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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to change the order. Sometimes by shifting the order of things you do frequently, you can make your schedule just a little bit more efficient.

So I will confess that these days I am not usually conditioning my hair in the shower. I just kind of gave up on that.

But years ago, when I cared more about such things, I got frustrated that a lot of conditioners

said you were supposed to leave them in your hair for a few minutes. I would get in the shower,

soap up, and then do shampoo and then conditioner, and at that point, I was kind of just sitting there,

burning time. Then, of course, I at that point, I was kind of just sitting there, burning time.

Then, of course, I realized that there was no reason I had to do my various shower tasks in that order. By starting with shampooing and conditioning, the conditioner would be sitting

in my hair while I was washing everything else. That would take at least a minute or two,

so I'd be getting that time in before rinsing everything off. Much more efficient. There are often

small efficiencies to be gained by switching the order of things. For instance, many mornings I fry

myself two eggs.

Eggs fry better if the pan is heated first.

I used to pull the eggs out of the fridge first because, hey, the task is frying eggs,

so it seemed like pulling the eggs out should be the first step.

Then I would turn on the stove and wait.

But then I realized that if I started heating up the pan on the stove and then pulled out the eggs from the fridge, it would be hot enough to crack them on there

by the time I brought my two eggs over to the pan. Now, to be sure, I sometimes make fun of little

hacks like this. It's not like if everything else was chaotic,

that switching the order of steps in my egg-frying habit

would change anything about my life.

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