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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 use

before and after photos and middle photos to track and celebrate progress.

In her book Organizing from the Inside Out, author Julia Morgenstern suggests using before

and after photos of areas you've organized to motivate your efforts.

For example, when you see how much better your pantry looks after you organized it than it did

before, you'll be much more motivated to maintain the tightiness of that area and

perhaps you'll be motivated to organize another area too.

We're all familiar with the before and after photos from home renovations.

The bigger the contrast, the better.

But while using before and after photos is great for fueling your projects,

I think adding some middle photos to the mix

can help in situations where progress is perhaps even more incremental. It can be

hard to see change when you look at something every day, but photos taken a little

bit of time apart can make change far more apparent.

I was thinking of this recently with cleaning out our backyard pool.

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