WEBVTT - Ten minutes a day is like a week off work

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

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is that tiny bits of time do add up.

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<v Speaker 1>Rather than hoping for a long stretch of perfect time,

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<v Speaker 1>challenge yourself to do a little bit at a time

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<v Speaker 1>and just keep going. You may eventually get at the

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<v Speaker 1>exact same thing. So I sometimes hear from people that

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<v Speaker 1>they are feeling behind on various personal to dos, like say,

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<v Speaker 1>cleaning out the basement or attic. The task feels huge,

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<v Speaker 1>and everything else in life also feels demanding, So people

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<v Speaker 1>say things like I just need to take a week

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<v Speaker 1>off work to get organized. But if you think about it,

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<v Speaker 1>this is not likely to happen. You are not going

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<v Speaker 1>to take a week off work to tackle personal projects

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<v Speaker 1>like this. If you do take a week off work,

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<v Speaker 1>I guarantee you are going to want to do other

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<v Speaker 1>things that don't involve organizing your attic. So instead think

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<v Speaker 1>of it like this. Taking a week off work is

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<v Speaker 1>like saying you want to devote forty hours more or

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<v Speaker 1>less to a project. After all, you will still have

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<v Speaker 1>your regular life before and after your work hours even

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<v Speaker 1>if you did take the time off. So you're saying

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<v Speaker 1>you need forty hours to do whatever it is that

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<v Speaker 1>is weighing on you. Is there another way to find

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<v Speaker 1>forty hours in your life? Here's a little realization. If

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<v Speaker 1>you devote ten minutes a day to something five days

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<v Speaker 1>a week, that is fifty minutes a week. If you

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<v Speaker 1>do that for forty eight weeks, which is just a

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<v Speaker 1>little under a year, you will have logged twenty four

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<v Speaker 1>hundred minutes doing this task. Divide by sixty because there

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<v Speaker 1>are sixty minutes in an hour, and you get forty hours.

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<v Speaker 1>In other words, over the course of eleven months or so,

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<v Speaker 1>ten minutes a day is like taking a week off work.

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<v Speaker 1>If you find ten minutes a day, five times a

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<v Speaker 1>week to tackle a big project, you will basically have

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<v Speaker 1>devoted the same time you'd get in a week off

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<v Speaker 1>work to it without actually having to take a week

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<v Speaker 1>off work. Now, is ten minutes a day as efficient

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<v Speaker 1>as devoting bigger chucks of time to a project. Probably not.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll likely have some amount of startup time and figuring

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<v Speaker 1>out what to do next. But I can tell you

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<v Speaker 1>in your forty hours of a week off work, you

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<v Speaker 1>would have taken breaks and such too. You can reduce

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<v Speaker 1>some of the inefficiency by making lists of what needs

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<v Speaker 1>to happen and choosing things that are pretty easy to start.

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<v Speaker 1>For some days, you could likely spend the first two

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<v Speaker 1>weeks of your ten minutes a day schedule throwing out

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<v Speaker 1>trash and see incredible progress without too much thought. But

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<v Speaker 1>here's the thing. Eleven months seems like a long time,

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<v Speaker 1>but it will pass one way or another. If you

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<v Speaker 1>devote ten minutes a day to a big project, you

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<v Speaker 1>will in fact see a lot of progress. Will it

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<v Speaker 1>be as swift as if you had taken a week

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<v Speaker 1>off work? Of course not. But you aren't going to

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<v Speaker 1>take a week off work, so it's just silly to

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<v Speaker 1>hold that out as the solution when there is another

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<v Speaker 1>one available. If you are willing to be patient, ten

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<v Speaker 1>minutes a day over the long haul is the same

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<v Speaker 1>as a week off work, but the former will actually happen,

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<v Speaker 1>so it might be the better choice. In the meantime.

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

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<v Speaker 1>the most of our time. Thanks for listening to before breakfast.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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<v Speaker 1>me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com Before Breakfast

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