WEBVTT - Second Cup: Create a List of 100 Dreams

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to make a list of a hundred dreams.

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<v Speaker 1>When it comes to time management, a lot of people

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<v Speaker 1>think it's all about saving bits of time here and there,

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<v Speaker 1>and so the internet is full of these kinds of tips.

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<v Speaker 1>I will confess that I read these tips like everybody else,

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<v Speaker 1>hoping I'm going to find hours in the day that

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know existed. But then it's always stuff like

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<v Speaker 1>clean the shower while you're in it. Or one of

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<v Speaker 1>my favorites, which somebody said in all seriousness, is that

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<v Speaker 1>if you send a lot of emails where the answers okay,

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<v Speaker 1>you should just type kay instead of okay, because I

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<v Speaker 1>know the only thing keeping me from greatness is typing

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<v Speaker 1>the letter oh and all my emails. Right, If you

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<v Speaker 1>think about it, it's kind of silly. We don't build

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<v Speaker 1>the lives we want by saving time. We build the

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<v Speaker 1>lives we want, and then time saves itself. I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's so much more effective to think about what we

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<v Speaker 1>want to spend more time doing. What great things would

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<v Speaker 1>we like to put into our lives. The best way

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<v Speaker 1>to answer that question is to make a list many

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<v Speaker 1>years ago, career coach Caroline Sneeze O Levine shared an

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<v Speaker 1>exercise with me that she calls the list of a

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<v Speaker 1>hundred dreams. This is a completely unedited list of anything

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<v Speaker 1>you want to do or have in life. It can

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<v Speaker 1>be travel goals or hobbies, or things you'd like to

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<v Speaker 1>do with your family, maybe professional goals too. You can

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<v Speaker 1>think of it as like a bucket list, but most

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<v Speaker 1>people's bucket lists don't have a hundred items on there.

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<v Speaker 1>It's actually really hard to get to a hundred. The

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<v Speaker 1>first third is pretty easy because most people want to

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<v Speaker 1>travel more, so they put the thirty three countries they

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<v Speaker 1>want to visit. After that it gets more complicated. Random

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<v Speaker 1>items have put on my lists over the years have

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<v Speaker 1>included visiting the Greek Islands, seeing Perth, Australia, building and

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<v Speaker 1>furnishing a doll house with my daughter, writing a collection

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<v Speaker 1>of sonnets, getting a good rain jacket, and singing in

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<v Speaker 1>a performance of Box B Minor Mass. You'll probably have

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<v Speaker 1>to come back to this list several times. Don't second

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<v Speaker 1>guess your answers. You're not actually holding yourself to any

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<v Speaker 1>of this, and you don't have to show it to

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<v Speaker 1>anyone either. Though you can if you want. It's just

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<v Speaker 1>fun to think about things you want to spend more

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<v Speaker 1>time doing. You'll learn more about yourself and about what

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<v Speaker 1>makes you feel excited and energized. Because here's the thing,

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<v Speaker 1>I promise, pretty much everybody has some discretionary time in

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<v Speaker 1>their lives. Unfortunately, if you're building a career and raising

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<v Speaker 1>a family, this free time seldom comes gift wrapped and obvious.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't always look like a day at the spa. Instead,

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<v Speaker 1>it appears as an hour after the kids go to bed,

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<v Speaker 1>or when you're waiting for the car pool to bring

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<v Speaker 1>them home from soccer practice, or maybe it's a half

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<v Speaker 1>day on the weekend when the groceries are bought and

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<v Speaker 1>this with meat is done. Because we think we don't

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<v Speaker 1>have free time, we don't ask what we'd like to

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<v Speaker 1>do with it. So when free time does appear, we

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<v Speaker 1>spend it in the most effortless way as possible, scrolling

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<v Speaker 1>around online watching TV, or puttering around the house doing

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<v Speaker 1>housework that doesn't really need to be done. With a

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<v Speaker 1>list of a hundred dreams, though, you get ideas. If

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<v Speaker 1>I've got an open hour, I can write a draft

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<v Speaker 1>of a sonnet on a weekend afternoon, I could find

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<v Speaker 1>a doll furniture store and go visit. Then this time

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<v Speaker 1>will feel more rejuvenating then if I lose it to

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<v Speaker 1>stuff I don't care about. So at some point today,

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<v Speaker 1>start making your list of a hundred dreams. Maybe you

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<v Speaker 1>can get to twenty five over your lunch break, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>you can add fifteen more tonight, or maybe you'll surprise

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<v Speaker 1>me and get all the way to a hundred. I'd

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<v Speaker 1>love to hear how far you get. I'd love to

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<v Speaker 1>hear what you put on there too. Feel free to

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<v Speaker 1>send me your lists at Before Breakfast podcast at i

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<v Speaker 1>heeart media dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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<v Speaker 1>our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks so much. I look forward to staying in touch.