WEBVTT - When your mornings get crowded

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I 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 about what to do when you have

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<v Speaker 1>lots of things you'd like to do in the early

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<v Speaker 1>morning hours and you're having trouble deciding between them. Long

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<v Speaker 1>time listeners know that I think mornings are a great

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<v Speaker 1>time for getting stuff done. That's one reason this podcast

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<v Speaker 1>is called Before Breakfast. For people with busy lives, doing

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<v Speaker 1>great things often means doing great things before most people

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<v Speaker 1>are waking up. But of course, for some people, early

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<v Speaker 1>morning hours feel a little bit like being a kid

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<v Speaker 1>in a candy store. I recently got a letter from

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<v Speaker 1>a Before Breakfast listener named Eugene, who asked, what to

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<v Speaker 1>do if you find that the early morning hours are

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<v Speaker 1>the most productive for reading, writing, and exercising, how do

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<v Speaker 1>you get it all in that early? After all? Eugene noted,

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

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<v Speaker 1>Probably not, but I do believe that with a good

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<v Speaker 1>morning routine you can make space for a lot of things.

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<v Speaker 1>The first thing to ask yourself how much time do

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

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<v Speaker 1>consider what time you're willing to wake up consistently and

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<v Speaker 1>when you need to be available for your responsibilities, whether

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<v Speaker 1>that's work or family or both. You might only be

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<v Speaker 1>able to commit to thirty minutes a day, or you

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<v Speaker 1>might be able to commit to three hours. Obviously, they

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<v Speaker 1>suggest different answers to what can constitute a reasonable morning routine.

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<v Speaker 1>This brings us to the second question, are you the

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<v Speaker 1>type of person who likes to do all the things

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<v Speaker 1>every day? Or are you okay with switching off? This

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<v Speaker 1>question may also boil down to how much time you

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<v Speaker 1>like to spend on things. If you'd be satisfied with

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<v Speaker 1>a five minute journal session and ten minutes of push

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<v Speaker 1>ups and sit ups, you can do that every day.

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<v Speaker 1>Writing three thousand words in a novel or doing a

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<v Speaker 1>ten mile run is a different matter. If you have

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<v Speaker 1>multiple things you'd like to do, you might split the

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<v Speaker 1>difference by choosing a different one to emphasize each day

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

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<v Speaker 1>and exercising. Of those, I'd recommend focusing on writing and exercising,

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<v Speaker 1>as reading can be a slightly more passive activity and

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<v Speaker 1>can fit more easily into bits of time through the day.

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<v Speaker 1>You can also make reading your weekend early morning activity

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<v Speaker 1>and thus keep the concept of a morning routine while

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<v Speaker 1>still making weekends special. So if you had an hour

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<v Speaker 1>available to you in the morning, you might decide to

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<v Speaker 1>journal for five minutes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and

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<v Speaker 1>then go for a run the rest of the time.

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<v Speaker 1>On Tuesdays and Thursdays, you do ten minutes of push

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<v Speaker 1>ups and sit ups and then use the rest of

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<v Speaker 1>the hour to write. On Saturdays and Sundays, you use

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<v Speaker 1>the early morning to read and then exercise at some

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<v Speaker 1>point later in the day. That tends to be more

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<v Speaker 1>possible on weekends, or you flip it around and run

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<v Speaker 1>two mornings a week and do the longer writing sessions

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<v Speaker 1>three mornings a week. If you've got a longer amount

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<v Speaker 1>of time in the morning, like two hours, then feel

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<v Speaker 1>free to split it doing an hour on each activity

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<v Speaker 1>or forty minutes on three. If you've got a much

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<v Speaker 1>shorter time like thirty minutes, you might just pick the

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<v Speaker 1>one activity you're most focused on do that five mornings

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<v Speaker 1>a week, but with ten minutes devoted to a second

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<v Speaker 1>choice two mornings a week. No matter how much time

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<v Speaker 1>you have consistency matters more than anything else. Whatever you

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<v Speaker 1>do repeatedly during your most productive time will add up.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't want to split yourself into too many pieces,

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<v Speaker 1>but two to three things can totally fit. In the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>just picture your perfect morning, map out what the time

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<v Speaker 1>will look like, and you'll feel pretty excited to set

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

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<v Speaker 1>love to hear about it. You can reach me at

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<v Speaker 1>Before Breakfast podcast at i heeart media dot com. In

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

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

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