I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record

hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.

The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.

Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart radio.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to find your moonshot. A really challenging goal can help you

structure your time, stay interested in learning, and develop your capacities.

And you just might accomplish it too, which can change your whole life.

A reasonable number of companies in recent years have committed to what they call

moonshots, ambitious world changing goals.

The original moonshot was, of course, the actual moonshot, when President Kennedy famously

committed the U.S. to putting a man on the moon and bringing him back.

He said that we choose to do things like go to the moon, not because they are easy,

but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best

of our energies and skills. Perhaps you have seen this in your own life.

When you commit to doing something big and challenging, you wind up organizing your time

and your energy toward those ends. Often, that focus has spillover benefits in all sorts of other

areas. You commit to running a marathon, and as part of that, you wind up overhauling your eating.

You learn to give yourself a bedtime, and you develop some efficiencies at work,

and at home, in order to free up the space.

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