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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that you can feel massively more productive and potentially exit a real slow by accomplishing something small.

Indeed, in many cases, it is better to aim small and succeed than to aim big and risk losing momentum.

So when I'm feeling tired, but I'm trying not to just scroll around on the internet, I often read decluttering or personal finance books.

Don't ask me why. These are just two topics that I find mildly interesting, but aren't usually that challenging to read.

Anyway, I know that people who pick up decluttering or personal finance books are often looking to tackle big problems.

Their homes look like something on hoarders, or they're in debt, and living paycheck to paycheck.

Ideally, folks would like to end their decluttering or personal finance projects with pristine and organized homes and with millions in the bank.

And that would be great.

But when you set that as your goal and you are starting from chaos, you are going to have to change a great many things.

And that can be overwhelming.

You take everything out of a closet to organize it, and then life intervenes, and you have to do something else.

And now you just have a messier space, because everything that was in the closet is in the middle of the floor.

In the personal finance realm, things can get even dicer as people do stupid things like investing their limited funds in crypto in the hope that they will get rich quick and be able to solve huge financial problems.

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