WEBVTT - Slow progress is still progress

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of My Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is that slow progress is still progress. Doing

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit as fine. As long as you are consistent,

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<v Speaker 1>you will keep moving forward. I am writing this episode

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<v Speaker 1>while surrounded by boxes. My family recently moved to a

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<v Speaker 1>new house, which was a four day or deal involving

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<v Speaker 1>a packing crew and a moving crew and two trucks.

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<v Speaker 1>I moved some stuff myself and kept out anything we

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<v Speaker 1>would desperately need in the first week. But still, there

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<v Speaker 1>are probably two hundred boxes in this house. Okay, it

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<v Speaker 1>seems overwhelming, But when I was first telling all these

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<v Speaker 1>boxes up, I had a revelation. There are five family

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<v Speaker 1>members here who are fully capable of unpacking boxes. One

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<v Speaker 1>other family member could unpack with help. The baby is

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<v Speaker 1>off the hook. But if there are six of us,

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<v Speaker 1>that is a fair amount of manpower. If each person

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<v Speaker 1>unpacked just one box a day, we would be done

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<v Speaker 1>in thirty three days. That's just about a month. If

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<v Speaker 1>we averaged one point five boxes per day per person,

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<v Speaker 1>we'd be done in just about three weeks. Now, I

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<v Speaker 1>really don't like living in chaos. Or living surrounded by boxes,

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<v Speaker 1>or feeling constantly in transition. But three weeks is really

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<v Speaker 1>not that bad, and that is at a pace of

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<v Speaker 1>one point five boxes per day, that is definitely doable.

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<v Speaker 1>And to be honest, probably not all of those two

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<v Speaker 1>hundred boxes need to be unpacked. If it has labeled

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<v Speaker 1>Christmas stuff, well, it's okay to put that in the

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<v Speaker 1>attic for a few months. The important thing is to

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<v Speaker 1>just keep going. Each day, do another box, gently nudge

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<v Speaker 1>everyone else to do their box. If we all do

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<v Speaker 1>a box a day, we will make it through the

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<v Speaker 1>piles of boxes in a quite reasonable amount of time.

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<v Speaker 1>The situation looks bad now, but by the time this

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<v Speaker 1>episode airs it should be much better. Maybe you are

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<v Speaker 1>facing down something similarly daunting, cleaning out a house ahead

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<v Speaker 1>of downsizing, memorizing hundreds of facts for an exam. The

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<v Speaker 1>best thing you can do is to focus on doing

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<v Speaker 1>just a little bit at a time. If you have

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<v Speaker 1>enough time, then you actually don't have to do much.

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<v Speaker 1>Each day. You can do a little as long as

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<v Speaker 1>you just keep going. Eventually what seems overwhelming will become

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<v Speaker 1>far more manageable. And what is manageable we'll soon be done.

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<v Speaker 1>Now if you will excuse me, I've got another box

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<v Speaker 1>in my kitchen that I need to unpack. In the meantime.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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