Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is about how to make an old adventure new again.
Speaker 1: Even if you are doing something you have done many
Speaker 1: times before, you can make it slightly different if you try,
Speaker 1: and hence make it more memorable. Long time listeners know
Speaker 1: that one of my favorite time management rules is to
Speaker 1: have one big adventure and one little adventure each week.
Speaker 1: A big adventure could take three to four hours, so
Speaker 1: think half a weekend day, and a little adventure could
Speaker 1: be an hour or less, as long as it is
Speaker 1: something out of the ordinary. Routines are great, but too
Speaker 1: much sameness means that time seems to disappear. Two adventures
Speaker 1: a week won't exhaust or bankrupt anyone, but they can
Speaker 1: change the experience of time anyway. When I suggest this
Speaker 1: rule to people, people sometimes note that there aren't that
Speaker 1: many new places to try in their communities. Even if
Speaker 1: you draw a radius of an hour or so around
Speaker 1: your home. After a while, you may have tried most
Speaker 1: of the major's destinations. But even so, you can make
Speaker 1: an old adventure new again by doing things a little
Speaker 1: bit differently. First, if you are trying to revive an
Speaker 1: old adventure, can you take someone else with you? A
Speaker 1: museum is different with a companion who might like different
Speaker 1: things than you do and who has a different perspective
Speaker 1: they bring to the experience. If you are a regular
Speaker 1: at the aquarium or the children's museum, asking another family
Speaker 1: to join you will have your kids and you interacting
Speaker 1: with the exhibits in a different way. Second, check the
Speaker 1: calendars and get tickets for new exhibits or events. The
Speaker 1: zoo is a different experience during let's say a food
Speaker 1: truck festival, then it would be otherwise. Most museums have
Speaker 1: special exhibits that change over every few months, or they
Speaker 1: might host performers whose shows will definitely make a repeat
Speaker 1: visit into a new adventure. You can even challenge yourself
Speaker 1: to see something differently. Many of us have our usual
Speaker 1: roots through our usual places, but if you go to
Speaker 1: the left rather than to the right in a museum,
Speaker 1: you will see different things. You might give yourself a
Speaker 1: challenge of sorts, like taking twenty pictures of depictions of flowers,
Speaker 1: or deciding to watch a single animal exhibit at the
Speaker 1: zoo for longer than you usually would. If you visit
Speaker 1: someplace during different seasons, you can experience it differently, sledding
Speaker 1: in your favorite park in winter, but having a picnic
Speaker 1: there in summer. The point of this rule to have
Speaker 1: one big adventure and one little adventure each week is
Speaker 1: to encourage people to spend leisure time mindfully. Often we
Speaker 1: think we spend all our time at work because work
Speaker 1: is structured and mindful. We plan out our time, we
Speaker 1: have intentions. Leisure time tends to be more amorphous, and
Speaker 1: so it can feel like it isn't really happening. Planned
Speaker 1: adventures let us anticipate our fun and be more aware
Speaker 1: during our fun, so the time feels more expansive. Plus,
Speaker 1: we create memories which let us hold onto the time
Speaker 1: far longer. It doesn't disappear into the wash of the past.
Speaker 1: So if you are going somewhere that you have gone before,
Speaker 1: see if you can turn it into a new adventure
Speaker 1: by doing something a little bit different. You might be
Speaker 1: surprised how surprising the experience can be. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
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