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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 for what to do when you need

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Speaker 1: to devote big chunks of time to something and you

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Speaker 1: don't have big chunks of time, break it into pieces.

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Speaker 1: Doing little bits at a time can be pretty similar

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Speaker 1: to doing the big thing and can allow you to

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Speaker 1: keep moving forward. My husband and I are both training

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Speaker 1: for a fall half marathon, but fitting both of our

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Speaker 1: weekend two hour long runs around kid activities and other

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Speaker 1: commitments can be challenging because the weeks have been busy.

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Speaker 1: I've been taking one of my kids to a Saturday

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Speaker 1: at nine a m karate class. It's challenging to get

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Speaker 1: a two hour long run in before taking him to

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Speaker 1: that when I have kids who stay up late as well.

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Speaker 1: But even if I can't run really long, I can

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Speaker 1: run some. The Saturday before I wrote this, I got

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Speaker 1: up at six forty and was out running at seven am.

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Speaker 1: I ran from seven am to eight am, at which

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Speaker 1: point I collected my son and my coffee. We were

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Speaker 1: in the car. At eight I got him to his

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Speaker 1: nine am karate class, and then I ran for another

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes in that neighborhood, so my total for the

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Speaker 1: morning was an hour and forty five minutes. Would it

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Speaker 1: have been better to run those on five minutes consecutively, Probably,

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Speaker 1: but I figured doing the second run was better than

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Speaker 1: not doing the second run. Breaking the run into pieces

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Speaker 1: allowed me to get a lot of time on my feet.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing the same thing with practicing my new

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Speaker 1: speech material. I've been doing some talks based on the

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Speaker 1: material in my forthcoming book, Tranquility by Tuesday. Since the

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Speaker 1: material is new, I need to practice a lot so

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Speaker 1: I'm confident up on stage. But running through the whole

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Speaker 1: speech takes about forty minutes. That is certainly doable, and

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Speaker 1: I have done it. But I've also increased the volume

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Speaker 1: of practicing by breaking the speech down into six parts.

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Speaker 1: Each part takes five to eight minutes. I can run

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Speaker 1: through one section while running an errand, and then run

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Speaker 1: through a different section on a different car trip. Perhaps

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Speaker 1: you likewise have projects that are demanding quite a bit

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Speaker 1: of time. Uninterrupted time is wonderful when we can get it,

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Speaker 1: but if we can't get it, that doesn't mean you

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Speaker 1: have to give up and decide you can't do anything.

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Speaker 1: With these chunks of minutes, the perfect does not need

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Speaker 1: to be the enemy of the good. So see if

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Speaker 1: you can break your big project down into smaller chunks.

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Speaker 1: See when you can fit those chunks in. Life offers

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Speaker 1: lots of chunks once you start looking. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: we need to fill every minute, but if you'd like

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Speaker 1: to make progress on something big, those minutes can be valuable.

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Speaker 1: Break things into pieces and you might be able to

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Speaker 1: get more done in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks

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

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me

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Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at Before Breakfast Pod.

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Speaker 1: That's b E the number four, then Breakfast p o D.

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