Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that if you.
Speaker 2: Want to have a little adventure on a weekday evening,
Speaker 2: you might be best off making it a stop on
Speaker 2: the way home. It can be hard to get out
Speaker 2: the door again after a long day of work, but
Speaker 2: it might not be as hard to add something on
Speaker 2: to an end of day commute or pick up run.
Speaker 2: Longtime listeners know that one of my favorite time management
Speaker 2: tips is to plan one big adventure and one little
Speaker 2: adventure each week. A little adventure can be pretty short,
Speaker 2: less than an hour, which means it is doable on
Speaker 2: a weekday evening. I also like the idea of taking
Speaker 2: one night for you, doing something that is not work
Speaker 2: and not caring for family. This might be a good
Speaker 2: weekday evening activity as well. Many people agree with me
Speaker 2: in theory, but one key stumbling block is that a
Speaker 2: weekday adventure or going to something regularly like an exercise
Speaker 2: class or a choir practice, means you might have to
Speaker 2: go back out again after coming home from work or
Speaker 2: picking up kids, especially when it is dark and cold
Speaker 2: after dinner. People often want to hibernate. That trip to
Speaker 2: a local gallery with evening hours. That sounded good in
Speaker 2: theory doesn't sound quite so good when you are tired
Speaker 2: after a long day and realize you could be putting
Speaker 2: on your sweatpants and sitting on the couch.
Speaker 1: I get it. I like my sweatpants too, But almost
Speaker 1: always after I have had a little adventure, I am
Speaker 1: glad I have done it. I usually enjoy myself as
Speaker 1: I am doing it too. That is the point of
Speaker 1: having an adventure or a hobby. Now, you could try
Speaker 1: telling yourself that your future self will thank you. It's
Speaker 1: just one night. Every other night you can get straight
Speaker 1: into your pajamas. But if that doesn't work, here is
Speaker 1: a practical strategy. Make it a stop on the way home.
Speaker 1: I heard this recently from someone who really didn't like
Speaker 1: the idea of heading back out after commuting home after
Speaker 1: a long day, but she signed up for music lessons
Speaker 1: every other week that involves stopping at the studio on
Speaker 1: her way home from work. She didn't have to motivate
Speaker 1: herself to leave again because she was already out, and
Speaker 1: she got her hobby. Very smart, right, I can think
Speaker 1: of lots of ways this could play out.
Speaker 2: I mean the obvious one is stopping at the gym
Speaker 2: on the way home from work, though I do realize
Speaker 2: that that is when it is most crowded. But when
Speaker 2: the weather is nice, you could pack running clothes and
Speaker 2: change at work and stop at a park on the
Speaker 2: way home. Once a week or so, you could sign
Speaker 2: up for lessons at six pm somewhere, or take a
Speaker 2: six thirty art class and decide to grab a sandwich
Speaker 2: on the way there. If you leave work at five
Speaker 2: point thirty. If something starts later in the evening, you
Speaker 2: could pack yourself a sandwich and work a little later
Speaker 2: that night. If that is a possibility, to fill the
Speaker 2: time and tell your activity and then leave earlier some
Speaker 2: other day or come in later now. If you are
Speaker 2: responsible for other people in the evening, then this could
Speaker 2: be a little more complicated, but maybe not. If you
Speaker 2: are picking your kids up at daycare, maybe bring a
Speaker 2: snack that is substantial enough to fill them and have
Speaker 2: a little adventure to gather. We are only talking one
Speaker 2: night a week can be okay to bust up the
Speaker 2: routine once, or you can trade off with your partner.
Speaker 2: Each of you gets one night where you stop to
Speaker 2: do your hobby or adventure on the way home from work,
Speaker 2: and the other takes the kids during that time. If
Speaker 2: you have a sitter, maybe this person could work until
Speaker 2: an hour later one night. It would be harder to
Speaker 2: arrange for other childcare to come after this person is
Speaker 2: left anyway, so this might be your best bet for
Speaker 2: making a little adventure happen. Because it is hard to
Speaker 2: head back out after you've gotten home, even if you're
Speaker 2: planning to do something fun, it can still feel like
Speaker 2: a bit of an imposition. But if you haven't gotten
Speaker 2: home yet, then you don't have that problem. So figure
Speaker 2: out what logistics would need to happen and what you
Speaker 2: would like to do one night a week, and.
Speaker 1: I bet you could make it work. Just because it
Speaker 1: is hibernation weather doesn't mean our remembering selves will have
Speaker 1: wanted us to do that every night. Best to give
Speaker 1: our remembering selves something to actually remember in the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
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