Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that if there is something you want
Speaker 1: to do, don't just intend to do it sometime. Get
Speaker 1: it on the calendar for a specific time. That way
Speaker 1: you will make sure it actually happens. If you're like
Speaker 1: a lot of people I hear from, you probably have
Speaker 1: museums or restaurants or hiking trails in your town that
Speaker 1: you have been meaning to go to for ages and
Speaker 1: you just haven't. Or maybe you have an old friend
Speaker 1: who lives just a few hours away and you keep
Speaker 1: meaning to go see her for a weekend, but here
Speaker 1: the years are ticking by. Call it the paradox of availability.
Speaker 1: When we could go to a museum or a hiking
Speaker 1: trail or a nearby friends home anytime we don't schedule
Speaker 1: the experience, we figure we'll do it sometime. If that
Speaker 1: museum fifteen minutes from your house is open from ten
Speaker 1: to five every Tuesday through Saturday, why would you possibly
Speaker 1: need to put it on your calendar. Here's why. If
Speaker 1: it's on your calendar, you will go. You, like many
Speaker 1: busy people, probably live by your calendar. So take advantage
Speaker 1: of that truth to use your calendar to build a
Speaker 1: full life schedule specific times for the things you've been
Speaker 1: meaning to do. That way, they will actually happen. During
Speaker 1: the worst days of the pandemic, when everywhere from children's
Speaker 1: museums to botanical gardens to ice skating required time tickets
Speaker 1: because of social distancing, a lot of people actually found
Speaker 1: it easier to have the experience as they wanted. Why
Speaker 1: because they had to make reservations, and then the reservations
Speaker 1: became entries on their calendars. By and large, what's on
Speaker 1: our calendars we do. Even now that timed tickets aren't
Speaker 1: required as often as they used to be, timed plans
Speaker 1: can still be valuable. Things that are theoretically as easy
Speaker 1: to do as hiking on a trail a mile from
Speaker 1: your house can wind up never happening when life's various
Speaker 1: crises and distractions intervene. So get the intention out of
Speaker 1: your head, hold a space for it, and let the
Speaker 1: business fall in place around it. Even when it's not
Speaker 1: necessary to plan ahead for external reasons like time to
Speaker 1: tickets or reservations, it can be really helpful for internal reasons.
Speaker 1: This is true for museum exhibits, you want to go
Speaker 1: to restaurants, you want to try, friends you want to
Speaker 1: have over, folks within driving distance, you want to visit,
Speaker 1: and more. If you want these things to happen, get
Speaker 1: them on the calendar for a specific time instead of
Speaker 1: nursing the vague intention to do them sometime. When you
Speaker 1: know they're coming up, you'll be able to anticipate them,
Speaker 1: and the odds of them actually happening will rise considerably.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
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