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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to beware solutions seeking problems.

Not every so-called solution will make your life better.

Some just add to your to-do list and waste your time.

Now don't get me wrong.

I love strategies and tactics for solving problems

and making the most of our time.

When we streamline tasks that are not important to us, we have more time for what is.

But sometimes what's presented as a solution isn't actually solving a problem at all.

Some life hacks are just silly.

Take one I saw recently that advised keeping dishwasher pods on the windowsill, to save the time it would take to get them out of the cabinet.

I am not sure that the five seconds it takes to retrieve a pod from the cabinet right by the dishwasher

is such a huge problem that it justifies a solution requiring ugly windowsill clutter.

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