Persistence over perfection

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Most systems will help if you give them a chance

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0:00.0	I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record
0:08.0	hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.
0:14.0	The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.
0:20.7	Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever
0:28.5	you get your podcasts.
0:33.5	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart radio.
0:39.3	Good morning.
0:41.0	This is Laura.
0:43.1	Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
0:46.5	Today's tip is to stick with your systems.
0:51.0	More often than not, you will be better off maintaining a good enough system than
0:56.6	searching for the elusive, perfect system.
1:01.4	Most stuff works if you stick with it.
1:05.0	You just have to keep going.
1:09.6	This is the time of year when even the most conscientious among us may be wearing of the
1:14.5	systems we started in January.
1:17.9	Maybe you bought a fancy planner to hold all your to-dos, but you are annoyed at the motivational
1:23.5	quotes at the top of each page.
1:26.8	You decided to start grocery shopping on Mondays during your lunch break, so you wouldn't
1:31.2	have to brave the weekend crowds.
1:33.7	But you are finding this errand makes a long day feel even longer.
1:38.6	You started using a budgeting app to trim your spending, but now you are feeling resentful
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