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 we all need adventures in our lives.
Speaker 1: If adventures feel hard to come by right now, then
Speaker 1: your best bet is to recast something you are already
Speaker 1: doing as an adventure. Doing so can change the experience entirely.
Speaker 1: For the past year, I've been researching how time management
Speaker 1: advice plays out in real life for my next book,
Speaker 1: Tranquility by Tuesday. One of my rules is to plan
Speaker 1: in one big adventure and one little adventure per week.
Speaker 1: The big adventure might be something taking half a weekend day.
Speaker 1: The little adventure could just be an hour or so,
Speaker 1: but it needs to be something there Ruble. Of course,
Speaker 1: over the last year, having adventures big and small has
Speaker 1: proved challenging for many people. Travel has been restricted. Many
Speaker 1: places where one might have an adventure, such as an
Speaker 1: amusement park or museums, have been closed. Some of that
Speaker 1: is changing now, but even so, when we get busy
Speaker 1: and when we have many responsibilities, coming up with new
Speaker 1: adventures can be difficult. But don't worry. Life itself can
Speaker 1: be an adventure, and one of The best ways to
Speaker 1: deepen memories is to look for ways to make normal
Speaker 1: activities a little more exciting. Let's say you need groceries.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't. You could do your normal shopping, but add
Speaker 1: on a stop to a farmer's market where you've never
Speaker 1: been before, or try a specialty or international grocery store
Speaker 1: and score some items that are completely new to you.
Speaker 1: You might have a friend join you on a grocery
Speaker 1: store trip and turn it into a social experience. Or
Speaker 1: try a family grocery store competition. If there are four
Speaker 1: of you, you form two teams and split the list
Speaker 1: who can finish first. If you normally sit in your
Speaker 1: car reading emails during your kid's gymnastics class, why not
Speaker 1: check on a map for interesting locations within a one
Speaker 1: mile radius. You could drive there, windows, shop at a
Speaker 1: yarn or aquarium store, or go for a walk in
Speaker 1: a park and see a public art installation. You're basically
Speaker 1: still shuttling your kid around, but now this task has
Speaker 1: become an adventure. Don't worry about the email. It will
Speaker 1: still be there. Trust me, it is always there, even
Speaker 1: if you aren't leaving the house. There might be ways
Speaker 1: to recast normal activities as adventures. Have a picnic breakfast
Speaker 1: if you're supervising kids as you always do, build a
Speaker 1: fort in the backyard. Turn family clean up time into
Speaker 1: a relay race. The point is to turn something you
Speaker 1: would be doing anyway into an adventure. You figure out
Speaker 1: what would make the experience more memorable. By doing so,
Speaker 1: you turn time that would normally slip unnoticed into the
Speaker 1: past into something that stands out. The more we do that,
Speaker 1: the more time we feel we have. Time feels thick
Speaker 1: and rich instead of like sand always slipping through the
Speaker 1: hour glass. So if you are unclear how to fit
Speaker 1: a big adventure or little adventure into your week, think
Speaker 1: through your daily activities. Think through your usual routine. What
Speaker 1: could you change even a little. There are probably lots
Speaker 1: of ideas if you put a little thought into it,
Speaker 1: and the payoff is pretty big. 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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