Hey everybody! The time has finally come.
This week, starting October 7th through October 11th, that's Monday through Friday everybody, we are revealing the Iconic 400.
Yes, Bo and Yang and I famously missed our 400th episode here on Las Culturistas, but we are ready to reveal the Iconic 400.
Who is on the list?
Does it matter? No.
Will it be fun? Yeah.
There might even be a surprise or two in there, so listen carefully.
Listen to Las Culturistas on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is about how to make far fewer small choices.
Control what comes in.
If you are intentional about what comes into your home, then you can relax.
Knowing anything that's there will be fine.
As Before Breakfast listeners who also listen to my Best of Both Worlds podcast may remember I had my kids pack their own lunches for camp this summer.
What do they eat? I don't really know for any particular day.
They had a rule that they had to pack one fruit or vegetable, but that was it.
My daughter mentioned a cream cheese sandwich and watermelon lunch as one particular culinary adventure.
There may have been cold leftover pasta some other day.
Not my thing, but it doesn't need to be my thing.
I don't know what they put in their lunch boxes, but I do know what is in our pantry in our fridge.
If we don't have big batches of candy bars available, then they can't create lunches of all candy bars with a single grape to meet the fruit rule.
We control what comes in.
And yes, there is plenty of snack food in my house, but it's all within an acceptable range.
So as long as the adults are controlling what comes into the kitchen and pantry, the kids can choose what makes it into their lunch boxes without hovering supervision.
I think this is important for kids.
You can give them freedom while limiting the downside.
But we can think about controlling what comes in with adults as well, including ourselves.
If you want to cut down on drinking soda, then don't buy soda at the grocery store.
If you have to go out into the world to purchase a soda whenever you want one, nine times out of 10, you will rethink that.
If you do purchase it while out and about, well, great.
It's a special treat.
You can savor it knowing there aren't six more cans at home waiting for you.
Some people who decide they only want to drink alcohol on social occasions make this easier by just not keeping alcohol in the house.
If you are at a bar or a restaurant with friends, great.
That probably doesn't happen every night.
And so it is naturally going to be more limited than losing track of wine pours while watching TV solo.
I have been learning to control what comes in the hard way with toys.
One of my children in particular has an absolute explosion of small parts everywhere.
Sometimes this is inevitable.
We all love Legos, me included, and making complex sets with my older kids is really fun.
But if a child is neutral between different kinds of presents for Christmas, sets with fewer small pieces have some distinct advantages over sets with hundreds of small pieces.
A single doll or truck can only create so much clutter.
One hundred scented erasers shaped like food?
Oh my goodness. Control what comes in and you can limit the cleanup after the fact.
You can even apply this mindset to social media.
A friend of mine recently lamented that she was massively behind on direct messages on social media.
Someone else suggested simply turning them off and directing people to a particular email address from all the different sites.
Control what comes in and there's just less random stuff to deal with and a greater chance that the people who do reach out to you have something worthwhile to listen to.
Making spot decisions on many things can be draining.
When you control what comes into your house or even into your inbox or into your life in general, you can limit the number of decisions you need to make.
You know that everything has met a certain standard or 14 clothes, let's say, isn't terribly offensive.
So within that, people can make their own choices.
Everything is decent and not covered in holes.
So fashion is up to the individual.
Camo pants and camo shirt?
Awesome. There are no such things as clashing colors.
It's all good. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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Hey, everybody. The time has finally come.
This week, starting October 7th through October 11th, that's Monday through Friday, everybody, we are revealing the iconic 400.
Yes, Bo and Yang and I famously missed our 400th episode here on Las Culturistas, but we are ready to reveal the iconic 400.
Who is on the list?
Does it matter? No.
Will it be fun? Yeah.
There might even be a surprise or two in there, so listen carefully.
Listen to Las Culturistas on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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