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

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to time the little things.

In our efforts to streamline our lives, we can become obsessed with minimizing or avoiding certain tasks, but instead of

wondering how long something takes, you can set a timer and find out. Then you can

make an informed decision about whether or not a given activity

is worth getting worked up about. I think about the duration of little tasks every time

I empty the dishwasher.

Trust me, I have never liked emptying the dishwasher.

I don't know that anyone does.

And before I began studying time,

if someone asked me how long I spent emptying the dishwasher each week,

I might have given some ridiculous figure, like three hours. Some tasks seem to take forever,

because they're unengaging. You are not using your skills. You are not

being challenged. These tasks just have to get done. And so the tendency is to look for ways to be efficient or to chuck these tasks from our lists.

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