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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good morning. This is

Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to stop rolling

things over from one week to the next. Either do it or be done with it for

good. I know a lot of Before Breakfast listeners make weekly priority lists.

This is smart, but many people soon notice something. As one listener recently

wrote in, I find that I am transferring some of the same priorities over week to

week and never doing them, even though I feel very busy. This listener wondered if

perhaps this was her indirect way of telling herself that these things weren't

her real priorities. I think she's made a good insight here. Plenty of things

sound smart in theory. If we had infinite time and infinite energy, sure, we'd

tackle them. We'd also probably get to them if something suddenly made them

rise up the priority list. If someone said she'd give you $100,000 as soon as you

finished that book proposal, well, I am guessing that you'd get to it. I've

sent that. When we keep rolling stuff over week to week, the most likely

explanation is that we don't really want to do them. And if it isn't something

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