Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to make an anytime fun list. Get
Speaker 1: creative and write down ideas for fun you can have
Speaker 1: any day. Then when you're wondering what to do with
Speaker 1: your Saturday or a suddenly free weekday afternoon, you'll have
Speaker 1: options and you won't have to waste your free time brainstorming.
Speaker 1: So maybe you have noticed this not so fun truth.
Speaker 1: It is hard to come up with fun things to
Speaker 1: do on command. This is why we often end up
Speaker 1: doing the same old, same old. You can probably name
Speaker 1: your personal same old, same old, and your families maybe
Speaker 1: social media, tidying up, snacking for you, maybe TV or
Speaker 1: movies for your family. All those things can be great,
Speaker 1: but it's easy to find yourself feeling bored or in
Speaker 1: a rutt doing the same things all the time. And
Speaker 1: any time fun list helps you change things up. You
Speaker 1: can enjoy yourself in new ways, and any time fun
Speaker 1: list is more important now than ever. You may be
Speaker 1: having less big fun now than usual, less travel, fewer parties.
Speaker 1: Don't get discouraged because some things you'd like to do
Speaker 1: aren't possible. Instead, use an any time fun list to
Speaker 1: make the most of what is available to you right now.
Speaker 1: I bet you can think of dozens of fun things
Speaker 1: you'd like to do sometime if you put your mind
Speaker 1: to it. Watch a documentary about your favorite restaurant, plant
Speaker 1: mums in your front yard, design your holiday card, call
Speaker 1: your college roommate, bake a plum cake, go for a
Speaker 1: long bike ride. Ask your family to add to the list,
Speaker 1: and they will probably have ideas. To have a tea
Speaker 1: party with the stuffed animals, have a picnic on the
Speaker 1: flat roof above the porch, roast shmell is in the
Speaker 1: fire puit, have an outdoor movie night, hold an una tournament.
Speaker 1: The possibilities are endless. You could challenge yourself and your
Speaker 1: family members or roommates to come up with twenty items each,
Speaker 1: compile in any time fun list from all your ideas,
Speaker 1: and put it somewhere prominent, like the fridge. Then, any
Speaker 1: time you're looking for something fun to do consulted. You
Speaker 1: could even post your anytime fun list on social media.
Speaker 1: Maybe you'll have friends join in to brainstorm ideas or
Speaker 1: to join in your fun. Posting intentions creates a sort
Speaker 1: of accountability too. If numerous people ask whether you've planted
Speaker 1: those moms yet, you'll be reminded that you do want
Speaker 1: to do that and feel nudged to go buy some.
Speaker 1: We sometimes tell ourselves the story that we have no time,
Speaker 1: and we sometimes tell ourselves the story that there's nothing
Speaker 1: to do right now and any time fun list helps us.
Speaker 1: Real is that neither of those stories has to be true.
Speaker 1: We have ideas for fund things we can do to
Speaker 1: make the most of our time anytime, so this weekend
Speaker 1: and every weekend doesn't come and go without us doing
Speaker 1: anything special. So today, spend a few minutes brainstorming ideas
Speaker 1: for your any time fun list. My guess is that
Speaker 1: those few minutes will pay off in a lot of
Speaker 1: fun hours in the meantime. This is Laura, Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with
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