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 let other people know when you're
Speaker 1: thinking of them. This is a very easy way to
Speaker 1: spread some cheer in the world to other people and
Speaker 1: to yourself. Two a dozen times a week or maybe
Speaker 1: even more. You probably think of a friend or family
Speaker 1: member that you don't see often. Maybe you go BlackBerry
Speaker 1: picking and think about your parents neighbor who let you
Speaker 1: pick berries in her yard every summer as your kids
Speaker 1: hunt easter eggs. Do you remember the year you had
Speaker 1: chicken pox and couldn't go to the community easter egg
Speaker 1: hunt and your best friend put a basket with eggs
Speaker 1: she'd found on your front doorstep, so you feel included.
Speaker 1: Rather than just let this thought pass, you buy why
Speaker 1: not reach out to the other person sees these thoughts
Speaker 1: as a chance to reconnect to that person or even
Speaker 1: to others who know that person. This is pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1: If you are friends with your parents neighbor on Facebook,
Speaker 1: and come on, you know you probably are. Just send
Speaker 1: a message. Just went BlackBerry picking and I'm remembering lots
Speaker 1: of summer fun in your backyard. Thanks for the memories.
Speaker 1: You could message your siblings too about these memories, or
Speaker 1: your parents or any other neighborhood kids now grown up
Speaker 1: who joined in the berry picking fun. If you've got
Speaker 1: your old Easter egg finding friends email or cell phone number,
Speaker 1: won't email or text about your memory of that Easter
Speaker 1: egg hunt. I loved getting the basket that year. I
Speaker 1: remember how special it made me feel. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: These chances for memory and reconnecting are everywhere once you
Speaker 1: start to become aware of them. Seeing your college basketball
Speaker 1: team play on TV can be a chance to message
Speaker 1: tons of folks who are probably watching the game too.
Speaker 1: Cleaning out your closet and seeing a dress from an
Speaker 1: old formal can be a chance to text friends who
Speaker 1: are there as well. One real upside of this habit
Speaker 1: is that you are not asking for anything. With this outreach.
Speaker 1: Your connections don't have to pull out their calendars to
Speaker 1: figure out when they're free for a get together. They
Speaker 1: don't have to weigh whether they can afford to do
Speaker 1: you a favor or anything else. You are just letting
Speaker 1: them know that you are thinking about them. It's a simple, quick,
Speaker 1: an authentic way of reinforcing your relationships. You brighten other
Speaker 1: people's days. Who wouldn't want to be reminded that they
Speaker 1: did something nice at age ten. You're giving them a
Speaker 1: moment of happiness and then letting them get back to
Speaker 1: whatever they were doing. This spreads cheer in the world,
Speaker 1: but will also create cheer for you too. Our memories
Speaker 1: are funny things. They become stronger the more we interact
Speaker 1: with them. When you relive a fun memory by sharing
Speaker 1: it with someone else, the memory becomes more vivid for you.
Speaker 1: The more good memories we do this with, the more
Speaker 1: we believe the narrative that we have had a good
Speaker 1: life and most likely we will continue to do so.
Speaker 1: We are creating memories now that can become shared moments
Speaker 1: of recollection in the future. So today, if you find
Speaker 1: yourself thinking of someone fondly tell that person so you'll
Speaker 1: brighten your day and theirs and feel like the world
Speaker 1: is a smaller and friendlier place. In the meantime, This
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making them
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