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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is that before you quit something you felt

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Speaker 1: was important for your life, just try doing it for

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Speaker 1: one more day, not for eternity, but just for one

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Speaker 1: more day. Often that's all that's required to keep going

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Speaker 1: a lot longer. Whenever we attempt something big, it's easy

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Speaker 1: to get ahead of ourselves. Maybe you're training for a

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Speaker 1: half marathon and are staring down a ten mile run

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Speaker 1: a few weeks from now. You're wondering how you're going

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Speaker 1: to make it through that. Or maybe you've decided to

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Speaker 1: meditate daily, but the idea of daily for the rest

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Speaker 1: of your life just seems overwhelming. This can be true

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Speaker 1: for any sort of challenging thing. People who are giving

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Speaker 1: up drinking or smoking might wonder how on earth they're

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Speaker 1: going to deal with years of sobriety or staying away

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Speaker 1: from their first choice method of managing stress. But whenever

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Speaker 1: a long time frame seems overwhelming, it's helpful too narrow

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Speaker 1: the time frame. With abstaining from alcohol, people learn to

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Speaker 1: take things one day at a time, don't worry about tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: just don't have a drink tonight. There's some real wisdom

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Speaker 1: in this, even for activities that are far less consequential.

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Speaker 1: In running, it's one mile at a time. Don't worry

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Speaker 1: about the twenty mile run the mile you're in. Don't

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Speaker 1: worry about how you'll fit in your meditation sessions six

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Speaker 1: months from now, when you can see that life is

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Speaker 1: going to get even busier, just figure out today. Who

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Speaker 1: knows if you'll feel like doing your daily journaling next week.

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Speaker 1: If you can write a few sentences in that journal

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Speaker 1: to day, you're good. So if you are feeling resistance

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Speaker 1: to some new habit, try focusing just on the next

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Do the habit to day. Whatever the

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Speaker 1: minimal amount is required to sustain it. You can quit

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Speaker 1: tomorrow if you want to. Quitting tomorrow is always an option,

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Speaker 1: but give yourself at least a twenty four hour window

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Speaker 1: to think about it. The odds are pretty good that

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Speaker 1: when you push quitting forward twenty four hours you'll decide

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Speaker 1: not to quit. Whatever felt terrible to day won't feel

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Speaker 1: so bad tomorrow or tomorrow. Maybe you'll look at what

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Speaker 1: you've bitten off and decide that it's still doable. Then too,

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Speaker 1: so you push quitting forward another day. Forever is just

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Speaker 1: made up of a lot of days strung together. Eventually

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Speaker 1: it will all seem easier and thus a new habit

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Speaker 1: is born. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me

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Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with

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Speaker 1: that's b E the number four, then Breakfast p o D.

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Speaker 1: is spelled out with all the letters. Thanks so much,

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Speaker 1: I look forward to staying in touch. Before Breakfast is

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