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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 to remember that you almost always have options. You may feel like your

life is entirely determined by requirements and circumstances, but more often than not,

you do have choices. The question is whether you are comfortable with the whole package of what a

choice entails. Today's tip comes from Oliver Berkman's book Meditations for Mortals. Berkman points out

that it is almost never the case that you don't have options.

You don't actually have to go to work.

You don't have to floss your teeth.

It's just that those options come with consequences.

So you have to weigh the appeal of the whole package of the option, plus its consequences. If you don't go to work,

you might not get paid, or perhaps keep the job for long. If you don't floss, you might have

cavities or gum trouble. And these are options. They just might not be appealing options,

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