WEBVTT - What have you forgotten?

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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 consider whether there are any priorities

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<v Speaker 1>in your life that you've let slide in recent months.

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<v Speaker 1>If so, now is a great time to consider if

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<v Speaker 1>you'd like to pick them back up again, even if

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<v Speaker 1>it needs to be in a different form. Was quite

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<v Speaker 1>the year, and obviously the human toll of the coronavirus

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<v Speaker 1>has been heart wrenchingly massive. It's also been a disruption

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<v Speaker 1>to daily life. There is remote work in virtual school.

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<v Speaker 1>Many of us can't go to the gym or even

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<v Speaker 1>grocery stores as freely as before. New schedules mean we

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<v Speaker 1>have a different rhythm to our days. Since many habits,

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<v Speaker 1>both positive and negative, root themselves in daily circumstances, all

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<v Speaker 1>this change means that habits or routines you consciously built

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<v Speaker 1>may have fallen by the wayside. Maybe your gem closed

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<v Speaker 1>and you started exercising outside until the heat of the

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<v Speaker 1>summer descended and you just couldn't make it work. Once

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<v Speaker 1>you stopped for a while, you stopped thinking about exercise,

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<v Speaker 1>and here it is the dead of winter with the

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<v Speaker 1>habit still gone. I used to go to church every week,

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<v Speaker 1>and I tried to make my family go as often

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<v Speaker 1>as possible. Then services went virtual. I made my kids

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<v Speaker 1>watch Zoom for a while, and then I realized it

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<v Speaker 1>was all I could do to keep them doing virtual

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<v Speaker 1>school during the week. They needed time off Zoom over

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<v Speaker 1>the weekends. And so like that, we're out of the habit.

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<v Speaker 1>Back in March, we thought this interruption to our lives

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<v Speaker 1>would last just a few weeks. I recently went back

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<v Speaker 1>in my church building and saw the signs and the

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<v Speaker 1>are aloft telling us the hymns for that Sunday in

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<v Speaker 1>early March. It's like an artifact unearthed from an ancient civilization,

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<v Speaker 1>because here we are ten months in and our daily

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<v Speaker 1>lives aren't going to look anything like they looked in

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<v Speaker 1>early March anytime soon. But given that this is true,

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<v Speaker 1>now in the new year is as good a time

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<v Speaker 1>as any to think through the various logistical things in

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<v Speaker 1>your life that your old schedule supported but that your

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<v Speaker 1>new one doesn't. Are you doing everything you need to

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<v Speaker 1>make sure that nothing you want to maintain has fallen

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<v Speaker 1>to the wayside, If there's anything you've forgotten that you

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<v Speaker 1>want to add back in make a plan. The same

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<v Speaker 1>approaches you would use for forming a new habit can

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<v Speaker 1>be helpful for restarting an old one, like starting small

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<v Speaker 1>and connecting the habit to something that's already happening regularly.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, on the other hand, there may be things

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<v Speaker 1>that you've forgotten about that it turns out aren't really priorities.

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<v Speaker 1>That habit of driving through a coffee shop every morning

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<v Speaker 1>on your way to work, well, if you don't miss it,

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<v Speaker 1>why at it back? Or that weekly meeting with your

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<v Speaker 1>team that seemed indispensable until you didn't have it and

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<v Speaker 1>didn't replace it with anything else when you went remote.

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds like maybe it was dispensable after all. You may

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<v Speaker 1>have had routines or habits that needed interruption. If you

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<v Speaker 1>don't miss them, maybe they're past their time of usefulness.

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<v Speaker 1>Let them go. But if not, let's figure out how

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<v Speaker 1>to build them back. A ten minute walk in the

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<v Speaker 1>snow is better than nothing. Maybe your own devotionals can

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<v Speaker 1>take the place of services, with the understanding that you

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<v Speaker 1>know you care about this, and as soon as they

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<v Speaker 1>are available in person, you will be there. With the

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<v Speaker 1>zeal of a new convert by can get what we've forgotten.

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<v Speaker 1>We can build the lives we want now, or at

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<v Speaker 1>least do our best, and we can know when things

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<v Speaker 1>change what we are willing to go all in on

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

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<v Speaker 1>and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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