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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to embrace every fresh start. Even though

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the new year is the most obvious

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Speaker 1: fresh start, many of us sees, if we are creative,

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Speaker 1: we can find fresh starts everywhere, and that gives us

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Speaker 1: a chance to change things that need changing. We can

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Speaker 1: learn from previous experiences and make the new experience the

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Speaker 1: best it can be. This episode is first airing just

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Speaker 1: a few days before New Year's Day, and lots of

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Speaker 1: people are setting goals and resolutions for the new year.

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Speaker 1: To be sure, the turning calendar is completely arbitrary in

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Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things. New Year's Day is a

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Speaker 1: Sunday like any other Sunday this year, to be followed

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Speaker 1: by a Monday. No one is going to be dramatically

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Speaker 1: different than they were a few days or weeks prior. Yet,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, it feels different, and the turning calendar

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Speaker 1: provides us with an opportunity to rethink things and sees

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Speaker 1: that new start energy. So silly as it might be,

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Speaker 1: once we recognize this aspect of human nature, we can

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Speaker 1: use this impulse to seize other fresh starts. We just

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Speaker 1: need to recognize where they might be. For instance, if

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Speaker 1: a new team member joins your work squad, that could

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Speaker 1: be a great fresh start. You can think through your

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Speaker 1: processes and see if, in the course of adding in

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Speaker 1: your new colleague anything should be done better. There is

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Speaker 1: no logical connection between a new team member starting and

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Speaker 1: a team agreeing to send agendas at least twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours prior and in their meetings at forty five minutes

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Speaker 1: after the hour so people can reflect and grab a break.

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Speaker 1: But I have seen it happen. If your department is

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Speaker 1: moving physical spaces, that also provides an opportunity to rethink

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Speaker 1: other aspects of your work. Or maybe your biggest client

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Speaker 1: has a new person leading that team that normally works

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Speaker 1: with you. I have seen people adopting a new billing

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Speaker 1: cycle using that as an impetus to renegotiate contracts. Again,

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Speaker 1: there's no real logical reason for it, but it is

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Speaker 1: a clean slate. One change can create a moment for

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Speaker 1: making other thoughtful changes. Fresh starts can be important for

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Speaker 1: family life too. The beginning or end of a vacation

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Speaker 1: and mark a fresh start. For instance, you could introduce

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Speaker 1: a new bedtime routine over the holiday vacation and then

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Speaker 1: keep it through the rest of the year. Or maybe

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Speaker 1: a child is starting a new sport and so that

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Speaker 1: provides a chance to rework who drives where and ask

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Speaker 1: whether everyone is still happy with their activities. You can

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Speaker 1: also let a one time experience become the start of

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Speaker 1: an ongoing strategy. If you and your spouse have a

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Speaker 1: logistics check in before you head out of town for

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Speaker 1: several days and you find it really helpful, you could

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Speaker 1: decide to gather again for a similar logistics check in

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Speaker 1: every week. What could have been a one off experience

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Speaker 1: can become the first in a regularly occurring series. A

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Speaker 1: simple trip becomes a fresh start. By recognizing fresh starts,

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Speaker 1: we are able to find spaces to make changes in

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Speaker 1: our work and daily lives, to draw on what we've

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Speaker 1: learned and make our lives run better. The good news

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Speaker 1: is that potential fresh starts occur all the time, so

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Speaker 1: why not embrace them in the meantime. This is Laura,

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

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Speaker 1: our times. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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