Hey, what's up y'all? This is Eric Andre.

I made a podcast called Bombing about absolutely tanking on stage.

I tell gnarly stories, and I talk to friends about their worst moments of bombing in all sorts of ways.

Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life.

Like the time I stole a girl's phone during a set and she dumped on stage and threw a big haymaker punch to my nose.

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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that you shouldn't assign yourself tasks that you aren't actually going to do.

It's better to be honest about what you plan to get done. so you can treat your to-do list as a contract with yourself. In years of talking about productivity, I know some people take pride

in having a lengthy to-do list. There are like a thousand items on it, 10,000, or it stretches for

eight pages in a word document, or it has long and nebulous items on it like write book.

To which I say, that is not a to-do list. It might be a list of something, but it is not a to-do list. A to-do list is a list of

things you actually intend to do in a defined period of time. It could be a weekly to-do list,

or, more commonly, a daily to-do list. But the key thing is that whatever length of time you are choosing, the only things that

should go on this list are things you actually intend to do in that time. In other words, don't assign

yourself work if you won't do it. There is no virtue in putting something on a to-do list and then not doing it.

It is just as not done, as if you never put it on the list in the first place. Only now you feel

bad about it too, which is even worse of an outcome. Ideally, a to-do list is a contract with yourself. When you put something

on it, you are telling yourself that you will, in fact, do it in the time your to-do list covers.

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