Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is for the folks who are big organizing things.
Speaker 2: When you are considering starting something new, put a toe
Speaker 2: in the water and see how it feels. Trying out
Speaker 2: something in a small way can provide insight into whether
Speaker 2: you'd like to pursue it in a bigger way. I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people are building back their routines
Speaker 2: these days after a long time of having our old
Speaker 2: ways of life suspended. In this makeup for lost time
Speaker 2: frame of mind, we often get really ambitious. It can
Speaker 2: be fun to imagine, let's say, forming a supper club
Speaker 2: with three other couples, with a different couple hosting everyone
Speaker 2: for dinner in their home each month, getting to see
Speaker 2: friends every month, and hosting a lot of dinner parties
Speaker 2: sounds great, so why not get it on the books?
Speaker 2: And certainly it could be amazing. But if you have
Speaker 2: never done a supper club before, and particularly not with
Speaker 2: these folks, it might also prove to be cumbersome to
Speaker 2: coordinate everyone's schedules. Do you need to cancel your November
Speaker 2: and December gatherings for the holidays, and what about the summer,
Speaker 2: when people's schedules tend to be different, what about dietary considerations.
Speaker 2: You may have just signed yourself up for dealing with
Speaker 2: a lot of logistics, and when things peter out because
Speaker 2: you didn't do it in the summer, and then one
Speaker 2: of those couples seems to travel a lot in September
Speaker 2: and can't be nailed down, you might feel like you
Speaker 2: failed so in instead, why not just put a toe
Speaker 2: in the water.
Speaker 1: Invite those three couples to dinner at your home this
Speaker 1: month and enjoy it. If someone suggests that it would
Speaker 1: be fun to do it again, encourage that idea. You
Speaker 1: could certainly float the supper club concept or suggest putting
Speaker 1: two months on the calendar to see how it goes,
Speaker 1: but you don't necessarily need to formalize it forever at
Speaker 1: this point. Just see how it feels and go from there.
Speaker 1: Or maybe you've been thinking about how nice it would
Speaker 1: be to have a running buddy before you invite a
Speaker 1: friend to run with you every Tuesday at five point
Speaker 1: fifteen am from now until the end of time, why
Speaker 1: not invite her to run with you this Tuesday and
Speaker 1: try it out. Do you enjoy the time together, do
Speaker 1: you run at about the same pace? Does the time
Speaker 1: work for you both and you have similar attitudes about punctuality.
Speaker 1: Plan the run as a one off event, enjoy it
Speaker 1: as such, and if you want to do it again,
Speaker 1: do it the next week. After a few Tuesday at
Speaker 1: five point fifteen runs, you can decide to always run together. Well,
Speaker 1: probably not always if Tuesday is Christmas or one of
Speaker 1: you is in Australia, but a lot of Tuesdays. However,
Speaker 1: if you realize that five point fifteen feels too early
Speaker 1: to run, or your friend is a lot faster than you,
Speaker 1: you can just do the runs occasionally. No need to
Speaker 1: commit to multi year plans in advance. Whatever the group
Speaker 1: a bridge club, a book club, a playgroup, try planning
Speaker 1: a single gathering and seeing how it goes now to
Speaker 1: be sure. I am a huge fan of recurring gatherings.
Speaker 1: People who do see their friends regularly are absolutely the
Speaker 1: ones who have a standing date for an early Tuesday run,
Speaker 1: or who always get together for supper on the first
Speaker 1: Friday of the month. Recurring gatherings ensure that we get
Speaker 1: together with people we care about more frequently and with
Speaker 1: a lot less tedious planning, but you can't always predict
Speaker 1: the chemistry ahead of time, So before you invest in
Speaker 1: creating a long term commitment, give it a try a
Speaker 1: time or two first to see whether it's actually something
Speaker 1: you want to do every week or every month. By
Speaker 1: putting a toe in the water, you can get a
Speaker 1: feel for whether the recurring activity would live up to
Speaker 1: your hopes. If it will wonderful, plan away, and if
Speaker 1: it may not, well, just enjoy it occasionally and seek
Speaker 1: out other waters where you may want to dip your
Speaker 1: toes in the meantime.
Speaker 2: This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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