Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to pick some low hanging fruit in
Speaker 1: your life. Treat yourself to one easy win, and you
Speaker 1: will feel like you can tackle anything. In an earlier
Speaker 1: episode this week, I talked about the decluttering wisdom of
Speaker 1: tackling one spot. Getting rid of all the junk is impossible,
Speaker 1: but you can probably clean out one drawer. When we
Speaker 1: do this, we feel excited rather than defeated. Seeking out
Speaker 1: an easy win works on the same principle. Making progress
Speaker 1: on big goals can be hard, but not all the
Speaker 1: steps are equally hard. There's no reason not to pick
Speaker 1: the low hanging fruit if you can. I was thinking
Speaker 1: of this recently when my laptop informed me that I
Speaker 1: would need to free up some storage space. Now, this
Speaker 1: seems like it would be a big task, which would
Speaker 1: involve going through old files and photos and making hard
Speaker 1: choices about what to keep. Then I looked and realized
Speaker 1: that a single hour long video file that I didn't
Speaker 1: need was consuming more space than pretty much all of
Speaker 1: my documents combined. The video file was gone in a second.
Speaker 1: Now I am not saying that I don't need to
Speaker 1: do some file purging. I probably do, but picking that
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit bought me time. You can probably think
Speaker 1: of all sorts of situations where you can pick some
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit. Getting out of debt can be a
Speaker 1: long and difficult process, for sure, but maybe you can
Speaker 1: buy yourself some breathing room by transferring a high interest
Speaker 1: debt to a credit card with a very low introductory rate.
Speaker 1: If nobody's going much of anywhere, selling an unused vehicle
Speaker 1: is fairly low hanging fruit. On the wealth building side,
Speaker 1: setting up enough of an automatic transfer to your furrow
Speaker 1: one K to get a company match is incredibly low
Speaker 1: hanging fruit free money. It's hard to get lower hanging
Speaker 1: than that. Decluttering can be hard, but dumping broken stuff
Speaker 1: and trash isn't sweep through a room with a garbage bag,
Speaker 1: and it will automatically look better without any tough decisions.
Speaker 1: If you've made a pile of donations, taking two minutes
Speaker 1: to set up a pickup with an organization like Green
Speaker 1: Drop can make it very easy to get rid of it.
Speaker 1: It will all be gone low hanging fruit. If you
Speaker 1: are trying to eat healthier, you can literally grab low
Speaker 1: hanging fruit by putting a fruit bowl on your counter
Speaker 1: and by not buying your particular brand of tempting junk
Speaker 1: snacks at the supermarket. M overhauling your health as a
Speaker 1: long term project, but improving the quality of your snacks
Speaker 1: is pretty easy in terms of freeing up time. Here's
Speaker 1: an idea for low hanging fruit. Go hide your phone
Speaker 1: after eight pm and unplug the TV. You will suddenly
Speaker 1: feel like the evening is endless. In life, we often
Speaker 1: dream up big goals and aspirations, and that's great, but
Speaker 1: something like becoming financially independent is going to take a
Speaker 1: long time. Keep aiming there, for sure. But in the meantime,
Speaker 1: canceling a ten dollar a month subscription that you don't
Speaker 1: use will free up a year in low hanging fruit.
Speaker 1: It's not a fortune, but it's something, and something tends
Speaker 1: to be smart in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Yeah, hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
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