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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 do some mental time traveling. Picture

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Speaker 1: yourself a year ago. It can be hard to see

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Speaker 1: movement on many things day to day, but when you

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Speaker 1: remember life a year ago, progress can become a parent

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Speaker 1: and that makes life feel more full of possibility. This

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Speaker 1: episode is first airing in late August. Many children go

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Speaker 1: back to school around this time of year, and so

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Speaker 1: the changing seasons and slanting light carry with them a

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Speaker 1: sense of time passing. Children move up a grade and

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Speaker 1: so you see progress in their lives as they learn

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Speaker 1: new schedules or even go to new schools. Adult life

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Speaker 1: features less obvious change, and in many ways that is good.

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Speaker 1: It would be exhausting to change jobs or towns or

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Speaker 1: worse relationships all the time, but day to day all

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Speaker 1: this sameness can make us feel like we are just

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Speaker 1: treading water. We wake up, get ready, get the kids

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Speaker 1: out the door, dial into meetings, and try to empty

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Speaker 1: our inboxes. Collect everyone. At the end of the day, eat,

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Speaker 1: go through the homework and showers routine, and maybe scroll

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Speaker 1: for a while before getting into bed. If that is

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Speaker 1: the case, and it all seems the same. A little

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Speaker 1: mental time travel might help zoom out on a larger

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Speaker 1: time frame and see if you can't see some more motion.

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Speaker 1: I like thinking back a year. For the most part,

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Speaker 1: a year is within the realm of where we can

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Speaker 1: have detailed memories, But eight thousand, seven sixty hours is

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Speaker 1: a large enough chunk of time where lots can happen.

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Speaker 1: Picture yourself at this time of year, a year ago,

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Speaker 1: what were you doing, what was consuming your time? What

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Speaker 1: were you hoping and planning for? In my case, on

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Speaker 1: some days, I still feel like I am trying to

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Speaker 1: get my family situated in our new house. We are

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Speaker 1: still trying to get out of the boxes and do

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Speaker 1: various renovation projects. But then I remember that a year

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Speaker 1: ago we were living in our old house. We hadn't

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Speaker 1: even listed it for sale yet, and big sections of

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Speaker 1: this new house we're not even close to livable. From

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Speaker 1: that perspective, I can see a lot more progress. Perhaps

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Speaker 1: you can see progress too. Maybe you are at the

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Speaker 1: same company, but you've whitched projects or teams to find

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Speaker 1: something that is a better fit. You can think back

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Speaker 1: about the stress that the old situation might have been

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Speaker 1: causing and feel relief at a year's worth of distance.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe you have made progress on a health matter.

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Speaker 1: You have been making a conscious effort to get in

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Speaker 1: bed on time, and as you consider the last year,

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Speaker 1: you do indeed feel more rested. Or perhaps a year

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Speaker 1: ago you weren't eating many vegetables and now you eat

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Speaker 1: salads twice a week for lunch. Good for you now,

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Speaker 1: To be sure, it is possible that things moved in

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Speaker 1: the other direction as well. We can always backtrack on goals,

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Speaker 1: but probably not all of them. No doubt, you have

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Speaker 1: learned something or achieved something in the past year. So

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Speaker 1: take a moment to picture yourself a year ago, and

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Speaker 1: then think about the ways in which you are different,

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Speaker 1: and about any problems that are no longer so vexing

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Speaker 1: or stresses that have relented a bit. I am sure

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Speaker 1: there is something thinking of this progress can make the

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Speaker 1: next year feel hopeful too. In a year, you can

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Speaker 1: be looking back thinking of how far you've come from now.

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Speaker 1: If it's happened before, it can happen again. Mental time

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Speaker 1: travel makes that clear. 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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