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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is that before the weekend begins, consider what your

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Speaker 1: weekend highlight will be. When you imagine your Monday morning

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Speaker 1: self recounting your weekend experiences, what would you like to say.

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Speaker 1: With that insight in mind, you are ready to shape

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Speaker 1: a weekend you will be glad to look back on.

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Speaker 1: If you cross paths with other people on Monday mornings, colleagues,

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Speaker 1: parents of your kid's classmates, or even the barista at

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Speaker 1: your regular coffee shop, it is likely that you will

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Speaker 1: be asked what you did over the weekend. You're not

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Speaker 1: being interviewed or evaluated. It's just light small talk, but

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Speaker 1: it can still feel disappointing to find yourself replying that

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Speaker 1: you did nothing much this weekend, or that you spent

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Speaker 1: the weekend on errands and life maintenance or driving, or

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Speaker 1: worse still, that you have no idea how you spent

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Speaker 1: the weekend. So today, before the weekend starts, think about

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Speaker 1: what weekend experiences you will feel proud and eager to

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Speaker 1: report next Monday. Aim for something fun and interesting beyond

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Speaker 1: driving kids to activities and meal prepping for the week.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to scope out heirloom tomatoes at the

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Speaker 1: farmer's market, Run in a park with red buds blooming,

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Speaker 1: Try a new restaurant, have your neighbors over for burgers,

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Speaker 1: make a photo album from the school year. Read a

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Speaker 1: new book by your favorite writer. Try a new recipe

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Speaker 1: for strawberry pavlova. What you do is totally up to you.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to fit someone else's idea of what

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Speaker 1: constitutes a meaningful weekend. It just has to be a

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Speaker 1: satisfying weekend to you. So consider if there is someone

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Speaker 1: you would like to get together with. Consider if there

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Speaker 1: is something happening that you'd like to participate in. Consider

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Speaker 1: if there is a destination you would like to visit,

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Speaker 1: or perhaps there's something creative you would like to do,

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Speaker 1: or a project you would like to make progress on.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to leave your house or spend a

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Speaker 1: dime to have a meaningful weekend, but you probably need

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Speaker 1: to have an intention and do something to consciously use

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Speaker 1: time in an interesting way. If you do that, though,

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Speaker 1: you will have an answer on Monday morning to those

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Speaker 1: in inevitable questions. And having some little adventure or moment

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Speaker 1: of happiness to reflect back on can lift your mood too,

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Speaker 1: So think now about what your weekend highlight will likely be.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you have that experience, and then you will

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Speaker 1: enjoy Mondays far more. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time.

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