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 to keep track of fun things that
Speaker 1: you could do in the future and remind yourself of
Speaker 1: these opportunities at the right moment, or, to put it differently,
Speaker 1: invite your future self to have fun. It is easy
Speaker 1: to get caught up in the business of day to
Speaker 1: day life and not have as much fun and variety
Speaker 1: as we would like. That's why I always suggest planning
Speaker 1: adventures into the schedule. As we think about our fun portfolio,
Speaker 1: I'd suggest investing time in planning the really grand adventures,
Speaker 1: like getting tickets to Hamilton's, growing a reservation at a
Speaker 1: restaurant that is impossible to get into, booking a weekend
Speaker 1: trip with your college best friends, or any other activity
Speaker 1: that you need to schedule far in advance. On the
Speaker 1: other end of the fun spectrum are things you can
Speaker 1: do whenever you want, decorating cookies, watching a documentary you've
Speaker 1: been meaning to see, needle point. It is a great
Speaker 1: idea to keep an any time fun list for these
Speaker 1: so you can do them whenever you have some free time.
Speaker 1: So that is the big stuff and the little stuff. Now,
Speaker 1: let's think about the middle. There are lots of activities
Speaker 1: that you don't have to plan way in advance, but
Speaker 1: you also can't just do any time. For these, I
Speaker 1: find it's helpful to invite your future self to participate.
Speaker 1: I think things like picking apples in September, going to
Speaker 1: New England to see the changing leaves in October, build
Speaker 1: gingerbread houses in December. For activities like these, people who
Speaker 1: use electronic calendars can create calendar items inviting their future
Speaker 1: selves to participate. For example, you could create a calendar
Speaker 1: invite for August seven, saying want to pick apples sometime soon.
Speaker 1: A calendar invite for September might ask leaf peeping day
Speaker 1: trip next month and invite on December three might ask
Speaker 1: if you'd like to make gingerbread houses soon. By using
Speaker 1: calendar invites to invite your future self to do something fun,
Speaker 1: you are able to keep track of your ideas for
Speaker 1: things you could do and revisit them in the future
Speaker 1: at a time when you will be able to make
Speaker 1: specific plans. It's okay if your future self occasionally declines
Speaker 1: your invitations, but more often the invitations may prompt you
Speaker 1: to have fun that otherwise might have passed you by.
Speaker 1: Of course, you don't have to use an electronic calendar
Speaker 1: to do any of this. You can just put notes
Speaker 1: on a paper calendar for upcoming fun. Right schedule leaf
Speaker 1: peeping day trip on your calendar for a day in
Speaker 1: September when you're doing your planning. I always use Fridays
Speaker 1: for this, and you will see the note and consider
Speaker 1: when to put your fun. You can even do this
Speaker 1: for annual things. If you go to a music festival
Speaker 1: and have a ton of fun, go ahead and put
Speaker 1: a note on your calendar for early summer next year,
Speaker 1: inviting yourself to consider going again. It is easy to
Speaker 1: forget about fun things that don't have to happen and
Speaker 1: maybe remember them after the fact, But by inviting your
Speaker 1: future self to have fun, you are less likely to
Speaker 1: forget and more likely to remember when the time is
Speaker 1: right to act. In the meantime, this is Laura, Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, 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
Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with
Speaker 1: me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at Before Breakfast Pod.
Speaker 1: That's B the number four then Breakfast p o D.
Speaker 1: You can also shoot me an email at before Breakfast
Speaker 1: podcast at i heeart media dot com that before Breakfast
Speaker 1: is spelled out with all the letters. Thanks so much,
Speaker 1: I look forward to staying in touch. Before Breakfast is
Speaker 1: a production of I heart Radio. For more podcasts from
Speaker 1: my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.