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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that hard work is good, but make sure it is

getting you somewhere that you intend to go. So I recently heard of someone who, in the words of her

colleague, runs a marathon on a treadmill. It is a striking image.

We all probably know somebody who is always busy, but without accomplishing much.

Maybe you have a colleague who is always stressed and frowning at her computer, but who doesn't

seem to produce that much.

Perhaps you know someone who moves around her house at 100 miles per hour

taking objects from room to room, straightening the same pictures again and again, but without the

house ever feeling tidy enough to stop. Or maybe you have a co-worker who's always keeping balls in the

air for a dozen projects, but strangely doesn't seem to finish any of them.

Maybe you feel like you are running a marathon on a treadmill.

You are going at the fastest pace you possibly can, but you aren't finishing what you want to finish.

Now, in running, treadmills serve their purpose.

I run a few miles on the treadmill when it is icy outside or dark at 4 p.m.

But if you are training for a marathon and running longer distances, this would soon become

quite maddening, to have no real sense of forward motion.

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