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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that you have time to be human.

There is no real point in pretending you are a machine.

If taking a few minutes for something would make you feel a lot better, take them.

So I know we are all busy these days and I talk with many people who feel like they

go, go, go from dawn until night.

Some of this might be circumstance, and some might be self-imposed.

But if you are feeling particularly frenzied, it might help to remind yourself that most small things

that make us feel human don't actually take that much time. For instance, if you want to eat

breakfast, you probably have time to eat breakfast.

The food industry has spent a lot of time and effort convincing us that we have to eat bars or shakes on the go or something.

But I'm not really sure that's true.

I can attest that I fry myself eggs most mornings.

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