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

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Speaker 2: This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 2: tip is that eating takes time, not a lot of time,

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Speaker 2: but a non zero amount of time.

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Speaker 1: So when you are building your schedule for the day,

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Speaker 1: make sure you have some space to eat. If you do,

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Speaker 1: my bed is that you will feel better physically and mentally.

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Speaker 1: As I have talked with people about their days, I've

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Speaker 1: realized that so many folks assume that breakfast and lunch

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Speaker 1: don't need to be accounted for in their schedules. We

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Speaker 1: understand that showering and getting dressed and putting on makeup,

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Speaker 1: if you do that, take some amount of time, and

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Speaker 1: in general, we build in time to our morning routines

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Speaker 1: to do these things, standing that one cannot truly roll

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Speaker 1: out of bed and straight out the door. Eating is

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Speaker 1: as much a necessity as showering, more so, really, and

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Speaker 1: yet we assume this can simply be done on the

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Speaker 1: go are multitasked with something else. People will eat a

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Speaker 1: protein bar in the car or while walking to the train.

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Speaker 1: They will take the time to go to a Starbucks

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Speaker 1: or Chick fil At to grab a breakfast sandwich, but

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Speaker 1: then eat it in transit or at their desks. Lunch

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Speaker 1: likewise often happens at the desk, or I have heard

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Speaker 1: from folks who work at home sometimes it is eaten

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Speaker 1: over the sink. So one need not waste the time

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Speaker 1: pulling out a plate and then cleaning the plate afterwards,

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Speaker 1: to which I have to say, come on, Two things

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Speaker 1: are true. One is that eating properly, that is on

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Speaker 1: a plate, sitting down and at a pace that doesn't

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Speaker 1: give you indigestion, really doesn't take that much more time

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Speaker 1: than eating in a distracted manner. And second, you are

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Speaker 1: probably not so busy that you can't take the extra

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Speaker 1: few minutes to enjoy and appreciate your food. You can

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Speaker 1: scramble eggs in a pan in about five minutes and

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Speaker 1: then eat them in another five cut up some fruit

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Speaker 1: or toast some bread while the eggs are cooking in

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Speaker 1: voila our real breakfast for less time than it might

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Speaker 1: take you to stop at a fast food place, or

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Speaker 1: if you do decide to stop somewhere for breakfast, actually

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Speaker 1: sit in the restaurant and eat, or take your breakfast

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Speaker 1: to your office and eat it in the breakroom while

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Speaker 1: your computer boots up, or eat it on the bench

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Speaker 1: outside your office before you go in. You can start

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Speaker 1: your day with a moment of calm and an act

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Speaker 1: that says I matter. This is a powerful mindset shift,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't take more than a few minutes. Same

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Speaker 1: with lunch, even if you work from home, you are

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Speaker 1: worth getting a plate dirty. You can also sit down

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Speaker 1: or even sit outside for just a few minutes, more

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Speaker 1: than it would have taken to scarf something down standing

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Speaker 1: up or eating at your computer while half working. You

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Speaker 1: can have a true break, even if a short one

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Speaker 1: that centers you for the rest of the day. If

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Speaker 1: you work in an office, unless you have a really

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Speaker 1: good reason, get away from your desk for lunch. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that means meeting up with a friend or a colleague

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Speaker 1: for a nice lunch out. Or maybe you take your

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Speaker 1: packed lunch to a park and eat while soaking in

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Speaker 1: the sunshine. Or you can enjoy your lunch in the

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Speaker 1: break room while connecting with colleagues or reading a book.

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Speaker 1: If you get takeout, don't eat your sandwich on the

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Speaker 1: walk back to your office. Find somewhere to sit down.

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Speaker 1: This doesn't take zero amount of time, but like anything,

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Speaker 1: you can simply account for it. Build your morning routine

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Speaker 1: to account for the few minutes it takes to make

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Speaker 1: and eat breakfast, or at least eat breakfast if you're

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Speaker 1: eating something ready made. Build your meeting schedule to allow

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Speaker 1: for at least fifteen to twenty minutes to eat. If

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Speaker 1: most of your meetings take an hour, as in nine o'clock,

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Speaker 1: ten o'clock and eleven o'clock, schedule morning ones on the

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Speaker 1: hour and afternoon ones on the half hour. That is

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty, one thirty, and so on, this means you

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Speaker 1: have at least half an hour built in. I know

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Speaker 1: some people consider it a point of pride to eat

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Speaker 1: at their desks, or that they don't even have time

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Speaker 1: to eat. Look at how busy I am. I can

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Speaker 1: tell you this is a recipe for being starving and

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Speaker 1: distracted by two thirty pm and grabbing something sugary that

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Speaker 1: won't fuel you for the rest of the day. It

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Speaker 1: is penny wise and pound foolish with the minutes. Better

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Speaker 1: to eat a real meal, feel less frazzled, and be

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Speaker 1: more grounded and purposeful in the meantime. This is Laura,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've

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Speaker 1: got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at

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