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

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to consider last minute get togethers. It is

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Speaker 1: not always necessary to plan far in advance. Sometimes you

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Speaker 1: can rally friends and family to gather spontaneously. So longtime

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Speaker 1: listeners know that I fully support planning ahead for things

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Speaker 1: that are important to you. For people with busy lives,

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Speaker 1: what we plan tends to happen. Well. What we mean

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Speaker 1: to do but don't get on the calendar has a

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Speaker 1: tendency to remain just a wish. Sometimes, though, an opportunity

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Speaker 1: for fun presents itself. When that is the case, there

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Speaker 1: is no reason not to act on it right away.

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Speaker 1: If you have an idea for a get together, don't

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Speaker 1: wait for the perfect day with lots of notice. Just

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Speaker 1: try it. For instance, if there is a big blizzard

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Speaker 1: and everyone around you is snowbound, make a pot of

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Speaker 1: chili and invite your neighbors over for supper. Or if

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Speaker 1: you have a great hill in your yard, invite your

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Speaker 1: neighbors over for sledding and hot chocolate. If there is

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Speaker 1: an unexpectedly beautiful early spring day, text a few friends

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Speaker 1: to see if they can come over for a cookout,

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Speaker 1: or suggest meeting up at a local park for a walk.

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Speaker 1: If you ordered a board game, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: schedule a game night three months in advance. When the

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Speaker 1: board game arrives, simply text or call a few friends

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Speaker 1: to see if they want to come over after kid

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Speaker 1: bedtimes and play the game. Maybe you thought you'd be

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Speaker 1: away for a work trip but it got canceled the

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Speaker 1: day you were supposed to leave. Those nights you thought

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Speaker 1: you'd be away, why not try rallying friends to meet

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Speaker 1: up for dinner or drinks. You don't have to assume

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Speaker 1: that a last minute invitation is hopeless and that no

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Speaker 1: one will be free. Sure, some people might be busy,

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Speaker 1: which is why it might be worth asking more than

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Speaker 1: one person, but when you suggest something fun and immediate,

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Speaker 1: people may turn out to be less busy than you think.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe somebody else said something canceled too. Are

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Speaker 1: they just came off a busy work week and didn't

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Speaker 1: have the energy to think through the weekend. But now

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Speaker 1: that you have suggested something, hey, that sounds a lot

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Speaker 1: better than nothing. And if you extend a last minute

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Speaker 1: invitation and no one can come no worries. The people

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Speaker 1: you reached out to are highly likely to suggest gathering

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Speaker 1: another time, so your invitation may lead to fun and

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Speaker 1: interaction after all. So if a gathering sounds like fun

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Speaker 1: for you, see if you can make it happen soon.

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Speaker 1: Today is good. Last minute can sometimes work, and if

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Speaker 1: it does, feel most likely be happy that it did.

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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. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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