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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to plan each weekend twice. By planning

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Speaker 1: about a week ahead and then a day or two ahead,

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Speaker 1: you increase the chances of having a weekend that is

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Speaker 1: really worth celebrating. Longtime listeners know that I like to

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Speaker 1: plan my upcoming weeks on Fridays, on Friday, or sometimes

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Speaker 1: even Thursday. If I feel like I'm getting ahead of

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Speaker 1: the game, I look at my upcoming Monday to Sunday

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Speaker 1: week and figure out what needs to happen and what

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see happen. That means that I am

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Speaker 1: planning the weekend that is after the upcoming one, that

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Speaker 1: is the one that is eight to nine days into

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Speaker 1: the future. Now, obviously this needs to be a relatively

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Speaker 1: loose plan, as the weather can change and people get

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Speaker 1: social invitations and in general stuff comes up. But if

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Speaker 1: there are any big anchor events or adventures to plan,

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Speaker 1: or logistics that are complicated, all this can be worked

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Speaker 1: out far ahead of time. Then when I am planning

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Speaker 1: on Thursday or Friday, I look at the weekend that

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Speaker 1: is coming up soon that is the one that is

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Speaker 1: only a day or two into the future. Now the

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Speaker 1: weather forecast is known and the contours of the weekend

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Speaker 1: are more clear, I can make a more detailed plan.

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Speaker 1: I'd been doing this for a while before I realized

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Speaker 1: that planning weekends twice was actually a good idea. It's

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Speaker 1: a quirk of when I plan, because this wouldn't happen

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Speaker 1: if I planned on Sunday nights or on Monday mornings.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's a good quirk. In many cases,

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Speaker 1: people treat weekends as an afterthought.

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Speaker 2: We are so tired from the week that they get

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Speaker 2: to the weekend and think they want to do nothing.

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Speaker 2: But it is impossible to do nothing. You will do something,

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Speaker 2: but it might not be nearly as rejuvenating as if

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Speaker 2: you had thought a little bit about it. Or sometimes

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Speaker 2: weekends become a forced march of chores and children's activities.

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Speaker 2: You just deal with what urgently has to be done

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Speaker 2: and you don't think about what you would like to do.

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Speaker 2: That can make a weekend feel like not much fun

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Speaker 2: at all. Planning eight to nine days ahead lets you

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Speaker 2: get the lay of the land and make plans for

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Speaker 2: any bigger things. It's going to be hard to do

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Speaker 2: a big day trip or find a sitter, or get

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Speaker 2: a reservation at that hot place, or tickets for an

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Speaker 2: in demand show. If you don't think about your weekend

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Speaker 2: until Friday afternoon, and then you might not do anything

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Speaker 2: Friday evening because you won't have managed your energy for

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Speaker 2: that possibility. So get a rough plan a week ahead,

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Speaker 2: and then you get to refine it close to the

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Speaker 2: event itself. You can tweak based on whether and other

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Speaker 2: things that come up. You've been thinking about the weekend

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Speaker 2: at least to a degree during the week because you

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Speaker 2: have a rough plan, and so you may come up

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Speaker 2: with more ideas are ways of doing things even better.

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Speaker 2: In general, when we plan things twice, we wind up

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Speaker 2: taking them more seriously and spending the time better than

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Speaker 2: if we only do one last minute plan. Now, a

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Speaker 2: last minute plan is definitely better than nothing, but I

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Speaker 2: take my weekends seriously. I think in a busy life,

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Speaker 2: leisure time is too precious to be totally leisurely about leisure.

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Speaker 2: I also want to figure out fun ways to spend

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Speaker 2: time with my family members. My kids are growing up.

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Speaker 2: They'll be out of the house before I know it.

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Speaker 2: If we have the chance to do cool things together.

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Speaker 2: Why not take it. If you feel the same, then

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Speaker 2: maybe you'd enjoy planning your weekends twice too. Each planning

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Speaker 2: session really only has to take a few minutes, but

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Speaker 2: do this enough and you'll get weekends that are worth

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Speaker 2: looking forward to. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,

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Speaker 2: or feedback, you can reach.

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Speaker 1: Me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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