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 spend a few minutes daydreaming about
Speaker 1: what might be on next year's highlights list. No need
Speaker 1: to set exacting goals if you don't want to. This
Speaker 1: is just about pondering possibilities. If you take the right approach,
Speaker 1: it can be exciting rather than about any sort of pressure.
Speaker 1: Towards the end of the year, everyone puts out their
Speaker 1: best of lists, the best movies of the year, the
Speaker 1: best books, the best albums. There are articles and shows
Speaker 1: about the year, and review people talk about the highlights
Speaker 1: what happened. All of this serves a purpose. It is
Speaker 1: good to reflect on what we have done. We often
Speaker 1: don't give ourselves enough credit for what has been accomplished.
Speaker 1: It's also fun to think about cool movies and shows
Speaker 1: and to debate what was better. That is plenty of
Speaker 1: dinner table conversation fodder. But as we do all this,
Speaker 1: I think it's fun to look forward to what will
Speaker 1: be on next year's highlight lists, what will make next
Speaker 1: year's best of lists, and what will we be reminiscing
Speaker 1: about as we review our own years now. This serves
Speaker 1: a practical purpose for pop culture purposes. Yes, we don't
Speaker 1: know all the movies that will be released in the
Speaker 1: coming year, but if you spend a little time researching it,
Speaker 1: you get a pretty good idea of the big ones.
Speaker 1: You could look at upcoming releases and think about what
Speaker 1: you would look forward to seeing Which movies do you
Speaker 1: think you would enjoy most, What would make your top
Speaker 1: ten list for the year, or maybe more reasonably, you're
Speaker 1: top five list. This will give you a nudge to
Speaker 1: make plans to see those films. Same with any upcoming series,
Speaker 1: or upcoming albums or upcoming books. When you spend some
Speaker 1: time thinking about what is coming up, you can get excited.
Speaker 1: Anticipation is truly a wonderful emotion. You know good things
Speaker 1: are happening. You see that a handful of your favorite
Speaker 1: authors have new releases coming out at various points. You
Speaker 1: might even start planning to read that blockbuster summer novel
Speaker 1: while you are sitting on the beach. Talk about a
Speaker 1: fun thing to look forward to during a dreary winter commute.
Speaker 1: It's also fun to think about what might land in
Speaker 1: our own personal highlights lists. What are going to be
Speaker 1: some of your best memories from the upcoming year. Now
Speaker 1: I know life is unknowable. I thought in early that
Speaker 1: I was going to have some amazing memories from international
Speaker 1: trips that I could reflect back on come late December.
Speaker 1: Thanks to the pandemic, those trips did not happen. But
Speaker 1: much does happen, And when we identify potentially cool memories
Speaker 1: ahead of time, we can savor them more as we
Speaker 1: are making them. You see that your favorite band is
Speaker 1: going to be touring and has a concert not far
Speaker 1: from you, you decide to buy tickets, and you go
Speaker 1: all in on that experience, planning a whole weekend around it.
Speaker 1: Since you anticipated landing on the highlight list for the year,
Speaker 1: it truly does wind up landing on the highlight list.
Speaker 1: So spend a little time this week thinking about this question.
Speaker 1: Come the end of the coming year, what are you
Speaker 1: going to be reminiscing about? What memories will you be
Speaker 1: toasting as you greet the next new year? And not
Speaker 1: all of them will happen, but some might. And while
Speaker 1: there will be hopefully highlights that you can't even see yet,
Speaker 1: a little foresight can stretch out the fun. So why
Speaker 1: not give it a shot. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of
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