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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 to make over your mornings. What we

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Speaker 1: do before breakfast has a profound effect on the rest

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Speaker 1: of our day, so being intentional about this time can

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Speaker 1: put us in the right frame of mind to be

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Speaker 1: effective with all the rest of our hours. I love

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Speaker 1: writing about elaborate morning routines. I may be responsible for

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Speaker 1: some of those ethereal tales of pre dawn meditation and

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Speaker 1: hikes and novel writing you have probably read, so you

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Speaker 1: may be interested to know that I have never had

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Speaker 1: an elaborate, self actualizing morning routine. I do have a

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Speaker 1: morning routine right now in the sense that I feed

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Speaker 1: my twelvemonth old first thing when I wake up every morning.

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Speaker 1: You can blow off a peloton routine, but good luck

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Speaker 1: doing that with a nursing baby. With five children, my

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Speaker 1: mornings generally revolve around getting them up and moving and

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Speaker 1: hoping nothing too elaborate goes wrong in the process. That said,

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Speaker 1: I do have my coffee and I like to sit

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Speaker 1: down at my desk and tackle my top priority for

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Speaker 1: the day around nine a m. On the days when

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Speaker 1: I do knock that top priority out. I feel on

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Speaker 1: top of the world, particularly if no one has been

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Speaker 1: tardy for school or forgotten some key item. On the

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Speaker 1: days when I can exercise first thing in the morning,

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Speaker 1: I feel even better. Though I'm also happy with a

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Speaker 1: mid afternoon workout as a break. Maybe some day, when

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Speaker 1: my life is a little more calm, I'll have time

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Speaker 1: for both. In any case, there is nothing inherently magical

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Speaker 1: about mornings. You can write that novel at any point

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Speaker 1: in the day. You can meditate any time you have

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Speaker 1: a few spare minutes, and maybe you should. It will

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Speaker 1: put you in a better mood than Twitter will. You

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Speaker 1: can read inspirational literature at ten PM, and you could

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Speaker 1: go for a noontime run if you'd like to. However,

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Speaker 1: many people find it harder to do these things once

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Speaker 1: other people's expectations kick in. Maybe no one else in

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Speaker 1: your office exercises at lunch, so you don't either. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you feel bad if you shut off email for twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes to write another two hundred fifty words in that novel.

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Speaker 1: Maybe when you close your eyes to meditate at night,

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Speaker 1: you fall asleep. I get it. That's why mornings tend

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Speaker 1: to work. This is time you can have to yourself

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Speaker 1: before other people want a piece of you. When people

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Speaker 1: track their time, they often see that they do have

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Speaker 1: leisure time. It just comes at night, after the kids

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Speaker 1: are in bed and the chores are done. Unfortunately, at

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Speaker 1: this point people have no energy, so this time gets

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Speaker 1: used for effortless things TV, social media, puttering around. By

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Speaker 1: going to bed earlier, you could wake up earlier and

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Speaker 1: turn this low quality evening leisure time into higher quality

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Speaker 1: morning leisure time, when you can do things like work out, create,

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Speaker 1: and so forth. In any case, it might not work

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Speaker 1: with your life to have a long morning routine, but

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Speaker 1: you might be able to have a little one. Think

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Speaker 1: about what one thing you'd like to devote an hour

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Speaker 1: or two more or two each week. If you had

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Speaker 1: an extra two hours, what would you do with it?

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Speaker 1: One hundred twenty minutes a week is twenty four minutes

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Speaker 1: for five mornings. Set the alarm half an hour earlier,

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Speaker 1: and do whatever it is you'd like to do now.

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Speaker 1: You might have to figure out the logistics. If you

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Speaker 1: are the only adult in a houseful of children, you

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Speaker 1: probably can't leave to go on a twenty minute run outside.

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Speaker 1: But maybe you can get a used treadmill cheap off

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Speaker 1: Craigslist and put it in the basement. The key is

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Speaker 1: to choose something that you truly want to do, Otherwise

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Speaker 1: you won't bother getting up. You might for a few

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Speaker 1: days we have the motivation to move mountains on day

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Speaker 1: one and two. After that not so much. But if

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Speaker 1: you feel like you never have time to write and

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Speaker 1: suddenly you are really getting into your writing for twenty

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Speaker 1: four minutes, five mornings a week, you will start to

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Speaker 1: make progress, and day by day this adds up. So

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Speaker 1: think about what you'd like to do more of that.

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Speaker 1: Life has a way of crowding out. Think about whether

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Speaker 1: you could make half an hour in the morning for

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Speaker 1: that thing. Set the alarm a little bit earlier, go

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Speaker 1: to bed a little bit earlier. Note how you feel

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Speaker 1: when you score a victory. First off, My guess is

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Speaker 1: that you'll feel like you can conquer the world, and

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Speaker 1: that is a great way to go through life. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's

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Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd

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