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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 mix and match a morning routine.

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Speaker 1: By pulling together a few bite sized components in different combinations,

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Speaker 1: you can make progress while keeping your morning's interesting. Two.

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Speaker 1: I love the idea of morning routines. I also love

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Speaker 1: reading about other people's morning routines. But as I have

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Speaker 1: talked with people about their morning rituals, I've realized that

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Speaker 1: very few people do the exact same thing every morning,

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Speaker 1: seven days a week. People might call something a daily routine,

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Speaker 1: but it tends to happen Monday through third day, well

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Speaker 1: most days, unless they're traveling or something else unusual is

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Speaker 1: going on. I think this is an important point because

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Speaker 1: sometimes people assume that if they can't run four miles

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Speaker 1: and meditate for twenty minutes absolutely every morning, then there's

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Speaker 1: no point. But that's not true. You can have a

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Speaker 1: morning routine, even if the routine looks different day to day.

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Speaker 1: You can have a morning routine that is short some

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Speaker 1: days and longer on others. The point is to have

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Speaker 1: some chosen morning activities that repeat fairly frequently in your life.

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Speaker 1: So if you are having trouble figuring out what you'd

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Speaker 1: like to do every morning, maybe you are asking the

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Speaker 1: wrong question. Instead, make a list of bite sized activities

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Speaker 1: that would help advance you toward your goals. There are

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Speaker 1: lots of ideas to choose, from a quick strength workout,

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Speaker 1: writing five minutes in a journal, reading ten pages in

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Speaker 1: a difficult book, meditating for a few minutes, and so forth.

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Speaker 1: You might also choose some longer options, like writing for

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes or running three miles. Then you can think

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Speaker 1: through your week and consider how you might combine these

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Speaker 1: to make for satisfying mornings. Perhaps three mornings a week

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Speaker 1: you wake up, meditate for ten minutes, and then run

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Speaker 1: three miles. Three other mornings per week you write for

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes in your novel and do some strength training.

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Speaker 1: You leave one morning open to account for the fact

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Speaker 1: that something will come up that's okay, aim for seven

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Speaker 1: and know that six might happen. The upside of this

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Speaker 1: mix and match routine is that you get to choose

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Speaker 1: lots of options. You are running and writing, you are

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Speaker 1: meditating and doing strength training, but you are not trying

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Speaker 1: to create a mammoth morning routine. Incorporating all these things

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Speaker 1: that won't leave time for anything else, you get the

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Speaker 1: progress that comes from repetition. Doing something three times a

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Speaker 1: week makes it a habit. On the other hand, there

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Speaker 1: is enough novelty that the days feel a little different,

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Speaker 1: which can keep life from feeling stale. Now I know

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Speaker 1: that there is a certain force of habit that comes

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Speaker 1: from doing something daily. That is why perhaps the idea

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Speaker 1: of mixing and matching a morning routine sounds a little unorthodox.

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Speaker 1: But again, since almost no one does the exact same

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Speaker 1: thing three hundred sixty five days a year without fail,

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Speaker 1: we can see that people already shake up their morning routines.

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Speaker 1: For instance, they do one thing on week days and

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Speaker 1: another thing on weekends and holidays. If that is okay,

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Speaker 1: then why not very day to day as well. Plus,

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Speaker 1: by doing bite sized components, we can fit in more,

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Speaker 1: which can be helpful for people with lots of interests.

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Speaker 1: Morning routines exist to serve us. The point is to

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Speaker 1: come up with something that makes you excited to get

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Speaker 1: out of bed, and if that looks a little different

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Speaker 1: on different days of the week, so be it. You

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Speaker 1: can still make progress towards your goals and enjoy some

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Speaker 1: variety two. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening and here's to making the most of our time.

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