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Good morning. This is Laura.

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Today's tip is that small things done repeatedly truly do add up.

Even just a few minutes per day over the long haul can add up to a significant amount of time.

This means that over the long haul, even big projects can become doable if you just keep going.

So when people decide they need to tackle some huge project, let's say, organizing their homes,

they often get into the mindset that they need big, concentrated amounts of time.

Honestly, I just need to take three weeks off work and get caught up.

If only I could take three weeks off work.

Of course, you can immediately see the problem with this line of thought.

You are unlikely to get three weeks off of work.

And if you do, you are not going to want to spend

that time organizing your home or doing any other big life administration project. You are going

to want to go on vacation. Europe sounds nice, right? So setting that out as a requirement

means you stay stuck. But let's say that a project really does require

the equivalent of three weeks off of work. Presuming that the rest of your life doesn't

disappear, three weeks of work is about 120 hours. That is, 40 hours a week for three weeks.

So a different question is whether you can find 120

hours in your life to do something. If you stretch out your time horizon long enough,

I'm guessing that you can. Here's something to think about. There are 365 days in a year. That adds up to 8,760 hours.

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