Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to create occasions for sharing. When you can
Speaker 1: engineer some abundance into your life so you can share
Speaker 1: your abundance with others, It might be easier than you think, so.
Speaker 1: I recently heard of a couple who bought two extra
Speaker 1: season tickets to their local college basketball team's games. The
Speaker 1: upside of that decision was that they could always invite
Speaker 1: people to join them. They had a ready option for
Speaker 1: suggesting a get together with anyone they met or knew
Speaker 1: but wanted to get to know better. If the new
Speaker 1: neighbors mentioned watching a game on TV, they could invite
Speaker 1: them to go with them to a live event. If
Speaker 1: someone had them over for dinner, they could reciprocate by
Speaker 1: offering them the seats. They consciously generated a surplus and
Speaker 1: thus created occasions for sharing. I think this is a
Speaker 1: great idea for nurturing relationships now. To be sure, getting
Speaker 1: extra season tickets anywhere could be pricey, but there are
Speaker 1: lots of cheaper ways to generate abundance that can then
Speaker 1: be shared. I bought a few extra tickets to the
Speaker 1: middle school musical, so my daughter could ask friends to
Speaker 1: go along. You can get season tickets to some local
Speaker 1: venue just for you and your significant other, knowing you
Speaker 1: won't be able to use them for a certain number
Speaker 1: of weeks, but that will nudge you to actively look
Speaker 1: for people to pass those along to. Gardeners tend to
Speaker 1: generate a b abundance, whether they want to or not.
Speaker 1: There's that joke about people locking their cars in certain
Speaker 1: small Midwestern towns, so neighbors don't leave bags of zucchini
Speaker 1: on their seats. You can make extra loaves of bread
Speaker 1: if you're baking, or extra cupcakes. Someone will be glad
Speaker 1: to have them. If you are renting a house at
Speaker 1: the beach for a week or two, you might get
Speaker 1: an extra bedroom beyond what you need, so you can
Speaker 1: invite friends, relations, and so forth to come for a
Speaker 1: night and enjoy the vacation destination with you. The idea
Speaker 1: is to look for fairly easy ways to generate some
Speaker 1: sort of desirable surplus. Now, perhaps people don't truly want
Speaker 1: your extra zucchini, but a bag of homegrown, in seasoned
Speaker 1: tomatoes or farm fresh eggs from your chickens is an
Speaker 1: entirely different matter. If you are a fan of a
Speaker 1: team or a destination, people might enjoy catching some of
Speaker 1: that enthusiasm from you. Creating an abundance allows you to
Speaker 1: share it, so why not look for opportunities in the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
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