WEBVTT - Start your weekend early

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to start your weekend early. By treating the

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<v Speaker 1>entire day of Friday as part of the weekend, at

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<v Speaker 1>least mentally, you might be able to make this day

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<v Speaker 1>feel more special and more fun. So I tend to

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<v Speaker 1>be responsible for making the weekend schedule in my family.

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<v Speaker 1>On a recent weekend, I saw that Saturday and Sunday

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<v Speaker 1>involved a lot of driving kids around and not a

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<v Speaker 1>whole lot of things that were going to be fun

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<v Speaker 1>for me. Sometimes that is just life. But then, before

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<v Speaker 1>I started feeling sorry for myself, I looked at what

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<v Speaker 1>was happening Friday and remembered that I was meeting a

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<v Speaker 1>friend for lunch, and I had scheduled a massage right

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<v Speaker 1>before the usual end of my workday. Saturday and Sunday

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<v Speaker 1>weren't going to be particularly amazing. Indeed, I was going

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<v Speaker 1>to be working for about two hours on Sunday afternoon,

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<v Speaker 1>but I was certainly having some fun. I was just

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<v Speaker 1>starting my weekend fun early. Now I realized that some

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<v Speaker 1>people don't have any flexibility during their Friday work schedules,

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<v Speaker 1>though a lot of people listening to this podcast probably do.

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<v Speaker 1>Even if you need to be at your workplace all day, though,

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<v Speaker 1>you might try thinking that the weekend starts on Friday

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<v Speaker 1>and think about what that might inspire. For instance, you

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<v Speaker 1>might ask a work friend to go to lunch with you.

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<v Speaker 1>You might deliberately leave some open space to work on

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<v Speaker 1>your favorite projects. Maybe you would choose upbeat music or

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<v Speaker 1>a favorite funny podcast to listen to on your commute.

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<v Speaker 1>Both ways, you might choose more fun activities for your breaks,

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<v Speaker 1>reading a good book instead of scrolling around online. You

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<v Speaker 1>are cultivating a weekend vibe early. If you work at

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<v Speaker 1>home on Fridays, which post pandemic I know a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of people do, then you have more options. Think about

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<v Speaker 1>what could make the day feel special and a little

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<v Speaker 1>more fun. Maybe you plan to stop working around four

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<v Speaker 1>pm to go for a run or a walk. You

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<v Speaker 1>could take a shorter lunch break to make that possible.

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<v Speaker 1>Or you could work three to five pm but take

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<v Speaker 1>a longer lunch break. Go have a little adventure, go

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<v Speaker 1>peru as a bookstore, take a favorite midday exercise class.

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<v Speaker 1>If your spouse is also working from home, have lunch together,

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<v Speaker 1>or if your kids are taking the bus home, you

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<v Speaker 1>could both stop at four and have a happy hour

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<v Speaker 1>drink together, especially if your weekend features a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>have to dos. Starting the weekend vibe on Friday during

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<v Speaker 1>the workday can make life feel a lot more in joyable.

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<v Speaker 1>If you have kids, your kids are probably somewhere else,

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<v Speaker 1>whether at school or daycare or with the sitter, so

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<v Speaker 1>you might actually have more flexibility for your personal fun

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<v Speaker 1>on Friday than you would on Saturday or Sunday. And

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<v Speaker 1>even if you don't have young kids, there is something

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<v Speaker 1>different about Fridays. People who travel for work are often

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<v Speaker 1>back on Fridays, and in the office, people who work

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<v Speaker 1>later Monday through Thursday often work shorter hours on Friday.

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<v Speaker 1>I have seen that in my time dairy studies from

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<v Speaker 1>casual Fridays to work from home Fridays. Many workplaces already

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<v Speaker 1>treat Friday as a separate matter from the usual Monday

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<v Speaker 1>to Thursday routine, So why not acknowledge that think about

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<v Speaker 1>what you could do to make Friday during the day

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<v Speaker 1>feel more like the weekend, even if you are working

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<v Speaker 1>a full day. If you do that, you'll have more

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<v Speaker 1>fun in your life the weekend will feel longer and

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<v Speaker 1>that is rarely a bad thing. In the meantime, this

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<v Speaker 1>is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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<v Speaker 1>most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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<v Speaker 1>me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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