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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Time the little things

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Small inefficiencies may not be a big deal

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0:00.0

13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction

0:05.3

podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.

0:08.2

If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.

0:11.3

Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.

0:14.9

Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.

0:18.4

How do you know? I'm innocent.

0:20.3

Are any of us truly innocent?

0:22.3

Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.

0:25.2

Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.8

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:42.0

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:47.2

Today's tip is to time the little things.

0:50.8

In our efforts to streamline our lives, we can become obsessed with

0:54.9

minimizing or avoiding certain tasks. But instead of wondering how long something takes,

1:01.0

you can set a timer and find out. Then, you can make an informed decision

1:06.9

about whether or not a given activity is worth getting worked up about.

1:11.8

I think about the duration of little tasks every time I empty the dishwasher.

1:17.2

Trust me, I have never liked emptying the dishwasher. I don't know that anyone does.

1:22.0

And before I began studying time, if someone asked me how long I spent emptying the dishwasher

1:27.2

each week, I might have given some ridiculous figure, like three hours.

1:32.2

Some tasks seem to take forever, because they're unengaging.

1:36.6

You are not using your skills. You are not being challenged. These tasks just have to get done.

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