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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 find your finish line. When you

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Speaker 1: are working toward a goal, let a special event create

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Speaker 1: a meaningful deadline. This will make it easier to get

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Speaker 1: going and gain momentum. Lots of us create vague goals

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Speaker 1: for ourselves. We want to declutter the house, update our wardrobes,

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Speaker 1: get in shape. Sometimes folks who read goal setting literature

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Speaker 1: figure out that it helps to make goals specific, So

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Speaker 1: then we get ideas like run three miles without stopping.

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Speaker 1: That is definitely better than just get in shape, but

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Speaker 1: still it's the kind of goal that is easy to

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Speaker 1: push forward. You would have gone for a run on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: but you know, life got busy. It was humid, or

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Speaker 1: it was raining, you had to go shopping for light bulbs.

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Speaker 1: There's always next Saturday, right, Instead, find your finish line.

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Speaker 1: If you want to run three miles without stopping, choose

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Speaker 1: a specific five k race to train four. You could

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Speaker 1: decide to run in your town's Turkey Trot the morning

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Speaker 1: of Thanksgiving. Invite your aunt to run it with you.

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Speaker 1: Register post your registration on social media to make a

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Speaker 1: public commitment of it. Now you have an authentic deadline.

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Speaker 1: You have a reason. You'll need to be able to

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Speaker 1: run three miles without stopping by a specific date. It

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Speaker 1: will be much more motivating to work towards that goal.

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Speaker 1: F Ending your finish line can work for other aspects

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Speaker 1: of life beyond races. Maybe you feel like your work

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Speaker 1: wardrobe is kind of fromp Maybe your workplace has dictated

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Speaker 1: that people need to be back in the office three

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Speaker 1: days a week by January three. Well, there's your finish line.

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Speaker 1: You will create a sophisticated and flattering wardrobe that makes

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Speaker 1: you feel your best by January three. If you want

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Speaker 1: to declutter your house or redecorate your dining room, invite

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Speaker 1: your relatives to Thanksgiving dinner at your place. Now you've

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Speaker 1: got a real deadline of late November to get it

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Speaker 1: all done. You could even throw a party just to

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Speaker 1: give yourself a finish line for getting your home looking

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Speaker 1: its best. Do you think you could have everything spiffed

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Speaker 1: up in a month, then invite friends for a party

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Speaker 1: one month from today. It becomes fun to tackle those

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Speaker 1: nagging tasks when the finish line is a gathering with

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Speaker 1: friends in a home that you are proud of. It

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Speaker 1: is easier to stay motivated when you find a finish

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Speaker 1: line because the goal and the deadline no longer feel arbitrary.

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Speaker 1: You are working towards something real and specific that you

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Speaker 1: care about, and that is a great reason to keep going.

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Speaker 1: So today, consider whether there is a goal that you

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Speaker 1: would like to make progress on. Can you find or

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Speaker 1: create an authentic deadline for your efforts. If you find

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Speaker 1: a finish line for one of your goals, I would

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Speaker 1: love to hear about it. You can reach me at

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Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vander Kim dot com. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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