Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to solve one nagging problem today. Don't let
Speaker 1: something that is not quite right be a drain on
Speaker 1: your energy. Tackling just one thing means you'll get it done,
Speaker 1: and you'll also make your life a little better. I
Speaker 1: am guessing that a lot of us have nagging problems
Speaker 1: that regularly irk us. For instance, for a long time,
Speaker 1: the door on my four year old's bedroom squeaked if
Speaker 1: I was slipping out after he fell asleep. I worried
Speaker 1: I was going to wake him or this. To get
Speaker 1: from our front door to the path to the pool,
Speaker 1: you had to cross a patch of gravel that is
Speaker 1: fine and choose, but bad with bare feet. That was
Speaker 1: a problem for barefooted kids coming to and from the pool,
Speaker 1: who sometimes then needed to be carried. I'd realized recently
Speaker 1: that I'd bought my seventeen year old a bunch of
Speaker 1: movie posters years ago, and they were still in the
Speaker 1: mailers they'd come in. I kept getting junk email from
Speaker 1: some company in a foreign language, and it was not
Speaker 1: obvious to me which link was the unsubscribed one, so
Speaker 1: I'd just hit delete and punt it forward, getting more
Speaker 1: newsletters the next day. Problems like these don't seem like
Speaker 1: a big deal in the grand scheme of things, and
Speaker 1: they aren't. But they also aren't that hard to solve.
Speaker 1: With a little time or maybe a little money, most
Speaker 1: of these problems could be solved quite easily. So today,
Speaker 1: pick one nagging problem in your life and solve it.
Speaker 1: Just one. If you like me, get spam newsletters in
Speaker 1: a language you don't speak, learn the word for unsubscribe
Speaker 1: in that language, and find it in the emails. I
Speaker 1: am guessing you can do this in a minute with Google.
Speaker 1: Two minutes in the can of WD forty that is
Speaker 1: in your garage can eliminate most squeaks. Of course, some
Speaker 1: nagging issues are a little more complicated, but maybe not
Speaker 1: very A handful of planters solve the problem of a
Speaker 1: painful gravel path. A frame store can frame art or pictures,
Speaker 1: and then you or someone you hire can hang those up.
Speaker 1: I'd recommend choosing one of those nagging issues to get
Speaker 1: on today's to do list, or when you next encounter
Speaker 1: the problem in your life, just deal with it instead
Speaker 1: of getting annoyed or resorting to your usual workaround. Now,
Speaker 1: there's no need to bite off more than you can chew.
Speaker 1: You don't have to solve all your nagging problems today.
Speaker 1: You're busy. I know the thought of doing it all
Speaker 1: is probably overwhelming, so don't. But solve it thing. One
Speaker 1: problem today will for sure remove one sort of friction
Speaker 1: from your life. Then maybe tomorrow or maybe next week,
Speaker 1: you can solve another. New ones will pop up, but
Speaker 1: in general the direction will be right. I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear what nagging problem you solve today. Can you let
Speaker 1: me know what you choose. You can reach me at
Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In the meantime, this
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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