Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is about what to do when you're feeling
Speaker 1: frazzled or dissatisfied with some part of your life. Find
Speaker 1: a starting point for improvement and go from there. Many
Speaker 1: of us have had our routines disrupted over the past
Speaker 1: few months. That regiment of healthy eating has been hard
Speaker 1: to maintain when you're working five feet from your snack
Speaker 1: stocked pantry. You worked hard to establish a three times
Speaker 1: a week jim habit, and then you're gym closed. Even
Speaker 1: in the best of times, circumstances are ever changing, and
Speaker 1: what worked in the past doesn't anymore. We find ourselves
Speaker 1: feeling overwhelmed and feeling like big chunks of our lives
Speaker 1: need to make over. When that happens, it's easy to
Speaker 1: identify endless overhauls and then feel paralyzed because there's so
Speaker 1: much we could do. The best approach overcome the paralysis
Speaker 1: by finding one starting point and getting to work. Choose
Speaker 1: one thing in your life that's not working right now
Speaker 1: and find the specific way to start improving it. Sure,
Speaker 1: there are tons of issues and tons of ways to
Speaker 1: address each issue, but just pick one to start, ideally,
Speaker 1: one that feels doable and that's likely to yield at
Speaker 1: least some results. For example, if you're not eating as
Speaker 1: healthfully as you'd like, and trust me, I sympathize, you
Speaker 1: might decide that you're going to start by winning at breakfast.
Speaker 1: Maybe you decide you'll have a scrambled egg and fruit
Speaker 1: every morning. Don't worry about lunch or snacks or dinner
Speaker 1: for a while. Just keep up your mindless but healthy
Speaker 1: breakfast routine until it becomes easy. Then, once you're consistently
Speaker 1: winning at breakfast, maybe you decide you'll have a salad
Speaker 1: with dinner every night. The point is to do something,
Speaker 1: even something small, and start noticing improvement, rather than getting
Speaker 1: stuck ruminating over all the changes you could make without
Speaker 1: making any of them. The same thought process works for
Speaker 1: any frustration we're experiencing. For instance, a normally neat home
Speaker 1: becomes less neat with seven people living in it. There
Speaker 1: is no getting around this. But rather than spend hours
Speaker 1: in fruitless tidying, maybe choose one space to clear up
Speaker 1: that will deliver a big mental and organizational payoff. I
Speaker 1: like a clear kitchen island. The rest of the house
Speaker 1: can fall apart. But if that looks clear, life feels doable.
Speaker 1: So that's the starting point. Maybe the male pile will
Speaker 1: sort itself in the future, but for now, oh well.
Speaker 1: I love a whole life makeover, our whole house makeover
Speaker 1: as much as the next person. But the mistake isn't
Speaker 1: waiting until all of that can be tackled to make
Speaker 1: any improvements. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of
Speaker 1: the good. When you're faced with a huge challenge, don't
Speaker 1: worry about the master plan. Just find a starting point,
Speaker 1: make some progress, maintain that progress, and go from there.
Speaker 1: Do you have a nagging issue that you want to address,
Speaker 1: What will your starting point be? You can tell me
Speaker 1: about it at Before Breakfast Podcast at iHeart media dot com.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
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