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 that you can make what you know will
Speaker 1: be a good day even better by tweaking your schedule
Speaker 1: to add more good things and removing things that you
Speaker 1: won't want to do. These almost perfect days can then
Speaker 1: become deep memories thanks to your careful cultivation. So hopefully
Speaker 1: anyone who listens to this podcast knows how important it
Speaker 1: is to plan in things that you are looking forward to.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's tickets to a concert in a few months
Speaker 1: or to an exciting sporting event next week. Positive anticipation
Speaker 1: makes life more exciting and hopeful on a On bad days,
Speaker 1: it can be what makes us get out of bed.
Speaker 1: But if you know something good is coming up, by
Speaker 1: being strategic, you can make the whole day even more exciting.
Speaker 1: We all have some discretion over our schedules and how
Speaker 1: much effort we put into planning good things. I'd argue
Speaker 1: that it can be fun to put even more good
Speaker 1: stuff on an already good day so that you go
Speaker 1: from happiness to happiness all day long. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: let's say you get massages every two months or so,
Speaker 1: and you also have tickets to a favorite band on
Speaker 1: a particular night, you could try scheduling your massage for
Speaker 1: the day you have the concert, so as you are
Speaker 1: relaxing on the massage table, you are also excited about
Speaker 1: the concert happening in a few hours. Or maybe it's
Speaker 1: that you've got tickets to a football game on Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Could you have breakfast that morning with a good friend.
Speaker 1: Or perhaps you've scored a coveted reservation at a great
Speaker 1: restaurant for Friday night, could you plan to take a
Speaker 1: longer lunch break and go walk on that gorgeous trail
Speaker 1: that's not too far from your office. By doubling or
Speaker 1: even tripling the number of good things that happen on
Speaker 1: an anticipated day, you can make it even more memorable.
Speaker 1: You can also consciously move some not so fun stuff
Speaker 1: out of the day. Let's say that you normally file
Speaker 1: expense reports on Fridays and you really dislike doing so.
Speaker 1: Maybe the week you've got that hot dinner reservation, you
Speaker 1: could file those reports on Thursday, so Friday has more
Speaker 1: space for bliss. Now. Of course, the one caveat here
Speaker 1: is that when you stack up a lot of good
Speaker 1: things on one particular day, you do run the risk
Speaker 1: of something going wrong. If you wind up with the
Speaker 1: flu on the day you have a massage, lunch with
Speaker 1: a good friend, and concert tickets, that is really going
Speaker 1: to be painful. But on the other hand, if you
Speaker 1: have lots of good stuff scheduled and something goes wrong
Speaker 1: with one of the events, say the concert is canceled
Speaker 1: due to rain, you can at least console yourself with
Speaker 1: your lunch and your massage. You won't feel quite so
Speaker 1: disappointed about one thing not happening. In any case, I
Speaker 1: think it's a fun game to try to tweak a
Speaker 1: schedule for optimal enjoyment. And as we consciously try to
Speaker 1: plan more good stuff into an already good day, we
Speaker 1: can see a certain truth. We have the power to
Speaker 1: make good things happen happen when we try. Maybe that
Speaker 1: can nudge us to try to make good things happen
Speaker 1: more often. In the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
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