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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to spend some time purposefully imagining happy

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Speaker 1: future activities. It's easy to spend time worrying, but daydreaming

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Speaker 1: is a more productive use of time. If you're like

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Speaker 1: a lot of people my age, as a teenager, you

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Speaker 1: may have spent hours poring over those thick, glossy brochures

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Speaker 1: that college is sent in the mail. I remember imagining

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Speaker 1: myself on various grassy quads, always engaged in deep conversations.

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Speaker 1: My life could go in so many directions. I imagine

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Speaker 1: during my babysitting years what my own family would look like.

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Speaker 1: I imagine the book side right. Does life look exactly

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Speaker 1: like I thought it would? Well, of course not. But

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Speaker 1: picturing a positive future gave me something to look forward to.

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Speaker 1: And it turns out that daydreaming hits the spot now too,

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Speaker 1: Even though I have a lot less of life to

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Speaker 1: go than I did in tenth grade. Some things are

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Speaker 1: less in the realm of possibility, but some things still are.

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Speaker 1: I'm picturing the trips I'll take when travel restrictions are

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Speaker 1: lifted and I'm picturing the quiet in my house during

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Speaker 1: the day when my kids are all back in school.

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Speaker 1: If life happens to feel challenging in a moment, daydreaming

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Speaker 1: raises the possibility of enjoyment. So today, if you find

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Speaker 1: yourself daydreaming, embrace it. If you find yourself sitting in

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Speaker 1: your backyard and thinking about how much you'd like to

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Speaker 1: have a garden, well really indulge this thought. Get out

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Speaker 1: a sketch pad and a tape measure and draw what

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Speaker 1: your garden would look like. Peruse a coffee table home

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Speaker 1: design book and dream up ways of redecorating your home.

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Speaker 1: You could plan guest lists and try out recipes for

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Speaker 1: casual get togethers you'd like to host some day. Or

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Speaker 1: maybe you want to plan a dream vacation. Get a

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Speaker 1: Lonely Planet ey'd for your favorite destination and go online

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Speaker 1: to read about sites you'd like to see. If there's

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Speaker 1: a restaurant you're dying to try or to return to

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Speaker 1: after so long away, view the menu online and imagine

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Speaker 1: what you'll order. You might consider who will accompany you,

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Speaker 1: and even what you'll wear. Dreaming about our futures takes

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Speaker 1: us out of the sometimes disappointing present. It also nudges

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Speaker 1: us to start planning, which makes it more possible to

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Speaker 1: put these dreams into action. And here's a little secret.

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Speaker 1: There's some research finding that anticipation accounts for the lion's

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Speaker 1: share of the happiness associated with any event. The dream

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Speaker 1: vacation will be great, but at some point during it,

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Speaker 1: you'll be jet lagged, you'll desperately need a restroom in

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Speaker 1: a museum without one, and you won't be able to

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Speaker 1: understand the conductor on your train so you'll miss your stop.

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Speaker 1: Day dreams feature none of this, so we may as

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Speaker 1: well enjoy these rare spots of perfect blitz in the meantime.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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