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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Do the tough stuff first

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The case for just getting it over with

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0:00.0

Get emotional with me, Radi de Lucia, in my new podcast, a really good cry.

0:04.4

We're going to be talking with some of my best friends.

0:06.5

I didn't know we were going to go there on me.

0:08.8

People that I admire.

0:11.5

When we say listen to your body, really tune in what's going on.

0:15.0

Authors of books that have changed my life.

0:17.0

Now you're talking about sympathy, which is different than empathy, right?

0:20.0

Right. Never forget, it's okay to cry as long as you make it a really good one.

0:25.0

Listen to a really good cry with Radi DiLeukya on the I Heart Radio app.

0:30.0

Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:40.0

Good morning, this is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. This is the third episode in my five-part series on procrastination, a topic we're studying all this week.

0:53.0

Today's tip is to do the tough stuff first.

0:57.0

If you spend a lot of time on the internet,

1:00.0

you'll soon find many quotes attributed to Mark Twain.

1:04.8

I spent a year as a fact-checker early in my career, and I can tell you, almost all these

1:09.5

attributions are false.

1:12.2

It's pretty clear that Mark Twain did not write that if you eat a live frog

1:15.4

first thing in the morning that will be the worst thing to happen to you all day.

1:18.6

But one reason we like to repeat this phrase and attribute it to a wise man like Mark Twain

1:25.2

is that it's a colorful way of pointing out a truth.

1:28.6

If you need to do something difficult, putting it off doesn't solve the problem. In fact, it makes it worse because the

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