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 go on a yes quest. If life
Speaker 1: is feeling a little underwhelming, you might challenge yourself to
Speaker 1: say yes a little more frequently. Many new opportunities come
Speaker 1: from being open to something that's a little outside our
Speaker 1: comfort zones. Today's tip, like some others over the next
Speaker 1: few weeks, is from my new book, Big Time, A
Speaker 1: Simple Path to Time Abundance. This book, which is out
Speaker 1: May fifth, is about what happens when you truly believe
Speaker 1: time is big enough to accommodate what matters to you.
Speaker 1: With some smart strategies, it is possible to fall in
Speaker 1: love with your schedule. One of the tips from Big
Speaker 1: Time is to go on a yes quest. I know
Speaker 1: that a lot of productivity literature talks about how we
Speaker 1: should say no more often, and there is something to that.
Speaker 1: I don't want people to spend their precious time on
Speaker 1: earth on things that are neither meaningful nor enjoyable for
Speaker 1: themselves and the people they care about. That said, if
Speaker 1: you think about it, almost all new opportunities, adventures, and
Speaker 1: relationships come out of a yes. After all, if you
Speaker 1: knew about something, you'd be doing it already. Big breakthroughs
Speaker 1: come from trying things you don't know as much about,
Speaker 1: which means you have to be open to serendipity. New
Speaker 1: opportunities have to be able to reach you. So if
Speaker 1: you would like to shake things up in life a little,
Speaker 1: why not try going on your own yes quest. The
Speaker 1: idea is that for a certain period of time, say
Speaker 1: three weeks or a month, you say yes to things
Speaker 1: that sound intriguing to you. If you have the money
Speaker 1: and you have the time, then you try it out,
Speaker 1: even if it is not something you would naturally do.
Speaker 1: When I tried this for a few weeks in the
Speaker 1: spring of twenty twenty five, I wound up saying yes too,
Speaker 1: among other things, swimming with sharks with my oldest child. Now,
Speaker 1: this was certainly a memorable experience, and as a bonus,
Speaker 1: we saw whales on the boat back to shore. Now
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. When I had two hundred other
Speaker 1: people try this out, they had all sorts of interesting
Speaker 1: things happen. People agreed to a meeting with someone new
Speaker 1: and walked out with job offered. People said yes to
Speaker 1: last minute trips that were a total blast. People said
Speaker 1: yes to adventures with friends, to meaningful volunteer opportunities, to
Speaker 1: joining a choir even though they'd never sung in public before.
Speaker 1: Turns out, singing with other people is a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: and guess what you can learn to sing now. You
Speaker 1: don't have to say yes forever, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to say yes to everything. One person who went on
Speaker 1: a yes quest agreed to go volunteer at an animal
Speaker 1: shelter with their kid, but did not agree to get
Speaker 1: a second dog, despite the child making a full PowerPoint
Speaker 1: presentation about the benefits. But I think one of the
Speaker 1: upsides of saying yes for a limited period of time
Speaker 1: is that it nudges us to try new things, precisely
Speaker 1: because we know we are not adding things on forever.
Speaker 1: We are just trying it for a bit and seeing
Speaker 1: what comes of it. Few opportunities in life arrive gift wrapped.
Speaker 1: They come when we have a conversation with someone new
Speaker 1: and follow up. They come when we go to that
Speaker 1: extra event and meet someone fantastic. All of that requires
Speaker 1: saying yes, so by all means say no to things
Speaker 1: you do not want to do. But if it sounds intriguing,
Speaker 1: Try going on a yes quest for a while, and
Speaker 1: you just might be surprised at what wonderful things start happening.
Speaker 1: In the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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