Before Breakfast
In each bite-sized, daily episode of Before Breakfast, host Laura Vanderkam shares a time management strategy or an answer to a listener’s schedule question. How can listeners make the most of their time, both at work and at home? The mission is to give listeners practical tools to feel less busy and get more done.
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Episodes (2639)
An outfit includes your shoes
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If you like it, buy another
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Many hands do make light work
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Second Cup: If you buy it, will you use it
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Second Cup: Capture your shower ideas
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Take a pocket pause
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Strengthen the story
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Share a subscription
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Mediocre ideas can lead to good ones
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Make the rest fair
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Second Cup: Write your own operating manual
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Second Cup: In praise of book reports
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Buy a box of birthday cards
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Time solves many problems
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Be flexible on the details
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Waste time better
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Give plants as gifts
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Second Cup: It might not take that long
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Second Cup: Kindness cascades
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Make complete plans, even if they're tentative
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Make a wardrobe photo file
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Run into people
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Hand out SASEs
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Try 2-a-days
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Second Cup: Be generous with time
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Second Cup: Build in a little social time
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Capture travel memories on the way home
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Work side by side
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Friends don't always come in pairs
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If you can't get out of it, get into it
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Cultivate a Saturday vibe
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Second Cup: Give them what they won't give themselves
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Second Cup: Aim to wake before your alarm
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Make a to-love list
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Create occasions for sharing
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Make an offer
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You can go a long way in a weekend
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Magic happens in the mushy middle
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Second Cup: Revisit those New Year's resolutions
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Second Cup: Make time for a side hustle
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Useful, beautiful, inherited, hopeful
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How busy people can travel more
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Make time for your athletic dreams
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What stories does your home tell?
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Make silence meaningful
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Second Cup: Get out of a slump
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Second Cup: Commute with a friend
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Don't decide hungry
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Once is an emergency
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One tip for working with you
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