further ahead you look, the
easier it will be to reschedule if you need to.

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And since the appointment is happening right then you will
likely be with the people who could make a rescheduling happen.
This is far more efficient than trying to reschedule over
email or texts later. Of course, if something does happen
frequently enough, I think it's generally best to cancel an
occasion rather than reschedule it. If you are off for

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a work holiday, just pick things up the next time.
I didn't need to have my house cleaned three times
in a week when I got home from two weeks
at the beach. Most people don't mind a little extra
time in their calendars if they are given advance notice,
But do give people notice. You probably know if you

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are on vacation to tuesdays from now, so why wait
until a day before to let people know that check
if you will need to reschedule or cancel, and you
will make life a little easier for everyone in the meantime.
This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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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 Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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