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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 about one way to make big goals

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Speaker 1: seem less overwhelming. You can make elaborate plans, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: you just want to start by starting. I've seen the

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Speaker 1: advice to start by starting attributed to various people and

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Speaker 1: collections of quotes on the internet, but whatever the original source,

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Speaker 1: it's good counsel. All too often people invest a lot

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Speaker 1: of time and energy developing elaborate plans, and there's nothing

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Speaker 1: wrong with this. I love planning. Developing a thoughtful plan

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Speaker 1: for making a change or reaching a goal can be smart.

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Speaker 1: When I write books, I set many deadlines for chapter

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Speaker 1: drafts and word count targets for each week. If I'm

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Speaker 1: training for a race, as schedule in each week's workouts

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Speaker 1: and backup slots for anything that has to happen. Trust me,

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Speaker 1: I am not anti planning. However, I have noticed in

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Speaker 1: life that sometimes we don't implement our plans or we

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Speaker 1: abandon them because the idea of making a huge life

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Speaker 1: change or doing something every day according to a formal

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Speaker 1: schedule forever seems daunting. But the good news is that

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Speaker 1: we don't always need a universal lifelong solution. You can

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Speaker 1: also just position yourself toward your destination and start walking.

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Speaker 1: If you want to exercise more, you don't need to

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Speaker 1: buy books on a thirty day Challenger, sign up for

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Speaker 1: a ninety day boot camp. You don't even need to

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Speaker 1: think about tomorrow. Instead, forget all the expectations of baggage

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Speaker 1: and just try going for a walk after work today.

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Speaker 1: Whatever happens in the rest of your life, that walk

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Speaker 1: will be energizing, and tomorrow can deal with itself. If

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Speaker 1: you want to build relationships with your neighbors and you

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Speaker 1: know if they've made a standing invitation to join them

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Speaker 1: for neighborhood drinks on Friday's, why not show up this Friday.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter if Friday is generally a good

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Speaker 1: day for you or not, or if one of your

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Speaker 1: kids is about to start an activity that will meet

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Speaker 1: on future Fridays or whatever. If this Friday works, go

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Speaker 1: see what happens. Some people really enjoy developing five year

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Speaker 1: career plans, and it's not a bad idea to talk

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Speaker 1: with your manager about your goals. But if you think

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Speaker 1: you might like to be in management some day, You

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Speaker 1: can also just read some books and articles on management

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Speaker 1: and take notes on the major points. You start by

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Speaker 1: starting and figure out the rest of the equation later

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Speaker 1: as you look ahead to the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: What are your hopes, who do you want to be?

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Speaker 1: Rules around, what do you want your life to look like?

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Speaker 1: In his book Atomic Habits, author James Clear rights, decide

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Speaker 1: the type of person you want to be, and then

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Speaker 1: he continues, prove it to yourself with small winds. Those

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Speaker 1: small winds are the things like the walk after work today,

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Speaker 1: the visit with your neighbors on this Friday, or reading

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Speaker 1: a book on management. And yes, the steps are small,

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Speaker 1: but there's something and that's almost always better than nothing.

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Speaker 1: So start by starting and don't make it any more

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Speaker 1: complicated than that. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me

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Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with

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