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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is that we all need adventures in our lives.

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Speaker 1: If adventures feel hard to come by right now, then

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Speaker 1: your best bet is to recast something you are already

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Speaker 1: doing as an adventure. Doing so can change the experience entirely.

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Speaker 1: For the past year, I've been researching how time management

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Speaker 1: advice plays out in real life for my next book,

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Speaker 1: Tranquility by Tuesday. One of my rules is to plan

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Speaker 1: in one big adventure and one little adventure per week.

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Speaker 1: The big adventure might be something taking half a weekend day.

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Speaker 1: The little adventure could just be an hour or so,

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Speaker 1: but it needs to be something there Ruble. Of course,

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Speaker 1: over the last year, having adventures big and small has

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Speaker 1: proved challenging for many people. Travel has been restricted. Many

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Speaker 1: places where one might have an adventure, such as an

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Speaker 1: amusement park or museums, have been closed. Some of that

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Speaker 1: is changing now, but even so, when we get busy

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Speaker 1: and when we have many responsibilities, coming up with new

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Speaker 1: adventures can be difficult. But don't worry. Life itself can

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Speaker 1: be an adventure, and one of The best ways to

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Speaker 1: deepen memories is to look for ways to make normal

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Speaker 1: activities a little more exciting. Let's say you need groceries.

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Speaker 1: Who doesn't. You could do your normal shopping, but add

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Speaker 1: on a stop to a farmer's market where you've never

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Speaker 1: been before, or try a specialty or international grocery store

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Speaker 1: and score some items that are completely new to you.

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Speaker 1: You might have a friend join you on a grocery

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Speaker 1: store trip and turn it into a social experience. Or

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Speaker 1: try a family grocery store competition. If there are four

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Speaker 1: of you, you form two teams and split the list

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Speaker 1: who can finish first. If you normally sit in your

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Speaker 1: car reading emails during your kid's gymnastics class, why not

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Speaker 1: check on a map for interesting locations within a one

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Speaker 1: mile radius. You could drive there, windows, shop at a

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Speaker 1: yarn or aquarium store, or go for a walk in

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Speaker 1: a park and see a public art installation. You're basically

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Speaker 1: still shuttling your kid around, but now this task has

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Speaker 1: become an adventure. Don't worry about the email. It will

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Speaker 1: still be there. Trust me, it is always there, even

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Speaker 1: if you aren't leaving the house. There might be ways

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Speaker 1: to recast normal activities as adventures. Have a picnic breakfast

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Speaker 1: if you're supervising kids as you always do, build a

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Speaker 1: fort in the backyard. Turn family clean up time into

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Speaker 1: a relay race. The point is to turn something you

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Speaker 1: would be doing anyway into an adventure. You figure out

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Speaker 1: what would make the experience more memorable. By doing so,

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Speaker 1: you turn time that would normally slip unnoticed into the

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Speaker 1: past into something that stands out. The more we do that,

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Speaker 1: the more time we feel we have. Time feels thick

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Speaker 1: and rich instead of like sand always slipping through the

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Speaker 1: hour glass. So if you are unclear how to fit

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Speaker 1: a big adventure or little adventure into your week, think

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Speaker 1: through your daily activities. Think through your usual routine. What

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Speaker 1: could you change even a little. There are probably lots

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Speaker 1: of ideas if you put a little thought into it,

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Speaker 1: and the payoff is pretty big. In the meantime, This

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Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear

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