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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is that out of sight is out of mind.

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Speaker 1: So if there are things you want to pay less

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Speaker 1: attention to get them out of you, you will probably

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Speaker 1: find them playing a smaller role in your life. So

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Speaker 1: I am pretty visually oriented when it comes to remembering things.

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Speaker 1: When clothes are in drawers or garment bags, I can

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Speaker 1: forget they exist. I once shoved a pack of sweet tarts,

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Speaker 1: which I love, into my desk drawer, and it's sat

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Speaker 1: there for months. Now. I can eat through dozens of

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Speaker 1: sweet tarts if they are right in front of me,

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Speaker 1: but with them in the desk drawer, it was as

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Speaker 1: if I developed fantastic self discipline. I know not everyone's

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Speaker 1: brain works the same way, but for many of us,

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Speaker 1: visual cues do wind up being great reminders. That's why

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Speaker 1: nutritionous will tell you to keep a fruit bowl on

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Speaker 1: your counter. You'll keep seeing the healthy stacks and so

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Speaker 1: you'll think, hey, watermelon sounds good right now. The opposite

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Speaker 1: is true too. A dish of peanut butter cups on

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Speaker 1: your kinchin counter might last an hour, maybe but a

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Speaker 1: bag of peanut butter cups on the top shelf of

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Speaker 1: your pantry might last for a month. It's not that

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Speaker 1: you needed to swear off the chocolate, it's just that

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Speaker 1: when you can't see them, you don't have to keep

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Speaker 1: arguing with yourself over whether you really want one. When

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Speaker 1: you are busy in doing something else. You won't grab

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Speaker 1: one just because it's there. You'll go and find the

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Speaker 1: candy when you really want it, or you're there in

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Speaker 1: the pantry actively pondering what you want to eat, but

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Speaker 1: not when you're just passing through. Knowing that out of

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Speaker 1: sight is out of mind can help us make good

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Speaker 1: choices easier in other aspects of life as well. Do

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Speaker 1: you have a hard time staying off your phone in

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Speaker 1: the evenings, Try plugging your phone into its charger instead

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Speaker 1: of having it with you all evening long. You'll probably

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Speaker 1: find you spend a lot less time checking email, responding

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Speaker 1: to texts, and scrolling through social media. Are you trying

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Speaker 1: to spend less time and money shopping online? Unsubscribe from

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Speaker 1: marketing texts and emails. You won't see an ad informing

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Speaker 1: you that your favorite retailer is about to have a

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Speaker 1: big sale so you don't have to resist the temptation

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Speaker 1: to go on line and shop. It turns out that

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Speaker 1: a sale you don't know about is a lot cheaper

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Speaker 1: than a sale you do know about. You can apply

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Speaker 1: the logic of out of sight is out of mind

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Speaker 1: to other people's environments too. Perhaps your kids, like my kids,

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Speaker 1: have certain books they like that you don't necessarily like.

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Speaker 1: I am not saying you have to purge the giving

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Speaker 1: tree from your house, but maybe it goes up on

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Speaker 1: the top shelf so the kid only suggests it if

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Speaker 1: they are really thinking about it. The less annoying books

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Speaker 1: can go on the eye level shelves, where they will

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Speaker 1: be chosen more readily. When you tweak your environment, you

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Speaker 1: can make it easier to choose wisely. Put what you

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Speaker 1: want to do right in front of you, put what

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Speaker 1: you don't want to do far out of sight. I

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Speaker 1: am not saying you will never think about it, but

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Speaker 1: you'll think about it a lot less than when it

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Speaker 1: is reminding you of its existence every time you turn around.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: 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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