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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 sometimes we overthink things. If there is

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Speaker 1: something you need to do and you have been putting

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Speaker 1: it off, you could just do it now and then

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Speaker 1: you would be on the other side of it, and

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Speaker 1: wouldn't that feel amazing? So I will start this podcast

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Speaker 1: by saying that I am normally a big fan of

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Speaker 1: batching little tasks. Generally it is not efficient to do

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Speaker 1: little things like paying bills, responding to invitations, and filing paperwork.

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Speaker 1: Whenever these things occur to you, you will feel pulled

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Speaker 1: in a million directions and like you are never getting

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Speaker 1: anything that matters done. Best to batch the little things

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Speaker 1: during one lower energy time and preserve your best, most

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Speaker 1: energetic times for other things. But sometimes we really start

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Speaker 1: to put certain tasks off. I have been guilty of

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Speaker 1: not wanting to send an email or make a call

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Speaker 1: that I know will disappoint someone, or I need to

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Speaker 1: call customer service about a problem and whoever wants to

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Speaker 1: do that. The other day I needed to go to

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Speaker 1: the pediatrician to drop off some forms that needed to

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Speaker 1: be signed and then they did that quite quickly, so

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Speaker 1: I had to go back to pick them up, and

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Speaker 1: I was kind of hemming and hawing about when would

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Speaker 1: be the right time to go do this errand, but

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Speaker 1: then I realized that I didn't have anything scheduled for

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Speaker 1: the next forty five minutes or so, so why not

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Speaker 1: just do it now? These tasks tend not to be fun,

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Speaker 1: but if they have to be done, then they have

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Speaker 1: to be done. You can try to find a perfect time,

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Speaker 1: but there is never going to be a perfect time

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Speaker 1: to call customer service, tell a vendor you're not going

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Speaker 1: to be using them any more, or ask your contractor

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Speaker 1: to come back to reduce something. So here's an idea.

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Speaker 1: Just do it now. If you are in the car

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Speaker 1: well after you pull into the parking lot at work,

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Speaker 1: do the thing. Then, if you are listening to this

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Speaker 1: at home while folding laundry, stop folding laundry and get

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Speaker 1: this thing over with. It won't be enjoyable, but once

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Speaker 1: you do it, it will be done and it won't

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Speaker 1: be hanging over your head for any more time. The

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Speaker 1: longer these unpleasant tasks linger on a to do list,

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Speaker 1: the more psychological power they start to have. You start

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Speaker 1: thinking through hypothetical ways the conversation might go. Well, better

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Speaker 1: to spend that mental energy having the actual conversation right.

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Speaker 1: If you do it now, most likely in a very

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Speaker 1: short amount of time you will be on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the experience, and honestly, that is a much

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Speaker 1: better place to be. So how about just doing it now?

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Speaker 1: Things won't be different in an hour or tomorrow or

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Speaker 1: on Monday morning. If there really is never going to

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Speaker 1: be a perfect time, now just might be as good

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Speaker 1: a time as Eddie. 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. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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