Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that a life is lived in hours.
Speaker 1: If you want to really enjoy your life, make sure
Speaker 1: you are spending your hours in a way that you
Speaker 1: find satisfying. Today is Groundhog Day in the U S.
Speaker 1: When this is first airing now, it's not really a holiday.
Speaker 1: We are observing if the groundhog named Paxitani Phil sees
Speaker 1: his shadow, which predicts whether or not we will have
Speaker 1: six more weeks of winter. I think of the holiday
Speaker 1: more for the reference to the famous movie Groundhog Day,
Speaker 1: which asks what would happen if you had to live
Speaker 1: the same day over and over again? As I ponder
Speaker 1: this question, I am not sure how many days I
Speaker 1: would in fact choose to live over and over again. Sure,
Speaker 1: I have had a great many experiences in life, and
Speaker 1: I'm also very happy with the big pieces of my life.
Speaker 1: I love my work, I love my family. But any
Speaker 1: given day can have its ups and downs, and even
Speaker 1: a day where you do something cool can have its
Speaker 1: stresses at another point. Ultimately, life has lived in hours.
Speaker 1: Being truly content means being happy with how we spend
Speaker 1: our hours not just one big cool thing each day
Speaker 1: or every few days, not just having a lovely home
Speaker 1: or a good job or a happy family. If you
Speaker 1: commute too long to the good job and spend your
Speaker 1: family time watching TV or puttering around, you won't really
Speaker 1: be enjoying life because the hours are not spent in
Speaker 1: fulfilling ways. So instead, achieving happiness involves asking how any
Speaker 1: given hour can be better Within the context of work.
Speaker 1: Can you spend more of your time with the colleagues
Speaker 1: you truly like. Can you spend more of your work
Speaker 1: hours doing the work that inspires you and makes you
Speaker 1: feel particularly challenged. Can you get to work in a
Speaker 1: way that feels fun. That's one reason people tend to
Speaker 1: like biking to work. It's a real thrill at least
Speaker 1: versus sitting in traffic. Can you eat good food for lunch?
Speaker 1: Can you really think through your brakes so you do
Speaker 1: fun things like call friends and go for walks and
Speaker 1: listen to great music. How about the time outside of work?
Speaker 1: Do you have fun little adventures happening in your life?
Speaker 1: What about your downtime? Do you spend your downtime doing
Speaker 1: things you truly find fulfilling, reading good books or doing
Speaker 1: hobbies that put you in a state of flow. And
Speaker 1: beyond that, have you dealt with any issues that make
Speaker 1: ours feel tedious. Not all problems can be solved, but
Speaker 1: some can, and if there is pain or annoyances, maybe
Speaker 1: there is a solution and your happiness is worth some
Speaker 1: investment of time and energy. In any case, days can
Speaker 1: be mostly good in retrospect, even if they weren't exactly
Speaker 1: great in the moment. Memory does make things rosier, But
Speaker 1: on the other hand, all minutes can be made better.
Speaker 1: Given that we only have so many, it is worth
Speaker 1: thinking through our hours and thinking about how each hour
Speaker 1: can be made more pleasant, a source of joy, a
Speaker 1: source of wonder. I do think it is usable. We
Speaker 1: just have to think it through. In the meantime, This
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear
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