Don't leave without scheduling the next time

Get it on your calendar if you want to make it happen

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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 you shouldn't leave without scheduling the next time.
If you need or want to do something again in

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the future, it is best to get the next date
on the books at the time it is easiest to
do so. So I really enjoy getting monthly massages. No
was surprise there. A few years ago I sprang for
the monthly package at Massage Envy, which involves getting one

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massage a month for a discounted rate. It's simple enough
to call and book, but I often would get busy
and wouldn't. Eventually I realized that I shouldn't walk out
from one massage without booking my next massage. That increases
the chances that I stick with a once a month cadence.

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Same with haircuts. Inevitably I wind up letting longer go
between cuts than I want because I haven't booked the
next cut. With a dentist, too, booking the next visit
at your last one increases the odds that you show
up every six months. My daughter sees a specialist at
a hospital a few hours from our house, and we
tend to go once or twice a year. I have

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found that I can avoid a lot of phone tree
waiting if I just book the next visit any time
I am there now. Of course, the problem in the
last two examples is that it is hard to know
what is going to go on in your life six
to twelve months from now. But having a placeholder will
at least remind you that this thing should be there.

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If you need to move it, so be it. By
the way, that seems to be some provider's mindset as well.
We got a note recently, as in during October or
that an appointment for May would need to be moved
at that point. That's totally fine. My schedule isn't that
set for May. If they called to move it a

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week before, that would be more of a problem. When
something is there, though, it is generally rescheduled instead of
it just never happening. That's all fine for medical appointments,
but it's actually a good idea for friend get togethers too. Now.
The best way to do many social gatherings is just
to have a regular cadence. You and a friend always

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have lunch on the first Monday of the month, or
you run on the last Saturday of the month. But
if you are not doing that, then scheduling your next
get together while you are together means it's more likely
to happen and you avoid the need to text back
and forth on scheduling. In general, any back and forth

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scheduling negotiations done in person as a conversation tend to
be more pleasant than those done electronically. When you schedule
your next lunch with your friend while you're ending one lunch,
then you can look forward to it. You know you
will get together again soon, and that can make ending
of one fun get together less of a letdown. I

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am all for anything that increases happiness 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.

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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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