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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 start Monday morning with something really fun.

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Speaker 1: This stretches out the weekend and makes the start of

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Speaker 1: the work week feels so much better. This tip comes

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Speaker 1: from long time Before Breakfast listener Kirsten. Rather than succumb

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Speaker 1: to a case of the Mondays, Kirsten writes that she

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Speaker 1: plans something special for Monday morning. This way, I go

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Speaker 1: to bed on Sunday night feeling like I still have

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Speaker 1: one weekend treat ahead of me, she says, with a

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Speaker 1: work week not starting until she's actually at her desk.

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Speaker 1: Here's how this works. She sets her alarm a little

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Speaker 1: bit early on Monday mornings. Then she'll do something with

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Speaker 1: the extra time, like making her own latte, complete with

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Speaker 1: foaming milk. It takes an extra five minutes, but it

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Speaker 1: feels totally decadent, like something I would do on the weekend,

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Speaker 1: she says. On the Monday she wrote me, she took

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Speaker 1: a leisurely walk around the block and listen to a podcast.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes she does a yoga tutorial online or she meditates,

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Speaker 1: but anything she notes from painting watercolors, to reading a

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Speaker 1: book to making a nicer than weekday breakfast works. The

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Speaker 1: net result is that her weekend feels longer and her

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Speaker 1: work week feels shorter. I love this idea. Even if

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Speaker 1: you love your job, Monday's can feel stressful. If you

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Speaker 1: don't love your job, shifting from this mindset of time

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Speaker 1: that you control to time you don't can breed anxiety

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Speaker 1: and unhappiness. But either way, you can push those emotions

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Speaker 1: forward until the exact moment that you sit down to work.

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Speaker 1: By seizing Monday morning for something that makes you happy,

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Speaker 1: you can start the week well. Now. I know this

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Speaker 1: is harder for some folks than others. If you have

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Speaker 1: kids who wake up unpredictably or who you need to

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Speaker 1: get ready and out the door, Monday mornings can feel frantic,

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Speaker 1: even with the best intentions. But even so, you can

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Speaker 1: probably seize a few moments for something that feels like

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Speaker 1: a treat. If you've managed to engineer time to take

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Speaker 1: a shower, you can make it more like a spa

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Speaker 1: experience with nice soaps or lotions. You can wake up

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Speaker 1: really early for a favorite workout, or leave home fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes early and stop by your favorite coffee shop, to

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Speaker 1: linger over a cup made just how you like it,

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Speaker 1: take ten minutes to read a good book. The point

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Speaker 1: is to spend at least a little bit of time

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Speaker 1: on Monday morning in a way that brings you pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Do what you need to in order to make this happen.

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Speaker 1: Then you'll go to bed Sunday night feeling like there

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Speaker 1: are good things to come and not just the daily

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Speaker 1: grind waiting for you when you wake up. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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

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Speaker 1: hear from you. You can send me your tips, your questions,

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