Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to remember to enjoy yourself, especially during the
Speaker 1: holiday season. It can be easy to focus on all
Speaker 1: the things that need to get done, but the point
Speaker 1: of the season, at least in a secular sense, is
Speaker 1: enjoying time with friends and family and making happy memories.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes a conscious push to remember this, but
Speaker 1: that can be a push worth making. So I imagine
Speaker 1: that a lot of people listening to this podcast are
Speaker 1: the chief magic makers in their families. You ensure that
Speaker 1: all family members get equal piles of presents and that
Speaker 1: they are equally thrilled by what you have procured. You
Speaker 1: make sure that everyone gets to that holiday concert, or
Speaker 1: sees the holiday movies, or has tickets to the Nutcracker,
Speaker 1: or whatever it is you plan to do. Perhaps you
Speaker 1: make sure that extended family members are visited as well.
Speaker 1: All of this is work, it can be challenging work.
Speaker 1: My husband and I sat down with our calendars to
Speaker 1: make sure someone would be at all the various Christmas
Speaker 1: concerts and shows. I will come up with a lot
Speaker 1: of presents and make sure they are all beautifully wrapped.
Speaker 1: Somewhere in the middle of getting stuck in a long
Speaker 1: line at Target while I am trying to make sure
Speaker 1: that everyone has the same number of presents, I am
Speaker 1: no doubt going to feel a bit grinchish. So this
Speaker 1: goes on the list too. Remember to enjoy yourself. When
Speaker 1: I made a holiday fund list this year, I actually
Speaker 1: made a point of putting stuff on there that was
Speaker 1: fun for me. I want to go see the Nutcracker.
Speaker 1: I want to sing in multiple Christmas concerts and I
Speaker 1: will be doing so. I want to go to Longwood
Speaker 1: Gardens without children this year, so no one can hustle
Speaker 1: me through the beautiful greenhouse and whine at me that
Speaker 1: they want to leave as I am looking at the ornaments.
Speaker 1: I mean, perhaps my husband will want to leave as well,
Speaker 1: but he's a bit more subtle on this front. You
Speaker 1: might also make sure that you've got some holiday magic happening,
Speaker 1: and I mean magic for you as you plan each week,
Speaker 1: make sure that there is something you are genuinely looking
Speaker 1: forward to. If you have made a schedule and there
Speaker 1: isn't anything that you find fun, go back and rework
Speaker 1: things until there is. And then while this fun thing
Speaker 1: is happening. Pause to savor it. Remind yourself, I am
Speaker 1: having fun now. That may sound silly to say, because
Speaker 1: we tend to think that fun should hit us in
Speaker 1: the face. But I can tell you that this isn't true.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's more after the fact that we're like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: this was actually fun. So in the middle of it,
Speaker 1: pause to have that thought. You will appreciate the experience
Speaker 1: more and that can get you through a few visits
Speaker 1: to shopping Mall Santo's. In the meantime, This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've
Speaker 1: got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at
Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a
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