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 try something bucket list adjacent. If you
Speaker 1: have big dreams that are hard to pull off in
Speaker 1: the near term, you can keep yourself dreaming by doing
Speaker 1: things that are related. These little adventures can be fun
Speaker 1: and are worth prioritizing over other things. So longtime listeners
Speaker 1: know that I am always encouraging people to make lists
Speaker 1: of dreams and goals. I also know that when many
Speaker 1: people construct their bucket lists, the fun can be tinged
Speaker 1: with some frustration. After all, you might like to visit Thailand,
Speaker 1: or hike the Appalachian Trail, or singing Carnegie Hall, or
Speaker 1: something along those lines, but most of those are not
Speaker 1: easy to pull off in the near term. I, for instance,
Speaker 1: keep putting on my bucket list that I want to
Speaker 1: sing in a performance of Box B Minor Mass. But
Speaker 1: while you can buy a plane ticket somewhere you would
Speaker 1: like to go, it is a little harder to arrange
Speaker 1: for the performance of a large scale choral work with
Speaker 1: an orchestra. I have gotten close a few times, like
Speaker 1: when the choir I regularly sing with was scheduled to
Speaker 1: perform the B Minor Mass in the spring of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: but you can guess what happened with that. Anyway. I
Speaker 1: am hoping to sing the Mass at some point, but
Speaker 1: in the meantime, choirs and orchestras do perform the B
Speaker 1: Minor Mass from time to time, and if those performances
Speaker 1: happen within two hours or so of my house, I
Speaker 1: can get a ticket and go. I went to one
Speaker 1: performance a few weeks before this episode aired, and it
Speaker 1: was a great way to stay familiar with the piece
Speaker 1: As I followed along in my score. I wasn't singing
Speaker 1: it myself, but I was experiencing the mass. It was
Speaker 1: bucket list adjacent. Maybe you too have goals that are
Speaker 1: hard to pull off in the near term. You'd like
Speaker 1: to visit Thailand, but the travel budget isn't there, Or
Speaker 1: you have little kids and don't relish the idea of
Speaker 1: taking them on a twelve hour flight. But if you
Speaker 1: are planning to go out for a date night dinner
Speaker 1: with your partner at some point, maybe you could go
Speaker 1: to a Thai restaurant if there's one within an hour
Speaker 1: or so of your house. You could stream a movie
Speaker 1: or documentary set in Thailand that night, and check out
Speaker 1: some photo books about Thailand from your library. It's not
Speaker 1: going to Thailand, for sure, but it's Thailand adjacent. I
Speaker 1: don't think this is settling, really, it's more about helping
Speaker 1: with the anticipation. If something is truly a life goal,
Speaker 1: you may be able to pull it off at some point,
Speaker 1: and the more you can do in the meantime, the
Speaker 1: more excited you will be when it happens. You might
Speaker 1: learn more about yourself and your dream too. For instance,
Speaker 1: perhaps you've put hike the Appalachian Trail on your bucket list. Well,
Speaker 1: it is a long trail going through lots of states,
Speaker 1: but that means you could definitely hike two to three
Speaker 1: days of it at some point in the next year
Speaker 1: or two. Try it out, see how it goes. Talk
Speaker 1: to some through hikers if you meet them on the way.
Speaker 1: Maybe you will get more excited. Or maybe you will realize,
Speaker 1: as it is rainy and you are hiking on some
Speaker 1: really muddy and rocky terrain, that this isn't as great
Speaker 1: as you thought it would be, and so you won't
Speaker 1: need to waste energy thinking about this bucket list item
Speaker 1: that you no longer want to have on your bucket list.
Speaker 1: Who knows how it will all turn out. What I
Speaker 1: do know is that doing things that our bucket list
Speaker 1: adjacent can help you learn what you like and what
Speaker 1: you don't like. We all want to have little adventures
Speaker 1: in our lives from time to time. Things that are
Speaker 1: pieces of big adventures can make excellent small adventures because
Speaker 1: there are probably elements that are really appealing to you.
Speaker 1: You can get some of the feeling of the big
Speaker 1: adventure even as you are just living your normal life.
Speaker 1: So make a bucket list and then look for little
Speaker 1: adventures that our bucket list adjacent. You will make life
Speaker 1: more interesting and maybe boost anticipation for future adventures. Or
Speaker 1: you'll come to see which big adventures you'd truly enjoy
Speaker 1: and which you wouldn't. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.
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