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Speaker 2: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is to always have an athletic and a
Speaker 2: creative interest in your life. Doing so will give you
Speaker 2: more energy and make life feel more rich. So today's
Speaker 2: tip was inspired by a rule I have for my
Speaker 2: own five kids past mid elementary school or so. The
Speaker 2: children need to do something physical and something musical. You
Speaker 2: can do more, and they often do, but as they
Speaker 2: create their activity portfolio, they need to do some sport
Speaker 2: or physical activity at all times, and they need to
Speaker 2: play a musical instrument or sing in some sort of ensemble.
Speaker 2: I figure that this rule will help them be well
Speaker 2: rounded and build their skills and stay healthy. This rule
Speaker 2: also just helps me as a management matter. With five kids,
Speaker 2: that can be easy to lose sight of whether any
Speaker 2: individual child is appropriately active and social. But as long
Speaker 2: as every kid is doing something physical and something musical,
Speaker 2: then we should be good. Anyway, as I was describing
Speaker 2: this household rule to someone, I had an epiphany. This
Speaker 2: is a pretty good rule for adults too. We should
Speaker 2: all do something physical just for general health and energy reasons.
Speaker 2: I understand not everyone is into music. But if we
Speaker 2: broaden that part of the rule to doing something artistic
Speaker 2: or otherwise creative, that seems like a reasonable goal too.
Speaker 2: We can all look at our lives in the portfolio
Speaker 2: of our leisure hours to make sure we are doing
Speaker 2: something active and something creative. The active could be anything
Speaker 2: walking or running with a friend, swimming laps, taking an
Speaker 2: exercise class, lifting weights under the guidance of a trainer,
Speaker 2: playing on a softball team. The creative part might require
Speaker 2: a little more thought, as fewer adults build such things
Speaker 2: into their lives on a regular basis. But if you
Speaker 2: set this rule for yourself, it might nudge you to
Speaker 2: think through a creative hobby. You could journal, You could
Speaker 2: write stories, you could write poems. You could do needlework
Speaker 2: or woodworking. You could design a garden. You could paint
Speaker 2: or sketch. If you don't know how to do something
Speaker 2: creative but have always been interested, you are in luck,
Speaker 2: as there are hosts of YouTube video is demonstrating every
Speaker 2: skill and technique you can think of, plus ones you
Speaker 2: probably haven't thought of. Either. You could find a local
Speaker 2: studio or school and start taking classes. If you used
Speaker 2: to play an instrument, you might be able to rent
Speaker 2: that instrument, just like kids in school bands do, and
Speaker 2: start playing it again. Electronic keyboards are reasonably affordable if
Speaker 2: you played the piano at one time but don't have
Speaker 2: room for a grand in your apartment. Most reasonably sized
Speaker 2: cities have community choruses, or if you attend a house
Speaker 2: of worship, you might look into the offerings there. In
Speaker 2: any case, setting the goal of something active and something
Speaker 2: creative will help you think about nurturing these parts of you.
Speaker 2: Adults tend to spend most of our time working or
Speaker 2: caring for family members, with some leisure like watching TV
Speaker 2: thrown into the mix. Setting a goal of doing something
Speaker 2: active and something creative encourages healthy choices we all need
Speaker 2: to move, and it will also make life more interesting.
Speaker 2: If a colleague asks on Monday morning what you did
Speaker 2: over the weekend, you might think that the answer is
Speaker 2: often nothing. But if you went on a group bike
Speaker 2: ride on Saturday morning and played in your string quartet
Speaker 2: on Sunday, well that is a different matter entirely. You
Speaker 2: just have a lot more to think about and talk about.
Speaker 2: If you have something active and something creative in your
Speaker 2: life at all times. I'd love to hear about it.
Speaker 2: You can tell me about it at Laura at Laura
Speaker 2: vandercam dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 2: for listening and here's to making the most of our time.
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