1 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: Today's tip is to recognize that sometimes things are easier 4 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: than you think. Sometimes, of course, they are harder, harder 5 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: than you imagined. But when we guess wrong, sometimes we 6 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: guess in ways that make things seem more difficult than 7 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: they turn out to be, and so we can maintain 8 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: some optimism because we won't know how hard they are 9 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: until we try. At some point this fall, I realized 10 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: after some research that the chronic sore throats and congestion 11 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: I've been experiencing might be a reaction to dairy products. 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: So I thought I would try cutting them out for 13 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: a while. And some parts of that seemed easy. I 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: like yogurt a lot, but there are other x I 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: like cereal with milk, but there are other breakfasts. My 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: morning coffee ritual, on the other hand, was an entirely 17 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: different matter. I have been putting milk in my coffee 18 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: since I began drinking coffee at age fifteen, which was 19 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: a while ago. A few years ago, I upgraded this 20 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: ritual to putting real cream in my coffee that thick, 21 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 1: rich cream in my coffee was what got me up 22 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: in the morning through some hard early years of children 23 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: who didn't really sleep. So I was wondering how on 24 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: earth I was going to change that ingrained habit. But 25 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: I tried drinking my coffee black one morning, and you 26 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: know what, it was fine. I did it the next morning, 27 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: also fine, And just like that, I realized that changing 28 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: this twenty seven year daily habit was going to be way, 29 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: way easier than I thought. Now it helped that I 30 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: actually did start to physically feel better. Pain turns out 31 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: to be a powerful motivator for habit change. But a 32 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: few months in I haven't been tempted to explore the 33 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: plethora of non dairy alternatives. Black coffee is great. What 34 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: I thought was a deeply ingreened habit was just something 35 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: I chose randomly at age fifteen and then never questioned. 36 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: Some things are hard, this was easy. Maybe you too 37 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: are thinking of making a big change. Maybe it's a 38 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: dietary change, or maybe it's shifting your sleeping schedule to 39 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 1: go to bed earlier and wake up earlier. Maybe it's 40 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 1: giving up the snooze button or sugar in your coffee. 41 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: Maybe it's starting a new calendar process or a new workflow. 42 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: All of these things would be difficult. They could be 43 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: very difficult, But on the other hand, they might also 44 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 1: be not that hard. The truth is, you just don't 45 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: know until you try, and if you've never tried, you 46 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: won't know. If you don't try because you think this 47 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: will be hard, you'll never know how easy a change 48 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: might have been. I am not saying it will be, 49 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: but if I was able to stop drinking cream in 50 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: my coffee overnight after twenty seven years, then there might 51 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: be hope. This realization has given me a nudge to 52 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: look at other things that I just might be able 53 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: to change if I tried. In the meantime, this is Laura. 54 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of 55 00:03:51,360 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: our time. 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