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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is for anyone struggling to maintain a good routine.

Try to figure out when your routines tend to fall apart.

When you know when your routines stop working, you can make adjustments.

So they are more likely to last.

Good Time Management is all about strong routines, but routines need to be resilient,

and they need to work in people's lives.

I hear from people all the time who get discouraged when life just doesn't work

as they envisioned it would. They try to build good routines, but then the routines just seem to

fall apart. If that is the case, I think it is helpful to examine when exactly.

Any particular routine did fall apart.

What happened?

Of course, falling apart implies that the routine worked for at least a little bit.

And if that is the case, when was that?

If you are struggling to build a morning routine,

do you have a memory of a morning that went well,

or maybe many mornings that went well?

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