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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I 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 to borrow a hobby if you are

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Speaker 1: unsure what might be worth pursuing in your free time,

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Speaker 1: see what your friends are doing and try these things out.

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Speaker 1: You will learn something about yourself, whether you decide you

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Speaker 1: like the new hobby or not. In research for my

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Speaker 1: forthcoming book, Tranquility by Tuesday, I heard from a lot

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Speaker 1: of people who wanted more leisure time in their lives.

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Speaker 1: And people certainly were busy, but many did have an

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Speaker 1: hour or two a day that wasn't completely spoken for.

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Speaker 1: The deeper issue is that they didn't have much compelling

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Speaker 1: and reasonably accessible that they wanted to do with that time.

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Speaker 1: When you feel super busy with work and family, it

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Speaker 1: can be hard to think through these things. We stopped

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Speaker 1: doing things we once enjoyed, and then eventually you find

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Speaker 1: yourself without any hobbies at all, and that is a

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Speaker 1: real loss. Having interests besides work and family helps keep

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Speaker 1: us interesting. Plus, hobbies tend to be fun, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that is why people do them. So how can you

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Speaker 1: solve this problem? If you are feeling like maybe you'd

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Speaker 1: like a hobby, but you're at a loss of what

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Speaker 1: to try. You could borrow a hobby from a friend.

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Speaker 1: In many cases, your friends probably have similar lifestyles to yours,

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Speaker 1: So you could borrow a hobby from a friend and

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Speaker 1: see if it works. It's magic for you. This is

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Speaker 1: pretty straightforward. A friend mentions that he plays tennis, You

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Speaker 1: ask him to take you out one day to hit

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Speaker 1: some balls around. You ask a friend who loves scrap

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Speaker 1: booking to help you make a few pages for a

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Speaker 1: book on your daughter's graduation. You try it out with

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Speaker 1: your friends guidance, and see how it goes. If nothing else,

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Speaker 1: you will enjoy spending some time with your friend and

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Speaker 1: learning that you don't like something is useful in and

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Speaker 1: of itself. That is mental energy that you can now release.

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Speaker 1: No need to torture yourself with thoughts of how you

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Speaker 1: should be playing tennis or scrap booking or what have you. No,

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't, it's just not your thing. But you might

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Speaker 1: find out that, hey, it's kind of fun to play

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Speaker 1: cards or do woodworking or puzzles or gardening or whatever

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Speaker 1: it is that your friend likes. Work in your friend's

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Speaker 1: garden for a few hours here and there trying it out.

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Speaker 1: When you decide that you do, in fact enjoy this,

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Speaker 1: you can get a few pots and plants and start small.

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Speaker 1: You've established your interest first before committing much capital to

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Speaker 1: the project, which is a much better approach than buying

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Speaker 1: all the things and the hope that the habit will

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Speaker 1: take That ladder approach is a great way to wind

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Speaker 1: up with a lot of unused equipment cluttering up space

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Speaker 1: in the garage and your attic and your cupboards. And

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Speaker 1: while you might want a hobby, you definitely don't want that.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me

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Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at Before Breakfast pod.

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Speaker 1: That's b the number four, then Breakfast p o D.

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