Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of My Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that slow progress is still progress. Doing
Speaker 1: a little bit as fine. As long as you are consistent,
Speaker 1: you will keep moving forward. I am writing this episode
Speaker 1: while surrounded by boxes. My family recently moved to a
Speaker 1: new house, which was a four day or deal involving
Speaker 1: a packing crew and a moving crew and two trucks.
Speaker 1: I moved some stuff myself and kept out anything we
Speaker 1: would desperately need in the first week. But still, there
Speaker 1: are probably two hundred boxes in this house. Okay, it
Speaker 1: seems overwhelming, But when I was first telling all these
Speaker 1: boxes up, I had a revelation. There are five family
Speaker 1: members here who are fully capable of unpacking boxes. One
Speaker 1: other family member could unpack with help. The baby is
Speaker 1: off the hook. But if there are six of us,
Speaker 1: that is a fair amount of manpower. If each person
Speaker 1: unpacked just one box a day, we would be done
Speaker 1: in thirty three days. That's just about a month. If
Speaker 1: we averaged one point five boxes per day per person,
Speaker 1: we'd be done in just about three weeks. Now, I
Speaker 1: really don't like living in chaos. Or living surrounded by boxes,
Speaker 1: or feeling constantly in transition. But three weeks is really
Speaker 1: not that bad, and that is at a pace of
Speaker 1: one point five boxes per day, that is definitely doable.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, probably not all of those two
Speaker 1: hundred boxes need to be unpacked. If it has labeled
Speaker 1: Christmas stuff, well, it's okay to put that in the
Speaker 1: attic for a few months. The important thing is to
Speaker 1: just keep going. Each day, do another box, gently nudge
Speaker 1: everyone else to do their box. If we all do
Speaker 1: a box a day, we will make it through the
Speaker 1: piles of boxes in a quite reasonable amount of time.
Speaker 1: The situation looks bad now, but by the time this
Speaker 1: episode airs it should be much better. Maybe you are
Speaker 1: facing down something similarly daunting, cleaning out a house ahead
Speaker 1: of downsizing, memorizing hundreds of facts for an exam. The
Speaker 1: best thing you can do is to focus on doing
Speaker 1: just a little bit at a time. If you have
Speaker 1: enough time, then you actually don't have to do much.
Speaker 1: Each day. You can do a little as long as
Speaker 1: you just keep going. Eventually what seems overwhelming will become
Speaker 1: far more manageable. And what is manageable we'll soon be done.
Speaker 1: Now if you will excuse me, I've got another box
Speaker 1: in my kitchen that I need to unpack. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
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