WEBVTT - Pick some low-hanging fruit 

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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 pick some low hanging fruit in

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<v Speaker 1>your life. Treat yourself to one easy win, and you

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<v Speaker 1>will feel like you can tackle anything. In an earlier

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<v Speaker 1>episode this week, I talked about the decluttering wisdom of

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<v Speaker 1>tackling one spot. Getting rid of all the junk is impossible,

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<v Speaker 1>but you can probably clean out one drawer. When we

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<v Speaker 1>do this, we feel excited rather than defeated. Seeking out

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<v Speaker 1>an easy win works on the same principle. Making progress

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<v Speaker 1>on big goals can be hard, but not all the

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<v Speaker 1>steps are equally hard. There's no reason not to pick

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<v Speaker 1>the low hanging fruit if you can. I was thinking

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<v Speaker 1>of this recently when my laptop informed me that I

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<v Speaker 1>would need to free up some storage space. Now, this

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<v Speaker 1>seems like it would be a big task, which would

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<v Speaker 1>involve going through old files and photos and making hard

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<v Speaker 1>choices about what to keep. Then I looked and realized

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<v Speaker 1>that a single hour long video file that I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>need was consuming more space than pretty much all of

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<v Speaker 1>my documents combined. The video file was gone in a second.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I am not saying that I don't need to

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<v Speaker 1>do some file purging. I probably do, but picking that

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<v Speaker 1>low hanging fruit bought me time. You can probably think

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<v Speaker 1>of all sorts of situations where you can pick some

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<v Speaker 1>low hanging fruit. Getting out of debt can be a

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<v Speaker 1>long and difficult process, for sure, but maybe you can

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<v Speaker 1>buy yourself some breathing room by transferring a high interest

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<v Speaker 1>debt to a credit card with a very low introductory rate.

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<v Speaker 1>If nobody's going much of anywhere, selling an unused vehicle

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<v Speaker 1>is fairly low hanging fruit. On the wealth building side,

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<v Speaker 1>setting up enough of an automatic transfer to your furrow

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<v Speaker 1>one K to get a company match is incredibly low

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<v Speaker 1>hanging fruit free money. It's hard to get lower hanging

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<v Speaker 1>than that. Decluttering can be hard, but dumping broken stuff

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<v Speaker 1>and trash isn't sweep through a room with a garbage bag,

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<v Speaker 1>and it will automatically look better without any tough decisions.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've made a pile of donations, taking two minutes

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<v Speaker 1>to set up a pickup with an organization like Green

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<v Speaker 1>Drop can make it very easy to get rid of it.

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<v Speaker 1>It will all be gone low hanging fruit. If you

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<v Speaker 1>are trying to eat healthier, you can literally grab low

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<v Speaker 1>hanging fruit by putting a fruit bowl on your counter

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<v Speaker 1>and by not buying your particular brand of tempting junk

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<v Speaker 1>snacks at the supermarket. M overhauling your health as a

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<v Speaker 1>long term project, but improving the quality of your snacks

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<v Speaker 1>is pretty easy in terms of freeing up time. Here's

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<v Speaker 1>an idea for low hanging fruit. Go hide your phone

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<v Speaker 1>after eight pm and unplug the TV. You will suddenly

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<v Speaker 1>feel like the evening is endless. In life, we often

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<v Speaker 1>dream up big goals and aspirations, and that's great, but

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<v Speaker 1>something like becoming financially independent is going to take a

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<v Speaker 1>long time. Keep aiming there, for sure. But in the meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>canceling a ten dollar a month subscription that you don't

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<v Speaker 1>use will free up a year in low hanging fruit.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not a fortune, but it's something, and something tends

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<v Speaker 1>to be smart in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Yeah, hey, everybody,

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