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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 about how to fight fatigue. Many people

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Speaker 1: are staring down burnout these days, but it is possible

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Speaker 1: to make life feel better and more doable, and maybe

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Speaker 1: even keep your sense of optimism too. To say the

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Speaker 1: last eighteen months have been rough is well an understatement.

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Speaker 1: I know. These pandemic years have been especially rough for

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Speaker 1: people who have lost loved ones or who have gotten

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Speaker 1: sick themselves. They've been tough on parents who have been

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Speaker 1: dealing with anxiety and scheduled disruptions. Small business owners in

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Speaker 1: particular have been navigating all sorts of economic uncertainty and

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Speaker 1: rules that seem to change just as you get used

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Speaker 1: to the old ones. So we're tired, but it is

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Speaker 1: possible to fight fatigue. Some of this is just physical

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Speaker 1: self care. Forget the day at the spa. Let's focus

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Speaker 1: on the basics. We're less tired when we get adequate sleep.

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Speaker 1: If you can't change when you wake up, which many

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Speaker 1: responsible adults can't do, then move what time you go

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Speaker 1: to bed. Give yourself a nice early bedtime. Consider it

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Speaker 1: a treat. Going to bed early is how grown ups

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Speaker 1: sleep in. You will not solve the world's problems or

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Speaker 1: your problems by staying up late to clear out your inbox,

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Speaker 1: but you will be better able to solve problems in

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Speaker 1: the morning if you're well rested. Second, get some physical

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Speaker 1: activity each day. I get that you don't have time

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Speaker 1: to go to the gym, but you can always do something.

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Speaker 1: One of my cardinal time rules is to move for

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Speaker 1: ten minutes every day by three pm. Because that rule

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Speaker 1: gets you thinking strategically about the day. You look to

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Speaker 1: see where activity can fit you take charge of your time.

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Speaker 1: Just a walk will do just ten minutes. More is better,

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Speaker 1: of course, but if more seems overwhelming, I promise even

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Speaker 1: ten minutes will boost your energy levels and make life

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Speaker 1: feel more doable. Third, eat like your body matters. You

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Speaker 1: can take fifteen minutes for a meal rather than eating

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Speaker 1: a candy bar at your desk. If you just can't

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Speaker 1: make cooking work, well, maybe now is the time to

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Speaker 1: try one of the myriad meal delivery services out there.

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Speaker 1: Then there the psychological aspects of fatigue. We feel tired

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Speaker 1: when we don't feel like we're getting anywhere, or maybe

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Speaker 1: we even feel like we're making negative progress, but there

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Speaker 1: are a few practical things we can do here too. First,

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Speaker 1: see if you can offload even a few tasks. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know there is a labor shortage going on and

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to hire people. But you might be

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Speaker 1: able to contract with a virtual assistant for a few

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Speaker 1: hours a week. Are bringing a student for a few

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Speaker 1: hours of the easy stuff? Or maybe you could tackle

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Speaker 1: everything with your business or your job if you had

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Speaker 1: a bit more help on the home front. Do you

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Speaker 1: need more childcare, help with the house cleaning. I think

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Speaker 1: I already mentioned the meal delivery idea. Second, celebrate how

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Speaker 1: far you've come. I mean, celebrate any when you can find.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you've got a twenty dollar discount on a regular

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Speaker 1: purchase that is straight to the bottom line. Maybe your

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Speaker 1: business got mentioned on a local website. It doesn't need

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Speaker 1: to be The New York Times to count. Any of

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Speaker 1: this can be energizing when you activate your cheering section.

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Speaker 1: And finally, when things are really hard, you can recognize

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Speaker 1: that getting through the day is enough. Yes, there are

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Speaker 1: a million other things that probably have to happen at

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Speaker 1: some point, but if today happened and wasn't a total disaster,

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Speaker 1: at least on the margins. Then all is okay. You

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Speaker 1: will deal with tomorrow when it comes. How have you

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Speaker 1: been fighting fatigue these last few months. I'd love to

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Speaker 1: hear your strategies. You can reach me at Laura at

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Speaker 1: Laura Vanderkamp dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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