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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to celebrate your bucket list wins. We tend

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Speaker 1: to write bucket lists looking forward, listing things we still

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Speaker 1: want to do in our lives. But you have no

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Speaker 1: doubt done cool stuff in your life already. Indeed, you

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Speaker 1: have probably done stuff that would go on someone else's

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Speaker 1: bucket list, So why not celebrate whatever those adventures happen

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Speaker 1: to be. I was thinking of this topic the other

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Speaker 1: day because I was reminded that I have not yet

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Speaker 1: been to New Zealand. I would love to go. It

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Speaker 1: is on my bucket list. I am sure the opportunity

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Speaker 1: will come up at some point. Maybe someone listening to

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Speaker 1: this is hosting a conference in New Zealand that needs

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Speaker 1: a keynote speaker to talk about time management. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure when this will all happen. And it is

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Speaker 1: easy to get fixated on stuff like this, like will

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Speaker 1: I ever make it to New Zealand. But it's not

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Speaker 1: like I haven't done some adventurous travel in my life.

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Speaker 1: I spent four months living in Australia during college, and

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Speaker 1: I know that a visit to that country is certainly

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Speaker 1: on a great many people's bucket lists. So that inspired

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Speaker 1: me to stop ruminating on New Zealand for a while

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Speaker 1: and start thinking of other things that I have done

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Speaker 1: that might make it onto someone else's bucket list, or

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Speaker 1: even might have made it on two past Laura's bucket lists,

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Speaker 1: or I'm making such lists at early points in my life.

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Speaker 1: I haven't gone to New Zealand, but I have toured

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Speaker 1: the time Mahal. I haven't gone to New Zealand, but

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Speaker 1: I have been on a safari in South Africa. I

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Speaker 1: am sure that you likewise have done some fascinating things

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Speaker 1: in your life that someone else might set as a

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Speaker 1: life goal. Maybe you have visited some really cool national parks.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you've gone to the Louver or seen a Shakespeare

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Speaker 1: play at Stratford on Avon. Maybe you've taken a cross

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Speaker 1: country road trip or been in a rock band, or

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Speaker 1: marched in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Maybe you live

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Speaker 1: somewhere like New Zealand, And, so you have seen places

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Speaker 1: that are on other people's bucket lists, just in the

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Speaker 1: course of normal life. In any case, maybe as a

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Speaker 1: journaling prompt or as something to think about during a

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Speaker 1: long car trip. Start pondering the things that you have

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Speaker 1: done that someone else might set as a life goal.

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Speaker 1: What have you done that other people might say, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that is cool. Then, to really enjoy this experience, try

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Speaker 1: to pull up some memories from those adventures or accomplishments.

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Speaker 1: Do you have souvenirs from that Italy trip? What memories

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Speaker 1: can you recall from that Rolling Stones concert? What was

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Speaker 1: it like to have a picture of your garden in

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Speaker 1: a magazine. The world is a big place and there

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Speaker 1: are many things one can do in life. Nobody is

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Speaker 1: going to do all of them. So if we focus

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Speaker 1: exclusively on what we still want to do, it is

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Speaker 1: easy to feel like it will never be enough. But

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Speaker 1: if we instead remember all that we have done, that

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Speaker 1: can produce some feelings of contentment. I do still want

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Speaker 1: to make it to New Zealand, and I have hopes

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Speaker 1: that I will. But diving on the Great Barrier reef

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Speaker 1: and seeing the taj Mahal are pretty cool too. It

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Speaker 1: is good to keep these things in context. I would

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Speaker 1: love to hear what you have done that would be

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Speaker 1: on someone else's bucket list. Bonus points for cool stories

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Speaker 1: you can send those stories to me at Laura at

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Speaker 1: Laura vandercam dot com. That is l a U r

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Speaker 1: I really do read all these emails and I respond

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Speaker 1: to the vast majority of them, So send them my

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Speaker 1: way and in the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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