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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that there will always be emails. So don't spend all your

time dealing with emails or clearing the decks in general. Instead, set your sales and get going

in the direction of your goals, regardless of what still theoretically, needs to get

done.

Today's tip, like another this week, comes from Oliver Bergman, who is the author of 4,000

weeks.

Berkman was a guest on Laurie Santos' podcast, The Happiness Lab,

where he noted that we are never going to be able to do things as perfectly as we can imagine them.

There's always going to be too much to do.

Perhaps it might be wise to admit that, and, as he put it,

develop the willingness to act and to really do

the stuff that matters. Burkman points out that there is always more that feels like it needs to be

done than we can do, an observation that's not new to anyone listening to this podcast.

But Berkman's insight is what comes next.

He says that if you assume you're going to deal with all the things you think you need to do first

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