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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 that magic happens in the mushy middle.

With any long-term project or habit, motivation can dip when both the starting line and the finish line are not in sight.

But I have found that magic often happens in the in-between places.

It is best to be there for it.

Longtime listeners know that I am a big fan of year-long projects.

This particular year I am listening to all the works of Bach.

I am also writing a sonnet every week at the rate of two lines per day.

This episode is first airing in July, and all that New Year energy for new goals is long swept into the past. We are also nowhere near

December where the prospect of finishing starts to exert its own pull.

Long-term projects can occasionally suffer from some malaise in performance.

Let's just say that a few of my recent sonnets have been fairly pedantic.

I rhymed the words eyes and surprise and that wasn't even the worst of it.

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