Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Law. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is that it might not take that long.
Speaker 2: When we don't want to do things, we often overestimate
Speaker 2: their time cost, but a little awareness can go a
Speaker 2: long way. So I don't wear a ton of makeup.
Speaker 2: I've always preferred a more natural look, but I've realized
Speaker 2: over the last few years that i feel more confident
Speaker 2: when I'm wearing at least a little something. Last year,
Speaker 2: I did two sessions with a makeup artist who helped
Speaker 2: me buy more flattering products and learn how to put
Speaker 2: them on. So you think I would want to take
Speaker 2: advantage of that education, but on work from home day
Speaker 2: or if the morning seemed rush, I'd often think I
Speaker 2: don't have time for this. Then I decided to see
Speaker 2: how much time my makeup actually took, and the truth
Speaker 2: is that putting on a little foundation concealer, a blush stick, eyeliner,
Speaker 2: and mascara takes maybe three minutes in the bathroom in
Speaker 2: the morning. It is the rare morning when I don't
Speaker 2: have three minutes to put on makeup, so I have
Speaker 2: just started doing it as the default. And it doesn't
Speaker 2: take as much time as I think. There are plenty
Speaker 2: of things that probably don't need to take much time, flossing, fully,
Speaker 2: washing your face, emptying the dishwasher, making a bed, as
Speaker 2: long as you don't have a million throw pillows on there.
Speaker 2: If we don't enjoy something, it's easy for it to
Speaker 2: expand in the mind until it seems like a huge
Speaker 2: time commitment. And we're all so we don't want to
Speaker 2: take on anything big. If you truly don't enjoy something,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you have to do it. Plenty of
Speaker 2: people live fulfilling lives without wearing makeup, and that is wonderful.
Speaker 2: But if you do decide it would be better to
Speaker 2: do something, be sure to check how much time it
Speaker 2: will take. Many things don't take a ton of time,
Speaker 2: or at least don't need to. I am well aware
Speaker 2: that people can spend an hour or more on their makeup,
Speaker 2: but that seems a bit steep. I think this is
Speaker 2: the eighty twenty principle here. A few minutes can get
Speaker 2: you most of the way there, and for an average day,
Speaker 2: that's probably good enough. What have you built up in
Speaker 2: your mind as taking a lot of time? How much
Speaker 2: time does it actually take? You can let me know
Speaker 2: at Laura at Laura.
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