WEBVTT - Add something to your morning routine

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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 add something to your morning routine. September

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<v Speaker 1>is a great fresh start time for establishing new routines.

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<v Speaker 1>If you are getting everyone off to school and work

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<v Speaker 1>in the morning, Figuring out how to add something positive

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<v Speaker 1>to the regular run of show can make every day better.

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<v Speaker 1>So this episode is first airing on the Tuesday after

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<v Speaker 1>Labor Day in the United States. Lots of kids will

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<v Speaker 1>be going back to school today, but even if that

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<v Speaker 1>is not a part of your life, September can feel

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<v Speaker 1>like a new beginning. Summer has ended, things are perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>back to their usual pace. Many people use the occasion

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<v Speaker 1>to rethink their routines. If you've got kids starting in

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<v Speaker 1>new schools, or their schools have new start times, or

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<v Speaker 1>their buses are coming at different times, things are going

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<v Speaker 1>to have to change. As one example, my fifth grader

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<v Speaker 1>starts at middle school this year. Last year, the elementary

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<v Speaker 1>school day started at nine ten, which meant he didn't

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<v Speaker 1>really need to be up and moving until about eight twenty. Yep,

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<v Speaker 1>believe it or not, but this year, the middle school

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<v Speaker 1>starts at eight. If he takes the bus well, that

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<v Speaker 1>comes around seven twenty, which is a full hour before

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<v Speaker 1>when he even had to be up last year. Clearly,

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<v Speaker 1>the morning routine is going to shift, but as it does,

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<v Speaker 1>you can take the occasion to ask yourself if there

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<v Speaker 1>is anything you would like to add. The upside of

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<v Speaker 1>a morning routine is that we do it over and

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<v Speaker 1>over again. It becomes automatic. If you can consciously build

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<v Speaker 1>something fun or meaningful into your mourning, it will become

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<v Speaker 1>a part of your life, benefiting from the compounding that

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<v Speaker 1>comes from repetition. So if you build five minutes of

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<v Speaker 1>journal writing into your morning, most likely journal writing will

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<v Speaker 1>become a habit. If you do twenty pushups and twenty

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<v Speaker 1>setups each morning, you will get stronger. If you snuggle

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<v Speaker 1>with your kid or your partner first thing each morning,

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<v Speaker 1>you will probably feel closer. If you text a friend

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<v Speaker 1>each morning, maybe a different one each morning, but rotating

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<v Speaker 1>through a few, you will probably deepen these friendships through sheer,

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<v Speaker 1>repetitive connection. The addition doesn't have to be big. If

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<v Speaker 1>you are getting other people ready for the day, it

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<v Speaker 1>probably can't be. Most of us don't have the option

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<v Speaker 1>of doing three hour morning routines that involving ninety minute workout,

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<v Speaker 1>a cold plunge, sixty minutes of meta vitation, or what

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<v Speaker 1>have you. But a few minutes is fine. You can

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<v Speaker 1>do a lot in a few minutes. And if you

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<v Speaker 1>do whatever it is over and over again, you will

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<v Speaker 1>see results. So think about what you would like to

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<v Speaker 1>add to your life. Think about what might be meaningful

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<v Speaker 1>or feel like a good addition to your day. Think

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<v Speaker 1>about the logistics. Where could you find five minutes? Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>you could find ten, or maybe you can only find two.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think you can still find something, and morning

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<v Speaker 1>by morning, life will start to feel full of possibility.

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

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<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for

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<v Speaker 1>listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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<v Speaker 1>you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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