Second Cup: Solve one nagging problem today

0:03Speaker 1:Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to solve one nagging problem today. Don't let something that is not quite right be a drain on your energy. Tackling just one thing means you'll get it done, and you'll also make your life a little better. I am guessing that a lot of us have nagging problems that regularly irk us. For instance, for a long time, the door on my four year old's bedroom squeaked if I was slipping out after he fell asleep. I worried I was going to wake him or this. To get from our front door to the path to the pool, you had to cross a patch of gravel that is fine and choose, but bad with bare feet. That was a problem for barefooted kids coming to and from the pool, who sometimes then needed to be carried. I'd realized recently that I'd bought my seventeen year old a bunch of movie posters years ago, and they were still in the mailers they'd come in. I kept getting junk email from some company in a foreign language, and it was not obvious to me which link was the unsubscribed one, so

1:25Speaker 1:I'd just hit delete and punt it forward, getting more newsletters the next day. Problems like these don't seem like a big deal in the grand scheme of things, and they aren't. But they also aren't that hard to solve. With a little time or maybe a little money, most of these problems could be solved quite easily. So today, pick one nagging problem in your life and solve it. Just one. If you like me, get spam newsletters in a language you don't speak, learn the word for unsubscribe in that language, and find it in the emails. I am guessing you can do this in a minute with Google.

2:07Speaker 1:Two minutes in the can of WD forty that is in your garage can eliminate most squeaks. Of course, some nagging issues are a little more complicated, but maybe not very A handful of planters solve the problem of a painful gravel path. A frame store can frame art or pictures, and then you or someone you hire can hang those up. I'd recommend choosing one of those nagging issues to get on today's to do list, or when you next encounter the problem in your life, just deal with it instead of getting annoyed or resorting to your usual workaround. Now, there's no need to bite off more than you can chew.

2:48Speaker 1:You don't have to solve all your nagging problems today. You're busy. I know the thought of doing it all is probably overwhelming, so don't. But solve it thing. One problem today will for sure remove one sort of friction from your life. Then maybe tomorrow or maybe next week, you can solve another. New ones will pop up, but in general the direction will be right. I'd love to hear what nagging problem you solve today. Can you let me know what you choose. You can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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