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 to make this be the year to do
Speaker 1: things you have said you have always wanted to do.
Speaker 1: If you hear yourself saying you have always wanted to
Speaker 1: do something within reason, get it on the calendar. There
Speaker 1: are many experiences that can be easily made a reality
Speaker 1: with a tiny bit of planning and thought. As longtime
Speaker 1: listeners may know, I love miniatures on the shelves in
Speaker 1: my office. I have set up several miniature rooms like
Speaker 1: in a dollhouse, sput without the house. Anytime I am
Speaker 1: near a museum with a miniature's collection, I visit. Yet,
Speaker 1: somehow it took me years to get to the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Miniatures Show, which has held literally less than forty five
Speaker 1: minutes from where I live. I'm not sure exactly why.
Speaker 1: I mean, for several years I'd heard myself saying things
Speaker 1: like I'd love to go to the miniatures show some day,
Speaker 1: but it was never terribly convenient. Well, it wasn't convenient
Speaker 1: this year either. My flight home from Florida was delayed
Speaker 1: on the last day of the show, so I almost
Speaker 1: missed it, but I decided to go for the last
Speaker 1: hour it was open, and when I did, as you
Speaker 1: might imagine, I was just entranced so many little things.
Speaker 1: I wish it hadn't taken me so long to go,
Speaker 1: but I am glad I made it. I bet you
Speaker 1: can identify things you have said you've always wanted to
Speaker 1: do as well. I've always wanted to learn Spanish is
Speaker 1: something I hear a lot, Or it's my dream to
Speaker 1: go to New Orleans for bardigras. I'm dying to try
Speaker 1: that new restaurant now. To be sure, there are some
Speaker 1: experiences that may not be doable in the near term.
Speaker 1: If you want to write a book or travel to India,
Speaker 1: that is going to take time and some longer term planning.
Speaker 1: But often people say they want to do things that
Speaker 1: are eminently doable, they just haven't done them for no
Speaker 1: particular reason. So decide that this year you will do
Speaker 1: those doable things that you have said you have always
Speaker 1: wanted to do. One practical way to do this is
Speaker 1: to follow my time management rule of planning one big
Speaker 1: adventure and one little adventure every week. People who follow
Speaker 1: this advice sometimes tell me that their little adventures were
Speaker 1: things that they had said they'd wanted to do for ages,
Speaker 1: but they had never actually done. These are things like
Speaker 1: trying a new restaurant or coffee shop, or going to
Speaker 1: a shop they frequently drive by but have never gone in.
Speaker 1: If you find yourself talking wistfully about experiences you would
Speaker 1: love to have someday, consider making a list of ten
Speaker 1: things you have always wanted to do or have been
Speaker 1: meaning to do, and then actually doing them this year.
Speaker 1: Maybe this list would include a mix of restaurants to try,
Speaker 1: shops and museums to go to nearby cities or towns
Speaker 1: to visit, books to read, movies to watch, recipes to try, gets,
Speaker 1: to gathers to host, skills to learn, and so forth.
Speaker 1: It could be fun to decide to actually do one
Speaker 1: of these activities every week, or even just every month,
Speaker 1: until you have knocked out the list. By then you
Speaker 1: will have had a lot of fun, and you hopefully
Speaker 1: will have broken the habit of saying you want to
Speaker 1: do things but not actually doing them. If you make
Speaker 1: this the year you do what you've said you've always
Speaker 1: wanted to do, I would love to hear about it.
Speaker 1: You can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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