Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 2: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 2: tip is to schedule your TV time. Screen Time is
Speaker 2: more fun and memorable when it is chosen and fits
Speaker 2: into your evening like a puzzle piece, rather than taking
Speaker 2: over the entire time. So I've been trying to spend
Speaker 2: my evening hours better, and over the past few months
Speaker 2: I've been sharing lots of suggestions with people.
Speaker 1: About how to do that. A key part is to
Speaker 1: set an evening intention, something that takes thirty to sixty
Speaker 1: minutes and that you know you would enjoy. When people
Speaker 1: hear that suggestion, many assume that setting an evening intention
Speaker 1: is about spending life us time on screens, and it
Speaker 1: certainly can be, but your intention can be screen time.
Speaker 1: The key is that it is chosen and you have
Speaker 1: thought about how to fit it into your evening. For instance,
Speaker 1: one item on my Winter fund list this year is
Speaker 1: to watch some basketball games. I get busy and sometimes
Speaker 1: forget it is basketball season until the season is almost over,
Speaker 1: So as part of planning my weeks, I have looked
Speaker 1: up the Philadelphia seventy six ers schedule and seen when
Speaker 1: they have games on nights where I don't have something
Speaker 1: else to do, watching part of the game, maybe from
Speaker 1: seven thirty to eight thirty or so before I need
Speaker 1: to do the bedtime routine can be my evening intention.
Speaker 1: As this episode is first airing, lots of people will
Speaker 1: be watching the Winter Olympics. This is definitely something special
Speaker 1: that can be an evening intention. In particular, you could
Speaker 1: tape the coverage, then figure out which particular sports you
Speaker 1: most want to watch, and watch those segments during whatever
Speaker 1: window you have. I know that for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: watching YouTube videos has replaced watching old fashioned television. With that,
Speaker 1: I still think we are best off choosing what we
Speaker 1: will watch with intention. Maybe you see that one of
Speaker 1: your favorite creators has a new video posted. You could
Speaker 1: save that for the evening and watch that as your
Speaker 1: evening intention. Queue it up when you know you will
Speaker 1: have time, maybe while your kids are watching a different
Speaker 1: video or after they go to bed. Pay full attention
Speaker 1: to it rather than multitasking, and when it is done,
Speaker 1: get off the screens and go do your next thing.
Speaker 1: By scheduling screen time, we take charge of this time.
Speaker 1: We choose how it fits into our our evenings. Rather
Speaker 1: than having it fill the whole evening unintentionally. We can
Speaker 1: even watch better things. If you and your spouse want
Speaker 1: to watch a two hour movie on a weekday, you could.
Speaker 1: You just need to get the kids in bed on
Speaker 1: time and have it queued up and ready to go.
Speaker 1: But that would make for a much more entertaining and
Speaker 1: memorable evening than watching random YouTube shorts because nobody put
Speaker 1: any thought into it. There is a lot of great
Speaker 1: movie and television entertainment out there. Best to actually enjoy
Speaker 1: what we want to enjoy, rather than feeling like we've
Speaker 1: just wasted time in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,
Speaker 1: or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura
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