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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 2: Today's tip is to try something bucket list adjacent.

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Speaker 1: If you have.

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Speaker 2: Big dreams that are hard to pull off in the

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Speaker 2: near term, you can keep yourself dreaming by doing things

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Speaker 2: that are related. These little adventures can be fun and

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Speaker 2: are worth prioritizing over other things. So longtime listeners know

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Speaker 2: that I am always encouraging people to make lists of

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Speaker 2: dreams and goals. I also know that when many people

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Speaker 2: construct their bucket lists, the fun can be tinged with

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Speaker 2: some frustration. After all, you might like to visit Thailand,

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Speaker 2: or hike the Appalachian Trail, or singing Carnegie Hall, or

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Speaker 2: something along those lines, but most of those are not

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Speaker 2: easy to pull off in the near term. I, for instance,

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Speaker 2: keep putting on my bucket list that I want to

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Speaker 2: sing in a performance of Box B Minor Mass. But

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Speaker 2: while you can buy a plane ticket somewhere you would

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Speaker 2: like to go, it is a little harder to arrange

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Speaker 2: for the performance of a large scale choral work with

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Speaker 2: an orchestra. I have gotten close a few times, like

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Speaker 2: when the choir I regularly sing with was scheduled to

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Speaker 2: perform the B Minor Mass in the spring of twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: but you can guess what happened with that. Anyway. I

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Speaker 2: am hoping to sing the Mass at some point, but

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Speaker 2: in the meantime, choirs and orchestras do perform the B

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Speaker 2: Minor Mass from time to time, and if those performances

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Speaker 2: happen within two hours or so of my house, I

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Speaker 2: can get a ticket and go. I went to one

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Speaker 2: performance a few weeks before this episode aired, and it

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Speaker 2: was a great way to stay familiar with the piece

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Speaker 2: As I followed along in my score. I wasn't singing

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Speaker 2: it myself, but I was experiencing the mass. It was

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Speaker 2: bucket list adjacent. Maybe you too have goals that are

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Speaker 2: hard to pull off in the near term. You'd like

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Speaker 2: to visit Thailand, but the travel budget isn't there, Or

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Speaker 2: you have little kids and don't relish the idea of

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Speaker 2: taking them on a twelve hour flight. But if you

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Speaker 2: are planning to go out for a date night dinner

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Speaker 2: with your partner at some point, maybe you could go

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Speaker 2: to a Thai restaurant if there's one within an hour

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Speaker 2: or so of your house. You could stream a movie

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Speaker 2: or documentary set in Thailand that night, and check out

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Speaker 2: some photo books about Thailand from your library. It's not

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Speaker 2: going to Thailand, for sure, but it's Thailand adjacent. I

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Speaker 2: don't think this is settling, really, it's more about helping

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Speaker 2: with the anticipation. If something is truly a life goal,

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Speaker 2: you may be able to pull it off at some point,

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Speaker 2: and the more you can do in the meantime, the

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Speaker 2: more excited you will be when it happens. You might

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Speaker 2: learn more about yourself and your dream too. For instance,

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Speaker 2: perhaps you've put hike the Appalachian Trail on your bucket list. Well,

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Speaker 2: it is a long trail going through lots of states,

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Speaker 2: but that means you could definitely hike two to three

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Speaker 2: days of it at some point in the next year

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Speaker 2: or two. Try it out, see how it goes. Talk

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Speaker 2: to some through hikers if you meet them on the way.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you will get more excited. Or maybe you will realize,

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Speaker 2: as it is rainy and you are hiking on some

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Speaker 2: really muddy and rocky terrain, that this isn't as great

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Speaker 2: as you thought it would be, and so you won't

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Speaker 2: need to waste energy thinking about this bucket list item

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Speaker 2: that you you no longer want to have on your

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Speaker 2: bucket list. Who knows how it will all turn out.

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Speaker 2: What I do know is that doing things that our

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Speaker 2: bucket list adjacent can help you learn what you like

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Speaker 2: and what you don't like. We all want to have

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Speaker 2: little adventures in our lives from time to time. Things

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Speaker 2: that are pieces of big adventures can make excellent small

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Speaker 2: adventures because there are probably elements that are really appealing

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Speaker 2: to you. You can get some of the feeling of

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Speaker 2: the big adventure even as you are just living your

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Speaker 2: normal life. So make a bucket list and then look

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Speaker 2: for little adventures that our bucket list adjacent. You will

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Speaker 2: make life more interesting and maybe boost anticipation for future adventures.

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Speaker 2: Or you'll come to see which big adventures you'd truly

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Speaker 2: enjoy and which you wouldn't. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 2: our time.

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