WEBVTT - The year isn't over yet

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is that the year isn't over yet. Whatever

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<v Speaker 1>your goals, there may still be things that you can

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<v Speaker 1>achieve if you choose to. This episode is first airing

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<v Speaker 1>in late October. If you are the sort of person

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<v Speaker 1>who made New Year's resolutions, you likely made your resolutions

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<v Speaker 1>for this year almost ten months ago, and perhaps some

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<v Speaker 1>have stuck, but perhaps other goals have fallen by the

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<v Speaker 1>wayside or simply been forgotten. Life gets busy, life can change,

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<v Speaker 1>and that can be fine. But if there is something

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<v Speaker 1>you truly want to do, there is no reason to

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<v Speaker 1>wait until January to try again. There are still close

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<v Speaker 1>to ten weeks left in this year. Ten weeks is

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<v Speaker 1>enough time to do a great many things, and indeed

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<v Speaker 1>the smaller quantity of time might give focus to goals

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<v Speaker 1>that might have felt more nebulous back in January. For instance,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe there is somewhere you'd like to visit in the

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<v Speaker 1>course of the year. If you have unused vacation days,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe you can go visit over a long weekend. There

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<v Speaker 1>might not be time to save up for somewhere expensive,

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<v Speaker 1>but somewhere more local or low key could absolutely be doable.

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<v Speaker 1>Look out over the next ten weeks and see where

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<v Speaker 1>it can go. Or maybe you have a fitness goal.

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<v Speaker 1>If you haven't been running the rest of the year,

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<v Speaker 1>you are probably not going to run a marathon. But

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<v Speaker 1>if you carve out thirty to forty five minutes three

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<v Speaker 1>to four times a week to do a combination of

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<v Speaker 1>running and walking over the next two months, you could

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<v Speaker 1>get up to running the whole time. You could sign

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<v Speaker 1>up for a Christmas five k and absolutely finish it.

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<v Speaker 1>So why not check out the local racing schedule and

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<v Speaker 1>turn this into a goal you actually do. Maybe there's

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<v Speaker 1>a book you want to read. Even the longest books

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<v Speaker 1>can be tackled in ten weeks. War and Peace has

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<v Speaker 1>about hundred pages, so that is one fifty pages per week,

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<v Speaker 1>just pages per day, with a day off each week

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<v Speaker 1>to absorb life's various emergencies. You could absolutely finish. By

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<v Speaker 1>New Year's You could even write a book. Thousands of

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<v Speaker 1>folks will participate in what's known as National Novel Writing

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<v Speaker 1>Month or nano Rimo. Over the course of November. They

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<v Speaker 1>aim to write a fifty thousand word novel in thirty days.

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<v Speaker 1>That is undred sixty seven words per day if you

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<v Speaker 1>write every day, or more words a day if you

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<v Speaker 1>skip weekends. Either way, it's challenging, but not out of

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<v Speaker 1>the realm of possibility. If you decide to keep writing

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<v Speaker 1>into December, you could either write a one thousand word

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<v Speaker 1>book or just write less per day. Undred words each

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<v Speaker 1>work day over the next two months would get you

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<v Speaker 1>to a very respectable length. In any case, we often

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<v Speaker 1>overestimate what we can do in a day, but underestimate

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<v Speaker 1>what we can do over the long haul. When we

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<v Speaker 1>spread things out over an entire year, we can truly

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<v Speaker 1>do very small amounts each day and still get a

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<v Speaker 1>lot done. I decided to read through all the works

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<v Speaker 1>of Shakespeare in twenty two I read just three to

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<v Speaker 1>four pages per day, but now in October I have

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<v Speaker 1>read the vast majority of what Shakespeare wrote. I only

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<v Speaker 1>have a few more plays to go. But even ten

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<v Speaker 1>weeks or so can qualify as a long period of

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<v Speaker 1>time for some goals. That's one reason I suggest people

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<v Speaker 1>try setting quarterly goals during the year. Three months is

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<v Speaker 1>long enough to see progress, but short enough that it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't feel overwhelming, and the same is true of two

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<v Speaker 1>months as well. So if there is something you still

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<v Speaker 1>want to do this year, whether it is a professional

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<v Speaker 1>goal or a personal goal, why not see if it

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<v Speaker 1>is still feasible. How can you break it down into

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<v Speaker 1>small steps? How much time will each step take? When

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<v Speaker 1>can you make time for these steps? Take these steps

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<v Speaker 1>day after day, and you will end the year having

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<v Speaker 1>done what you set out to do. There is no

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<v Speaker 1>need to start in January. Absolutely any day can work,

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<v Speaker 1>and today is a good one. In the 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>moose of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to hear

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