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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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.