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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to reassess your safety nets.

Backup plans are good, but you don't necessarily need them forever, or at least need the same ones forever.

Make sure you take a good look from time to time. forever, or at least need the same ones forever.

Make sure you take a good look from time to time to see what is still serving you, and what

isn't.

Today's tip, like another this week, comes from Elizabeth Sharp McKedah's new book, Edit

Your Life. This book is about how to live with intention in a messy world.

One of her suggestions for editing your life is to look around your life at your safety nets

and ask what they are keeping you safe from, and whether they are serving that purpose.

Maybe you need an extra safety net, or maybe you need less.

It's hard to know, unless you take a really good look.

So first, some clarification.

A literal safety net is the net below an aerial performer.

That means if the person falls, they won't be badly injured.

Metaphorically, a safety net is something that keeps a problem from becoming a disaster.

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