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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 too unplug to get things done. Consciously putting

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Speaker 1: yourself somewhere without digital distractions might help you power through

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Speaker 1: something you have been procrastinating on. So a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: the Wi Fi went out at my house. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of a long story about how this all happened, and

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Speaker 1: it wound up being out for about a week. In

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Speaker 1: the first day, before we figured out some workarounds, we

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Speaker 1: truly had very little digital access. I couldn't load web

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Speaker 1: pages or email on my phone when I was inside

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Speaker 1: the house, and my laptop couldn't access the internet either.

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Speaker 1: This was all frustrating, but there was this silver lining.

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Speaker 1: I had been putting off working on a draft of

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Speaker 1: an article. On Friday. After my internet went out, I

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Speaker 1: couldn't do a lot of other things, and I couldn't

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Speaker 1: pretend to be productive by checking my email a lot.

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Speaker 1: So I wrote a draft. It only took me a

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Speaker 1: few hours when I wasn't giving myself the option of

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Speaker 1: doing a million other things at the same time. Perhaps

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Speaker 1: you've experienced something similar on a plane now I know

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Speaker 1: you can get Wi Fi on a lot of planes

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Speaker 1: these days, but sometimes you can't if you are over water,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes the system is a little buggy or expensive.

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Speaker 1: If it is a short flight, I tend not to

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Speaker 1: make an attempt. I have often assigned myself a writing

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Speaker 1: project on the plane and found I have been able

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Speaker 1: to crank something sizable out by the time we land.

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Speaker 1: We often rely on connectivity to take a break from work.

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Speaker 1: Now we don't necessarily think of it that way. We

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Speaker 1: can convince ourselves that the emails need to get sent

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Speaker 1: and such, and maybe they do, but maybe not immediately.

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Speaker 1: Depriving ourselves of easy brakes sometimes means we soldier through.

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Speaker 1: If you find that to be the case for you,

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Speaker 1: then maybe you can consciously unplug for a bit now.

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Speaker 1: I would not recommend asking your yard crew to accidentally

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Speaker 1: cut the cable, which is what turned out to happen

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Speaker 1: for us, but you could create the equivalent. Put your

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Speaker 1: phone in airplane mode or put it somewhere else. Go

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Speaker 1: somewhere with no WiFi, assign yourself something that is going

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Speaker 1: to take some serious concentration to do. Now, you will

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Speaker 1: probably want to check things at some point, and that

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Speaker 1: is fine. It is actually really hard to concentrate on

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Speaker 1: anything for more than ninety minutes or so, so you

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Speaker 1: might take a ten minute break. Make sure nothing disastrous

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Speaker 1: has happened in your world. My guess is that it hasn't,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully that truth will empower you to try disconnecting

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Speaker 1: more often. In any case, we eventually got the Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi working again, so I haven't had to go work

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Speaker 1: in Starbucks or the library. I can check email constantly

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Speaker 1: if I wish to, but remembering all I got done

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Speaker 1: on that Friday, I am trying not to. It is

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Speaker 1: best to keep these things in check in the meantime.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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