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About Progress

Cloud10

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This monthly series features an episode sharing my recent highs and lows, how my habits are going, a Do Something List update, plus what I'm loving lately and my commitments for the upcoming month. I hope this glimpse into my life, my family, my work, and my own self development encourages you in your own journey. Around here the goal is never perfection, just to keep trying, even if in very simple ways. I think you'll see that with all of the big changes going on for me, taking the smallest of steps has helped to keep me afloat and feeling like myself. As always, I encourage you to get messy, too! Reference my DSL: http://aboutprogress.com/monicadsl2025 Sign up as a Supporter to get access to our private, premium, ad-free podcast, More Personal. Episodes air each Friday! Leave a rating and review Follow About Progress on YOUTUBE! Book Launch Committee Free DSL Training Full Show Notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The autopilot order.
0:01.6	Noun, informal.
0:02.9	The strong urge felt at the ordering kiosk or drive-through
0:05.6	that takes over the entire body and mind
0:07.7	and results in a person ordering a Big Mac without even having to think.
0:11.5	Related phrases.
0:12.5	Looks like I've ordered a Big Mac again.
0:14.6	The Autopilot Order at McDonald's.
0:18.0	Surf from 11am, subject to availability.
0:20.9	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:26.7	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:30.1	Hello!
0:30.9	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:37.3	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:41.4	Now that's term time working.
0:43.8	Offered at Amazon.
0:45.4	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:47.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:49.3	Conditions apply.
1:08.6	Hi, this is Monica Packer from About Progress, and you are listening to The Messy Middle, a monthly series where I share some of my own messy middle, so you can see what progress looks like for a real woman in real time.
1:16.5	I always start this episode with the what's happening segment where I share what's happening around the Packer household.
1:18.2	Let me just start by saying the tulips in our front yard are making my life.
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