Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of My Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to look backwards often. Studying records of
Speaker 1: our past selves can offer clues to things we'd enjoy
Speaker 1: now and give us ideas that we know will probably work.
Speaker 1: We can all find ourselves in a rut from time
Speaker 1: to time. At work, we're doing projects that don't particularly
Speaker 1: excite us. In our personal lives, we tend to do
Speaker 1: the same things over and over again because it takes
Speaker 1: effort to come up with new stuff, and who has
Speaker 1: time for that. But we don't have to reinvent the
Speaker 1: wheel every day. Various records from the past can remind
Speaker 1: us of things we liked or found exciting and that
Speaker 1: might be worth another try. For instance, what about your
Speaker 1: old calendars or planners. Hopefully you've kept some of these
Speaker 1: for the memories. Memories don't have to stay in the drawer.
Speaker 1: Look back through what occupied you in times past. Maybe
Speaker 1: a short weekend trip with a lot of fun. Maybe
Speaker 1: you enjoyed a particular plateate quite a bit. Maybe you
Speaker 1: met a friend for lunch at a restaurant you really liked.
Speaker 1: All of these are great ideas for repeating in your
Speaker 1: life over the next few weeks. Same with work. Look
Speaker 1: back through your old meetings and appointments. Names will probably
Speaker 1: jump out at you that you haven't thought about for
Speaker 1: a while. If anyone sparks a pleasant memory or a smile, well,
Speaker 1: time to reach out again. Just a thinking of you
Speaker 1: email or call will suffice. Maybe there will be an
Speaker 1: occasion to work together again in or maybe it will
Speaker 1: just be nice to relive the memory, but either way
Speaker 1: there is no harm in reconnecting. You might also see
Speaker 1: the kinds of projects that you really liked. When you
Speaker 1: see a handful of meetings about a past project that
Speaker 1: you remember really enjoying. Well again, this is important knowledge.
Speaker 1: You can start thinking about what exactly you liked so
Speaker 1: much and how you can incorporate these aspects into your
Speaker 1: current working life. Now you might be thinking, well, of
Speaker 1: course I would remember all of this, but life gets busy.
Speaker 1: We're managing lots of other details, and it's easy to
Speaker 1: fill our time with whatever is right in front of us.
Speaker 1: While that strawberry picking trip was fun and we liked
Speaker 1: a restaurant on a different occasion that's near the strawberry farm,
Speaker 1: it takes a bit of thought to piece this together
Speaker 1: and say, hey, that would make for a fun Saturday,
Speaker 1: particularly if we invite our old neighbors who the kids
Speaker 1: used to love playing with. But when you nudge these
Speaker 1: memories back up to the top, you remember what you
Speaker 1: enjoyed and you come up with new ways to combine
Speaker 1: these things. This can lead to a lot more fun times,
Speaker 1: not just in the past, but now so today. Try
Speaker 1: hunting through old calendars and planners or any other past
Speaker 1: artifacts you might have. All of them can offer clues.
Speaker 1: It's the best way to get out of your rut now.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
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