WEBVTT - Picture yourself a year from now

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip, like another one this week, is to engage

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<v Speaker 1>in a bit of mental time travel. Picture yourself a

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<v Speaker 1>year from now. What do you hope daily life will

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<v Speaker 1>be like. Making some reasonable hopes can give you ideas

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<v Speaker 1>on how to make those hopes come to be. This

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<v Speaker 1>episode is first airing in late August. Many children go

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<v Speaker 1>back to school around this time of year, and so

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<v Speaker 1>the changing seasons and slanting light carry with them a

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<v Speaker 1>sense of time passing. Children move up a grade, and

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<v Speaker 1>so you can see progress in their lives as they

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<v Speaker 1>learn new schedules or go to new schools. It is

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<v Speaker 1>reasonable to expect that a child who is starting fourth

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<v Speaker 1>grade this fall will be starting fifth grade next fall.

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<v Speaker 1>But in adult life, all of this is less obvious.

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<v Speaker 1>It is not always clear if we are moving forward

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<v Speaker 1>or backwards or sideways. And while we might think about

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<v Speaker 1>big things that will be different, our lives are lived

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<v Speaker 1>in hours, and the day to day experience of our

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<v Speaker 1>hours can change a lot about our happiness. I maintain

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<v Speaker 1>that many big things are changeable in a year, but

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<v Speaker 1>I suspect that from many listeners, the big pieces of

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<v Speaker 1>your life are probably good. You are in a good job,

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<v Speaker 1>you love your friends and family. What tends to spark

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<v Speaker 1>annoyance are the little things. The meetings that go on

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<v Speaker 1>too long, the copious emails, the commute that features too

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<v Speaker 1>much traffic and probably doesn't have to happen as many

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<v Speaker 1>times as it does, that the kids wine for screens,

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<v Speaker 1>and that you are not getting enough time for your

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<v Speaker 1>own hobbies. So let's look at those. Picture yourself in

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<v Speaker 1>a year. Think about what a typical day would look like.

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<v Speaker 1>What about a normal Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. What would

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<v Speaker 1>you be doing. Maybe you are fantasizing about a quiet

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<v Speaker 1>morning cup of coffee, or maybe you are fantasizing about

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<v Speaker 1>enjoying a conversation with a friend or family member. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>something about the way you get ready has changed. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>you are spending more work time on particular projects. What

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<v Speaker 1>are you eating for lunch and what is your lunch

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<v Speaker 1>experience like? What sort of breaks do you take during

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<v Speaker 1>the day. What do your evenings look like? Maybe you

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<v Speaker 1>are making time to read or for some interest that

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<v Speaker 1>you feel doesn't get your time now, what does your

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<v Speaker 1>bedtime ritual look like, or you're sleeping situation. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know the answer for any of these questions for you,

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<v Speaker 1>but really picturing yourself one year from now allows you

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<v Speaker 1>to figure out what is realistic. Most of us don't

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<v Speaker 1>imagine ourselves in flying cars a year from now, and

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<v Speaker 1>we recognize that we probably won't have earned a new

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<v Speaker 1>four year degree in one year. We can picture ourselves

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<v Speaker 1>as ourselves, but we can see what might be a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit different, and that can allow us to think

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<v Speaker 1>about changes that would help bring that future about. If

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<v Speaker 1>you want to do different work at your company, you

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<v Speaker 1>can work on convincing your organization that this is the

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<v Speaker 1>right path. If you fantasize about sleeping in a less

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<v Speaker 1>cluttered bedroom, you can work on clearing it out and

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<v Speaker 1>prettying it up. If you normally eat at your desk,

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<v Speaker 1>but your future self is having a lovely looking sandwich

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<v Speaker 1>in the park, well time to start building that habit.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe it won't happen every day. It probably won't happen

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<v Speaker 1>every day, but in a year, if you make it

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<v Speaker 1>a priority, I'm guessing you can start eating that way

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<v Speaker 1>more often than not. So as the new school year

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<v Speaker 1>starts and the seasons change. Think about what you would

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<v Speaker 1>like your life to look like when the season's change

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<v Speaker 1>a year from now. The big pieces will likely be

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<v Speaker 1>the same, but some things will be different. What will

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<v Speaker 1>those things be? Now you know what to work on

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<v Speaker 1>and you can give the next year some real purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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

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