WEBVTT - Today is a good day for getting started

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Today's tip is that getting started on pursuing a goal

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<v Speaker 2>can be hard, but once you have taken even a

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<v Speaker 2>baby step, sticking with your goal pursuit make it easier.

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<v Speaker 2>So gently invite yourself to start and watch your goal

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<v Speaker 2>get rolling from there. Today's tip comes from psychology professor

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<v Speaker 2>Johanna pets and the Character Lab newsletter. As Pete explains,

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<v Speaker 2>it's often harder to get started than to keep going

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<v Speaker 2>on a task, and the closer you get to achieving

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<v Speaker 2>a goal, the easier it gets. So you could argue

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<v Speaker 2>that the hardest part of reaching a goal is getting started.

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<v Speaker 2>Given that, she advises making it easier to begin your

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<v Speaker 2>goal pursuit by accepting even a small step as an

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<v Speaker 2>adequate start. She suggests telling yourself today is a good

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<v Speaker 2>day for getting started. That phrase, today is a good

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<v Speaker 2>day for getting started, and the freedom to take a

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<v Speaker 2>small step are very encouraging. There are times when setting

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<v Speaker 2>ambitious goals and flying out of the starting gate can

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<v Speaker 2>be helpful, but when your schedule or your spirits means

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<v Speaker 2>a fast start is not doable. Accepting and celebrating even

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<v Speaker 2>little steps can be a way of making some progress

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<v Speaker 2>when you might not begin at all if the first

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<v Speaker 2>step seem daunting. Maybe you need to prepare for a

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<v Speaker 2>big moved, but you can't bear to face packing up

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<v Speaker 2>your closet, much less the entire basement. Today is a

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<v Speaker 2>good day for getting started, and getting started might mean

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<v Speaker 2>just procuring packing supplies, or maybe even just some tape.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe you want to get fit, even though you haven't

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<v Speaker 2>exercise since your last baby was born six years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>Today is a good day for getting started, perhaps by

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<v Speaker 2>downloading the couch to five k app or even just

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<v Speaker 2>going for a ten minute walk. Maybe you want to

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<v Speaker 2>find a new job. Today is a good day for

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<v Speaker 2>getting started, so you could decide to review your most

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<v Speaker 2>recent resume and identify content that you want to add

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<v Speaker 2>when you update it. Once you've taken that first step,

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<v Speaker 2>you can continue to encourage your progress with gentle invitations

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<v Speaker 2>to take doable next steps. As Pete suggests, you might

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<v Speaker 2>say today is a good day to get started on

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<v Speaker 2>step two, but the point is simply to do something today.

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<v Speaker 2>If most things get easier over time, than what you

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<v Speaker 2>do today is helping towards your bigger goals. As long

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<v Speaker 2>as you choose to do something today, you can choose

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<v Speaker 2>to do something on all the other today's. But no

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<v Speaker 2>need to worry about that just yet. Just knowing today

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<v Speaker 2>is good is fine. In the meantime, This is Laura.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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<v Speaker 2>our time.

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