WEBVTT - Would you live today over again?

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip involves improving your life by asking a deceptively

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<v Speaker 1>simple question, would you choose to live today over again?

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<v Speaker 1>So I live in Pennsylvania, which is also the home

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<v Speaker 1>of a famous groundhog known as Punksitani Phil, and this

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<v Speaker 1>episode is first airing shortly after February two. Each year.

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<v Speaker 1>On that day, a huge crowd gathers to see if

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<v Speaker 1>Phil will see his shadow or not. This augurs whether

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<v Speaker 1>there will be six more weeks of winter or something

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<v Speaker 1>like that. Groundhog Day is a rather silly holiday, but

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<v Speaker 1>a few decades ago it became the title of a

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<v Speaker 1>movie based on a fascinating premise. Phil Connors, a not

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<v Speaker 1>terribly pleasant TV personality, visiting the Groundhog Day festivities, get

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<v Speaker 1>stuck living Groundhog Day over and over again. At first,

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<v Speaker 1>he is defiant about the whole time warp, but eventually

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<v Speaker 1>he decides that if this is the day he has,

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<v Speaker 1>he is going to live it right. And this premise

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<v Speaker 1>gets at an old existential question, how would we live

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<v Speaker 1>if we were sentenced to live any given period of

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<v Speaker 1>time over and over? Again, I imagine we have different answers,

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<v Speaker 1>but there are probably certain things we do. We wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>fly off the handle about silly things. We wouldn't make

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<v Speaker 1>choices that we knew would make us feel bad later.

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<v Speaker 1>We would spend time with people who energize us and

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<v Speaker 1>make us feel good about life. We would spend less

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<v Speaker 1>time with people who don't meet those criteria, And I'd

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<v Speaker 1>like to think we'd spend less time on things that

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<v Speaker 1>are all about filling time. Scrolling through tweeted insults feels

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<v Speaker 1>pretty pointless the first time around. Multiplying that by eternity

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<v Speaker 1>is mind boggling. Of course, we are not actually going

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<v Speaker 1>to live today over and over again, but I think

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<v Speaker 1>this is a good question to ask, as we're looking

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<v Speaker 1>back over any given day, what aspects of the day

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<v Speaker 1>would we not mind reliving and what do we really

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<v Speaker 1>wish to consign to the past. Asking this question can

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<v Speaker 1>help us think through what the good life would look like.

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<v Speaker 1>A day I'd live over and over again probably wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>involve waiting for a groundhog to pop up, but I

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<v Speaker 1>would like to savor a good cup of coffee, run

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<v Speaker 1>somewhere beautiful, and snuggle with my kids. I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>those things would ever get old. How about you? What

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<v Speaker 1>would your answers be In the meantime, This is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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