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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 about what to do when you have

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Speaker 1: lots of things you'd like to do in the early

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Speaker 1: morning hours and you're having trouble deciding between them. Long

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Speaker 1: time listeners know that I think mornings are a great

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Speaker 1: time for getting stuff done. That's one reason this podcast

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Speaker 1: is called Before Breakfast. For people with busy lives, doing

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Speaker 1: great things often means doing great things before most people

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Speaker 1: are waking up. But of course, for some people, early

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Speaker 1: morning hours feel a little bit like being a kid

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Speaker 1: in a candy store. I recently got a letter from

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Speaker 1: a Before Breakfast listener named Eugene, who asked, what to

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Speaker 1: do if you find that the early morning hours are

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Speaker 1: the most productive for reading, writing, and exercising, how do

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Speaker 1: you get it all in that early? After all? Eugene noted,

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Speaker 1: all these activities take time. Can the entire day be morning? Well?

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Speaker 1: Probably not, but I do believe that with a good

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Speaker 1: morning routine you can make space for a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: The first thing to ask yourself how much time do

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Speaker 1: you have available in the morning. Let's be honest here,

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Speaker 1: consider what time you're willing to wake up consistently and

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Speaker 1: when you need to be available for your responsibilities, whether

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Speaker 1: that's work or family or both. You might only be

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Speaker 1: able to commit to thirty minutes a day, or you

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Speaker 1: might be able to commit to three hours. Obviously, they

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Speaker 1: suggest different answers to what can constitute a reasonable morning routine.

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Speaker 1: This brings us to the second question, are you the

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Speaker 1: type of person who likes to do all the things

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Speaker 1: every day? Or are you okay with switching off? This

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Speaker 1: question may also boil down to how much time you

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Speaker 1: like to spend on things. If you'd be satisfied with

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Speaker 1: a five minute journal session and ten minutes of push

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Speaker 1: ups and sit ups, you can do that every day.

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Speaker 1: Writing three thousand words in a novel or doing a

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Speaker 1: ten mile run is a different matter. If you have

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Speaker 1: multiple things you'd like to do, you might split the

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Speaker 1: difference by choosing a different one to emphasize each day

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Speaker 1: while still doing some of both. Our listener, Eugene mentioned writing, reading,

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Speaker 1: and exercising. Of those, I'd recommend focusing on writing and exercising,

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Speaker 1: as reading can be a slightly more passive activity and

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Speaker 1: can fit more easily into bits of time through the day.

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Speaker 1: You can also make reading your weekend early morning activity

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Speaker 1: and thus keep the concept of a morning routine while

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Speaker 1: still making weekends special. So if you had an hour

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Speaker 1: available to you in the morning, you might decide to

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Speaker 1: journal for five minutes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and

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Speaker 1: then go for a run the rest of the time.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesdays and Thursdays, you do ten minutes of push

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Speaker 1: ups and sit ups and then use the rest of

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Speaker 1: the hour to write. On Saturdays and Sundays, you use

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Speaker 1: the early morning to read and then exercise at some

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Speaker 1: point later in the day. That tends to be more

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Speaker 1: possible on weekends, or you flip it around and run

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Speaker 1: two mornings a week and do the longer writing sessions

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Speaker 1: three mornings a week. If you've got a longer amount

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Speaker 1: of time in the morning, like two hours, then feel

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Speaker 1: free to split it doing an hour on each activity

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Speaker 1: or forty minutes on three. If you've got a much

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Speaker 1: shorter time like thirty minutes, you might just pick the

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Speaker 1: one activity you're most focused on do that five mornings

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Speaker 1: a week, but with ten minutes devoted to a second

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Speaker 1: choice two mornings a week. No matter how much time

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Speaker 1: you have consistency matters more than anything else. Whatever you

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Speaker 1: do repeatedly during your most productive time will add up.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to split yourself into too many pieces,

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Speaker 1: but two to three things can totally fit. In the morning,

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Speaker 1: just picture your perfect morning, map out what the time

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Speaker 1: will look like, and you'll feel pretty excited to set

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Speaker 1: an alarm. If you have a multipart morning routine, I'd

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

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Speaker 1: Before Breakfast podcast at i heeart media dot com. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's

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

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