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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of my 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 about one of the best New Year's

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Speaker 1: resolutions you can make. It's to get outside for twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes a day. Unlike plenty of other resolutions, this one

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Speaker 1: will probably put you in a better mood, and if

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Speaker 1: you live somewhere cold, dark and gloomy, it can make

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Speaker 1: winter seem more doable. I first came across this idea

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Speaker 1: for this resolution via the Humans Outside Project. This is

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Speaker 1: run by a woman named Amy Bouschatz who lives in

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Speaker 1: Alaska with her family. Now Alaska might not seem like

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Speaker 1: the best place to get outside for twenty minutes a day,

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Speaker 1: especially in say January, but Amy has committed to doing

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Speaker 1: it and to enjoying what the natural world has to offer.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes what the natural world has to offer is absolutely spectacular,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes being outside for twenty minutes a day means

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Speaker 1: a quick walk outside the airport before a long day

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Speaker 1: of flying. But either way, fresh air is a known

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Speaker 1: mood booster. Even cold, sleety conditions can make you feel

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Speaker 1: more energized by the time you go back inside, so

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Speaker 1: I decided to adopt this as one of my quarterly

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Speaker 1: resolutions during a recent winter, and I have to say

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Speaker 1: I am a big fan. Pennsylvania, where I live isn't Alaska,

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Speaker 1: but still winter can be cold, icy, and generally not

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Speaker 1: that pleasant. There's always a tendency to hibernate, especially when

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Speaker 1: the sun sets at four thirty pm around the solstice.

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Speaker 1: But committing to get outside for twenty minutes a day

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Speaker 1: changed my relationship with winter. Because I knew I would

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Speaker 1: be outside, I decided to get better outdoor gear. I

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Speaker 1: finally bought waterproof boots so I could wait around outside

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Speaker 1: in the slush, and shockingly, I became much more willing

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Speaker 1: to do so. I bought a long coat that kept

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Speaker 1: the chill off my legs. I also made a choice

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Speaker 1: to buy good winter running gear so I could run

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Speaker 1: outside instead of on the treadmill as long as conditions

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Speaker 1: were safe to do so. I vastly prefer the outside

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Speaker 1: scenery to a boring treadmill, so this improved my mood

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Speaker 1: right there. Since it's generally better to get outside during

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Speaker 1: daylight hours, setting this intention forced me to look at

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Speaker 1: my schedule each day and figure out when I could

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Speaker 1: take a break. In summer, you could go outside after work,

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Speaker 1: but if it's only light from seven thirty am to

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Speaker 1: four thirty pm, that might not be the case. But

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Speaker 1: it's the rare work day that wouldn't be improved by

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Speaker 1: a quick jaunt outside. I made sure to put on

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Speaker 1: my boots and do this occasionally, and even on challenging days,

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Speaker 1: the commitment to get outside forced me to pay attention

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Speaker 1: to the winter landscape and it's old beauties. One day,

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Speaker 1: I had to get my minutes in by walking around

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Speaker 1: the airport parking garage at the Philadelphia Airport, but the

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Speaker 1: sky was actually quite beautiful as the winter sun was

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Speaker 1: setting over. Now, yes, I might have been happier to

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Speaker 1: see a tropical sunset on a beach, but hey, winter

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Speaker 1: beauty is beauty all the same. Now, if you live

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Speaker 1: somewhere tropical, you probably don't need to set a resolution

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Speaker 1: to get outside for twenty minutes a day, but for

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Speaker 1: the rest of us, i'd encourage the idea. That's why

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Speaker 1: I'm setting this as a quarterly goal again this year. Well,

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Speaker 1: possibly the day I'm in the hospital delivering my baby,

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Speaker 1: I might not make it outside for twenty minutes, but

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Speaker 1: the other days sure why not getting outside can help

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Speaker 1: us experience winter in a whole new way. In the meantime,

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

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

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