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Speaker 2: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is to try something bucket list adjacent.
Speaker 1: If you have.
Speaker 2: Big dreams that are hard to pull off in the
Speaker 2: near term, you can keep yourself dreaming by doing things
Speaker 2: that are related. These little adventures can be fun and
Speaker 2: are worth prioritizing over other things. So longtime listeners know
Speaker 2: that I am always encouraging people to make lists of
Speaker 2: dreams and goals. I also know that when many people
Speaker 2: construct their bucket lists, the fun can be tinged with
Speaker 2: some frustration. After all, you might like to visit Thailand,
Speaker 2: or hike the Appalachian Trail, or singing Carnegie Hall, or
Speaker 2: something along those lines, but most of those are not
Speaker 2: easy to pull off in the near term. I, for instance,
Speaker 2: keep putting on my bucket list that I want to
Speaker 2: sing in a performance of Box B Minor Mass. But
Speaker 2: while you can buy a plane ticket somewhere you would
Speaker 2: like to go, it is a little harder to arrange
Speaker 2: for the performance of a large scale choral work with
Speaker 2: an orchestra. I have gotten close a few times, like
Speaker 2: when the choir I regularly sing with was scheduled to
Speaker 2: perform the B Minor Mass in the spring of twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: but you can guess what happened with that. Anyway. I
Speaker 2: am hoping to sing the Mass at some point, but
Speaker 2: in the meantime, choirs and orchestras do perform the B
Speaker 2: Minor Mass from time to time, and if those performances
Speaker 2: happen within two hours or so of my house, I
Speaker 2: can get a ticket and go. I went to one
Speaker 2: performance a few weeks before this episode aired, and it
Speaker 2: was a great way to stay familiar with the piece
Speaker 2: As I followed along in my score. I wasn't singing
Speaker 2: it myself, but I was experiencing the mass. It was
Speaker 2: bucket list adjacent. Maybe you too have goals that are
Speaker 2: hard to pull off in the near term. You'd like
Speaker 2: to visit Thailand, but the travel budget isn't there, Or
Speaker 2: you have little kids and don't relish the idea of
Speaker 2: taking them on a twelve hour flight. But if you
Speaker 2: are planning to go out for a date night dinner
Speaker 2: with your partner at some point, maybe you could go
Speaker 2: to a Thai restaurant if there's one within an hour
Speaker 2: or so of your house. You could stream a movie
Speaker 2: or documentary set in Thailand that night, and check out
Speaker 2: some photo books about Thailand from your library. It's not
Speaker 2: going to Thailand, for sure, but it's Thailand adjacent. I
Speaker 2: don't think this is settling, really, it's more about helping
Speaker 2: with the anticipation. If something is truly a life goal,
Speaker 2: you may be able to pull it off at some point,
Speaker 2: and the more you can do in the meantime, the
Speaker 2: more excited you will be when it happens. You might
Speaker 2: learn more about yourself and your dream too. For instance,
Speaker 2: perhaps you've put hike the Appalachian Trail on your bucket list. Well,
Speaker 2: it is a long trail going through lots of states,
Speaker 2: but that means you could definitely hike two to three
Speaker 2: days of it at some point in the next year
Speaker 2: or two. Try it out, see how it goes. Talk
Speaker 2: to some through hikers if you meet them on the way.
Speaker 2: Maybe you will get more excited. Or maybe you will realize,
Speaker 2: as it is rainy and you are hiking on some
Speaker 2: really muddy and rocky terrain, that this isn't as great
Speaker 2: as you thought it would be, and so you won't
Speaker 2: need to waste energy thinking about this bucket list item
Speaker 2: that you you no longer want to have on your
Speaker 2: bucket list. Who knows how it will all turn out.
Speaker 2: What I do know is that doing things that our
Speaker 2: bucket list adjacent can help you learn what you like
Speaker 2: and what you don't like. We all want to have
Speaker 2: little adventures in our lives from time to time. Things
Speaker 2: that are pieces of big adventures can make excellent small
Speaker 2: adventures because there are probably elements that are really appealing
Speaker 2: to you. You can get some of the feeling of
Speaker 2: the big adventure even as you are just living your
Speaker 2: normal life. So make a bucket list and then look
Speaker 2: for little adventures that our bucket list adjacent. You will
Speaker 2: make life more interesting and maybe boost anticipation for future adventures.
Speaker 2: Or you'll come to see which big adventures you'd truly
Speaker 2: enjoy and which you wouldn't. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 2: our time.
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