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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that better tools make tasks more fun.

If there is a task you do frequently,

consider upgrading your tools in cases where it makes sense.

The whole experience just might become more pleasant.

I really like notebooks,

especially ones where the lines are small,

the cover is pretty,

and the paper has some tooth to it.

I take a lot of notes on things and make a lot of lists and come up

with various ideas and while it seems silly, I am marginally more likely to jot things down

if my paper is nice. So, when I can, I try to use nice notebooks and pens, and just consider it money well spent.

Similarly, since I work from home, I wind up cooking myself breakfast and lunch basically every day.

It is nice to be able to have a hot meal, and I have used various pans over the years, but I finally bought a well-reviewed one that

wasn't so expensive, but cooks evenly and rinses clean with little fuss.

That makes cooking my eggs every morning feel a little bit more like a treat.

We all have tasks we do over and over again.

Now, no doubt some folks already splurge on the best of everything,

or already know what the best of everything is.

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