Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to find new ways to do nothing. Don't
Speaker 1: assume that TV and social media are the only doable
Speaker 1: activities when you are worn out. Try asking what your
Speaker 1: body or your mind truly needs. As longtime listeners know,
Speaker 1: I believe in making the most of our leisure time.
Speaker 1: Our evenings and weekends are too precious to fritter away.
Speaker 1: But with work, family, and other commitments, sometimes you may
Speaker 1: be too exhausted for various adventures to sound appealing. In fact,
Speaker 1: you may not feel like doing much of anything. I
Speaker 1: often hear from people that they want to do nothing
Speaker 1: in the evenings or on the weekends, and I get
Speaker 1: the sense of exhaustion. The issue is that for a
Speaker 1: lot of people, doing nothing actually means watching TV or
Speaker 1: scrolling through social media, but that isn't nothing. With a
Speaker 1: little thought, you might be able to identify more satisfying
Speaker 1: ways of getting the rest that your body and brain
Speaker 1: are craving. For instance, sometimes when you want to do nothing,
Speaker 1: your brain may be done for the day. You don't
Speaker 1: want to figure out anything else or make any more decisions,
Speaker 1: or maybe it is that you are done with people
Speaker 1: for the day. You may not be able to tolerate
Speaker 1: another conversation or email exchange. If that is the case,
Speaker 1: then maybe paging through a magazine in silence somewhere will
Speaker 1: feel better than scrolling around online. Or perhaps you might
Speaker 1: go for a quiet walk somewhere to recharge. No one
Speaker 1: will be talking to you but the birds, and that
Speaker 1: can be great. If your body is tired, then maybe
Speaker 1: you could sit outside and watch the leaves, or take
Speaker 1: a bubble bath inside, or you can snuggle up with
Speaker 1: a pet and read a book. You could look through
Speaker 1: old photos or flip through a coffee table book. I
Speaker 1: grab some of those when I go to the library
Speaker 1: for just this reason. All of those activities will allow
Speaker 1: you to be mindfully still. Or if you do want
Speaker 1: to scroll around online, consider making a list of favorite
Speaker 1: blogs you can check when you are tired. Or here's
Speaker 1: an idea, take a nap. If you are tired because
Speaker 1: you are sleep deprived, getting a nap might help you
Speaker 1: feel a lot more energetic afterwards. The point is that
Speaker 1: even nothing means doing something, so you want to make
Speaker 1: sure that whatever something you are doing is actually helping
Speaker 1: with your sense of exhaustion. Refreshing political headlines or looking
Speaker 1: at advertisements on social media sites is probably not going
Speaker 1: to do that, So find new ways to do nothing
Speaker 1: and you might actually get the relaxation that you are
Speaker 1: craving in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,
Speaker 1: or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura
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