WEBVTT - Makeover your mornings

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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 to make over your mornings. What we

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<v Speaker 1>do before breakfast has a profound effect on the rest

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<v Speaker 1>of our day, so being intentional about this time can

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<v Speaker 1>put us in the right frame of mind to be

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<v Speaker 1>effective with all the rest of our hours. I love

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<v Speaker 1>writing about elaborate morning routines. I may be responsible for

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<v Speaker 1>some of those ethereal tales of pre dawn meditation and

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<v Speaker 1>hikes and novel writing you have probably read, so you

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<v Speaker 1>may be interested to know that I have never had

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<v Speaker 1>an elaborate, self actualizing morning routine. I do have a

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<v Speaker 1>morning routine right now in the sense that I feed

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<v Speaker 1>my twelvemonth old first thing when I wake up every morning.

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<v Speaker 1>You can blow off a peloton routine, but good luck

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<v Speaker 1>doing that with a nursing baby. With five children, my

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<v Speaker 1>mornings generally revolve around getting them up and moving and

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<v Speaker 1>hoping nothing too elaborate goes wrong in the process. That said,

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<v Speaker 1>I do have my coffee and I like to sit

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<v Speaker 1>down at my desk and tackle my top priority for

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<v Speaker 1>the day around nine a m. On the days when

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<v Speaker 1>I do knock that top priority out. I feel on

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<v Speaker 1>top of the world, particularly if no one has been

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<v Speaker 1>tardy for school or forgotten some key item. On the

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<v Speaker 1>days when I can exercise first thing in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>I feel even better. Though I'm also happy with a

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<v Speaker 1>mid afternoon workout as a break. Maybe some day, when

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<v Speaker 1>my life is a little more calm, I'll have time

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<v Speaker 1>for both. In any case, there is nothing inherently magical

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<v Speaker 1>about mornings. You can write that novel at any point

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<v Speaker 1>in the day. You can meditate any time you have

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<v Speaker 1>a few spare minutes, and maybe you should. It will

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<v Speaker 1>put you in a better mood than Twitter will. You

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<v Speaker 1>can read inspirational literature at ten PM, and you could

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

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<v Speaker 1>many people find it harder to do these things once

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<v Speaker 1>other people's expectations kick in. Maybe no one else in

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

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<v Speaker 1>you feel bad if you shut off email for twenty

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<v Speaker 1>minutes to write another two hundred fifty words in that novel.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe when you close your eyes to meditate at night,

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<v Speaker 1>you fall asleep. I get it. That's why mornings tend

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<v Speaker 1>to work. This is time you can have to yourself

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<v Speaker 1>before other people want a piece of you. When people

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<v Speaker 1>track their time, they often see that they do have

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<v Speaker 1>leisure time. It just comes at night, after the kids

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<v Speaker 1>are in bed and the chores are done. Unfortunately, at

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<v Speaker 1>this point people have no energy, so this time gets

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<v Speaker 1>used for effortless things TV, social media, puttering around. By

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<v Speaker 1>going to bed earlier, you could wake up earlier and

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<v Speaker 1>turn this low quality evening leisure time into higher quality

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<v Speaker 1>morning leisure time, when you can do things like work out, create,

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<v Speaker 1>and so forth. In any case, it might not work

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<v Speaker 1>with your life to have a long morning routine, but

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<v Speaker 1>you might be able to have a little one. Think

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<v Speaker 1>about what one thing you'd like to devote an hour

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<v Speaker 1>or two more or two each week. If you had

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<v Speaker 1>an extra two hours, what would you do with it?

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<v Speaker 1>One hundred twenty minutes a week is twenty four minutes

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<v Speaker 1>for five mornings. Set the alarm half an hour earlier,

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<v Speaker 1>and do whatever it is you'd like to do now.

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<v Speaker 1>You might have to figure out the logistics. If you

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<v Speaker 1>are the only adult in a houseful of children, you

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

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<v Speaker 1>But maybe you can get a used treadmill cheap off

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<v Speaker 1>Craigslist and put it in the basement. The key is

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<v Speaker 1>to choose something that you truly want to do, Otherwise

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<v Speaker 1>you won't bother getting up. You might for a few

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<v Speaker 1>days we have the motivation to move mountains on day

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<v Speaker 1>one and two. After that not so much. But if

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<v Speaker 1>you feel like you never have time to write and

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<v Speaker 1>suddenly you are really getting into your writing for twenty

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<v Speaker 1>four minutes, five mornings a week, you will start to

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<v Speaker 1>make progress, and day by day this adds up. So

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<v Speaker 1>think about what you'd like to do more of that.

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<v Speaker 1>Life has a way of crowding out. Think about whether

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<v Speaker 1>you could make half an hour in the morning for

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<v Speaker 1>that thing. Set the alarm a little bit earlier, go

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<v Speaker 1>to bed a little bit earlier. Note how you feel

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<v Speaker 1>when you score a victory. First off, My guess is

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<v Speaker 1>that you'll feel like you can conquer the world, and

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<v Speaker 1>that is a great way to go through life. In

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

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

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