Second Cup: Solve one nagging problem today

Don't let a problem continue to festers

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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

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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

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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

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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
I'd just hit delete and punt it forward, getting more
newsletters the next day. Problems like these don't seem like

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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

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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.
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

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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

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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.
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

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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

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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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If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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