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 that micro adventures make downtime more fun. Real
Speaker 1: time management masters know how to make even bits of
Speaker 1: time confetti feel memorable. So my other podcast, Best of
Speaker 1: Both Worlds, has a Patreon community where we meet virtually
Speaker 1: once a month for a discussion. Had a recent one
Speaker 1: we discussed adventures and how to build more into our lives.
Speaker 1: Now everyone knows how to take a vacation, but it
Speaker 1: was a little harder to come up with ideas for
Speaker 1: adventures you could do without leaving home, or adventures that
Speaker 1: would take the thirty minutes or less. But those are
Speaker 1: far more regular scenarios than flying to the Bahamas. Many
Speaker 1: of us wind up with times when we probably aren't
Speaker 1: going anywhere or else we don't have a ton of time,
Speaker 1: but we would rather not sit there scrolling around on
Speaker 1: our phones seeing this time disappear into nothingness. So why
Speaker 1: not brainstorm a few microadventures? Make a list with these
Speaker 1: two categories at home and then less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: There will probably be some overlap between the two, but
Speaker 1: also some separate things as well. For instance, in thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: I could make a quit stop by my local library,
Speaker 1: or let the kids bike down the street to a
Speaker 1: neighbor's house where they have this really awesome swing. In
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, I could go walk around a nearby farm
Speaker 1: that has been turned into a meadow and trails at home,
Speaker 1: suggests some other ideas. A few people recalled doing taste
Speaker 1: tests of different categories of food. Maybe it's apples or
Speaker 1: different kinds of chicken nuggets. Maybe, if we're dealing with adults,
Speaker 1: it's tasting a wine flight with three different wines from
Speaker 1: the same region of New Zealand. There might be seasonal festivities,
Speaker 1: like wrapping a person up in green paper and then
Speaker 1: decorating them as a Christmas tree. A new baking project
Speaker 1: could be an adventure with the upside of potentially producing
Speaker 1: something tasty at the end. If you can go outside,
Speaker 1: maybe you could climb a tree. No, not just your kids,
Speaker 1: maybe you two. Maybe you use your outdoor fire pit
Speaker 1: or light a campfire and toast marshmallows. Maybe you tell
Speaker 1: ghost stories. Maybe you make a collage from a lot
Speaker 1: of old magazines. If you want to be more fancy,
Speaker 1: you could call it a vision board In any case,
Speaker 1: I am sure if you think about it and ask
Speaker 1: family members and get ideas from friends, you can come
Speaker 1: up with a handful of items for each list. Remember
Speaker 1: those lists are at home and less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: What adventures could you have? Then, as you are going
Speaker 1: about your day and see a spot of time, you
Speaker 1: can put one of these adventures in. Just because you
Speaker 1: are home on a Tuesday night doesn't mean you need
Speaker 1: to count the hours until bedtime. This little spot might
Speaker 1: be ripe for a microadventure. You just need to put
Speaker 1: a little thought into it and you can make life
Speaker 1: a lot more interesting in the meantime. This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've
Speaker 1: got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at
Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a
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