WEBVTT - Go with the closer one

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to go with the closer one unless there

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<v Speaker 1>is a really good reason to choose something that is

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<v Speaker 1>farther away. Minimizing travel time can make life feel a

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<v Speaker 1>lot more doable. So a new supermarket just opened about

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<v Speaker 1>five minutes from my home. This is quite exciting, as

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<v Speaker 1>the building had been empty for several years before the

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<v Speaker 1>nearest grocery stores were all ten to fifteen minutes away.

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<v Speaker 1>While that doesn't sound like a huge difference, if you

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<v Speaker 1>happen to have forgotten a key ingredient for dinner, it

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<v Speaker 1>kind of is. Someone can zip over to the new

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<v Speaker 1>place and dinner is only delayed by fifteen minutes, not

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<v Speaker 1>half an hour or more. Now, as a frugal person

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<v Speaker 1>who pays attention to this sort of thing, I can

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<v Speaker 1>tell you that this grocery store is not the cheapest

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<v Speaker 1>for everything my family eats, but proximity is worth a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>I want there to be a grocery store located near

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<v Speaker 1>me and my neighbors. So unless I know this grocery

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<v Speaker 1>store doesn't have something I want, I tend to do

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<v Speaker 1>my shopping there. In life, proximity in general is worth

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<v Speaker 1>a lot. If you track your time, you will see

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<v Speaker 1>that a lot of any given day is going to

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<v Speaker 1>be spent getting from one place to another, to work,

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<v Speaker 1>to your kids' schools, to the grocery store, to kid activities,

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<v Speaker 1>to your house of worship, or to another family member's home.

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<v Speaker 1>The difference between a grocery store that is ten minutes

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<v Speaker 1>away verse five minutes isn't huge. But if you go

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<v Speaker 1>three times a week, that is thirty minutes more spent

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<v Speaker 1>in transit. If your kids take dance classes and one's

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<v Speaker 1>studio is ten minutes away and one is twenty five

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<v Speaker 1>minutes away, if you go twice a week, that is

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<v Speaker 1>an extra hour in the car. That second dance studio

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<v Speaker 1>better be much much better to justify it. So, as

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<v Speaker 1>you are figuring out your life, ask that question, is

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<v Speaker 1>it worth an extra hour in the car per week

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<v Speaker 1>to go to this place? I would argue that for

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<v Speaker 1>a great many things in life, it really isn't. Most

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<v Speaker 1>dance studios will teach a fairly similar introduction to tap

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<v Speaker 1>dance class. If your child shows real promise, then you

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<v Speaker 1>can start looking around for a studio that offers very

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<v Speaker 1>specific things. But in the meantime you can use this

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<v Speaker 1>as a rule of thumb. Go with the closer one.

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<v Speaker 1>Less time spent getting to and from places means more

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<v Speaker 1>time you can actually do things in your life. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>this might not be immediately doable, but I'd argue that

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<v Speaker 1>you can also choose to live close to things as well.

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<v Speaker 1>It might be worth trading off some square footage so

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<v Speaker 1>your commute is twenty minutes instead of thirty five. If

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<v Speaker 1>you commute four days a week, that is a savings

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<v Speaker 1>of two hours per week or one hundred hours per year.

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<v Speaker 1>That is enough time to write a novel or train

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<v Speaker 1>for a half marathon. Living close to things might also

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<v Speaker 1>inspire different behavior. If you are five minutes from your gym,

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<v Speaker 1>you might go when you have a free hour. If

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<v Speaker 1>you are twenty minutes from the closest gym, you are

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<v Speaker 1>not going to go unless you have two hours or more,

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<v Speaker 1>which might be harder to come by during the week.

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<v Speaker 1>Because we live only eight minutes from our church, I

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<v Speaker 1>can run back and forth pretty easily on Sunday mornings

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<v Speaker 1>if we're going in shifts for various different things. If

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<v Speaker 1>we lived twenty minutes or maybe even fifteen minutes away

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<v Speaker 1>that probably wouldn't happen. A lot of stuff in life

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<v Speaker 1>is generally good enough. So my local gas station may

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<v Speaker 1>be slightly overcharging me. I am still really happy that

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<v Speaker 1>there is a gas station five minutes from my house,

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<v Speaker 1>so if I am low on gas, it is not

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<v Speaker 1>a huge ordeal to go fill up. When you go

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<v Speaker 1>with the closer one, not only do you save time,

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<v Speaker 1>the closer one is more likely to keep existing, and

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<v Speaker 1>that is a big win in many ways. Meantime, this

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<v Speaker 1>is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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<v Speaker 1>most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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<v Speaker 1>me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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