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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to think about how you might spend time when you are too tired to read.

More mindless screen time isn't the only option for filling low energy hours.

And a little preparation means you can spend those hours in happier ways.

We often start the day with good intentions.

Few of us would consciously declare that, given that I only have a few hours of discretionary

time each day, I would like to spend the bulk of those hours looking at sponsored posts

on Instagram.

But as the day winds on, we run out of energy.

Even if in the abstract we would like to read in our spare time, that can feel hard in

the moment, amid exhaustion, or irritation, and all those end-of-day emotions.

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