1 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: Hi. 2 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 2: I'm Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 2: and speaker. 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 3: And I'm Sarah hart Hunger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 3: and course creator. We are two working parents who love 6 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 3: our careers and our families. 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: Welcome to best of both worlds. Here we talk about 8 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: how real women manage work, family, and time for fun, 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 2: from figuring out childcare to mapping out long. 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: Term career goals. 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 2: We want you to get the most out of life. 12 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to best of both worlds. This is Laura. 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 2: This episode is airing at the very end of December 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. We are going to be looking forward 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: to twenty twenty six. Yes, this is our annual Goals episode. 16 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 4: Sarah. 17 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 2: We've been doing this for a while, haven't we. We 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: have been doing this for a while. 19 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 3: It's become somewhat of a tradition to record these episodes, 20 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 3: listen to them ourselves, and then comment on them a 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 3: year later. And in fact, I will just give my 22 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 3: traditional disclaimer that I've been given at least the past 23 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 3: couple of years, that I'm not entirely ready to commit 24 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 3: to my goals yet. 25 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a little bit of a timing issue in 26 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,839 Speaker 2: that these episodes air over the holiday break, which, regardless 27 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 2: of whether Sarah and I are working over the holiday break, 28 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: the people who produce this podcast do not wish to 29 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: work over the holiday break, and so we need to 30 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 2: get in all our content at a time, And so 31 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: it is early December when we are recording this, and 32 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 2: so a lot of people do not necessarily set their 33 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 2: goals or resolutions in early December. We may be a 34 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 2: bit more oriented toward future planning getting into this sort 35 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,839 Speaker 2: of thing than the average person. Even so I probably 36 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: would not be setting all my goals by early December. 37 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: I mean you might, Sarah. 38 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 3: No, I mean I'm not totally ready, and I just 39 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 3: consider this episode my goals as they exist right now, 40 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 3: and probably the final list will be similar. But as 41 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: an example, we did this episode a year ago and 42 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 3: I made no mention of in visil line, but I 43 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 3: did end up setting that as a twenty twenty five 44 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,119 Speaker 3: goal that I ended up following through on, by the way, which. 45 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: We didn't even talk about in the year and review episode. 46 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: By the way, but. 47 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 3: It's because I had gotten my notes from our prior 48 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 3: episode and not from like actual real life. 49 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 4: But that's an example of something. 50 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 3: There may be little tweaks, little additions, reframes, et cetera. 51 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 4: And we're allowed to do that. But here are our goals. 52 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 3: As they stand as of now in draft form. 53 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I ever have a don 54 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 2: for it. I mean, because you can always abandon a goal. 55 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 2: So then I mean, is it like. 56 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 3: Totally like it's a working document. But I do consider 57 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 3: the done when I write them an ink somewhere on 58 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 3: a twenty twenty six volume of something, then they're just 59 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 3: then they're done. 60 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 2: Okay, Well, all right, here we go. I mean, what 61 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: categories do you generally use? 62 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, I generally use personal, some kind of relationship or 63 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 3: family category, and sometimes there's like a home category. This 64 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 3: year I went with personal relationships, family, home, and work. 65 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 4: What about you? 66 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 2: So I do that in the opposite order. And this 67 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 2: is just because that's how I always say it. Like 68 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,239 Speaker 2: when I'm speaking, when I'm have my set order of things, 69 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 2: I tell people to make your list of one hundred 70 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 2: dreams in the category of career relationships self, right, So, 71 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 2: and then when I talk in my you know about 72 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 2: making your priority list for the upcoming week. The order 73 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 2: I say it in is career relationship self, and so 74 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 2: hence when I am making goal lists, it is career 75 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: relationships self. And because I did the notes for our 76 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: year and review episode, we did it in the order 77 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: of career relationships self. But because Sarah did the notes 78 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: for this episode, we are going in a different order, right. 79 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 4: Sarah, Yes to me. 80 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 3: I rationalize it as, or envision it a sort of 81 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 3: widening circles, like your own self, and then the people 82 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 3: write around you, and then like the greater, larger world 83 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 3: and maybe your environment. Obviously, there's no one right way 84 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 3: to order your goals, and no one right way to 85 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 3: define your categories, so you can do categories that are 86 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: more specific than ours. Sometimes I've heard really whimsicals sound 87 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 3: in categories, and your choice of how to divide up 88 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 3: your goals is yours. 89 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 4: But I do feel like having some. 90 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 3: Sort of categorization sometimes makes it easier to generate than 91 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 3: having one big, long, lumpy list. 92 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, and certainly some people, yeah, have an I don't 93 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: know where I would put something like household goals. I mean, 94 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,919 Speaker 2: I guess I might put it in relationships category unless 95 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 2: it was something for me personally financial goals. I tend 96 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: not to set those. But that might be either in career, 97 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: like if it was for my earning goals, or I 98 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 2: guess if it were household maybe that would be part 99 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: of relationship. 100 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. 101 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 3: For me, that would be in family and home. 102 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: Family and home, okay, yeah, but those are categories that 103 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 2: other people might certainly use. I mean I tend to 104 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 2: think of career, relationships and self as reasonably comprehensive because 105 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 2: you can kind of put everything in there, Like if 106 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: you have community goals, like that's sort of part of relationships, 107 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 2: or if it's maybe more of a hobby goal but 108 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 2: that's part of a community, that could be the personal self, you. 109 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 3: Know, yeah, or health goals and personal. 110 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: Health goals not personal. Yeah. 111 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: I would say self is like your own personal mental, spiritual, physical, 112 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 2: emotional health as anything in that category. 113 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 1: But lots of different stuff. 114 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 2: So okay, we're going to start with personal then, because 115 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 2: Sarah made the notes. 116 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 3: Right, I did, all right, So for my personal goals, 117 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 3: the first one is going to be embrace hobbies. And 118 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 3: for examples of this, I want to learn all of 119 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 3: the Taylor Swift Life of a Showgirl songs confidently on 120 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 3: the piano. I want to try cross stitch by doing 121 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 3: at least one project. I want to play with fountain 122 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 3: pens and I might even dabble in some baking or something. 123 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 3: Just go all in on hobbies. So that's my number one, 124 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 3: and that's them part because I recognized that the loss 125 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 3: of running in my life has been a little bit 126 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 3: more of a loss of a hobby and social connection 127 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 3: than it has been a fitness which has been a 128 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 3: bit surprising to me. But yeah, I'm looking to find 129 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 3: some great hobbies to fill Tho, those. 130 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 2: Are all the hobbies. So how does that work with 131 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 2: that is still in the social hole. 132 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 3: It doesn't fill the social hole, it fills the something 133 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: to like. It wasn't just social. It was like, let 134 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 3: me look up all the shoes and listen to the 135 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 3: running podcasts and I don't know, like read running blogs 136 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 3: and things like that. 137 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 4: So those all transition to the crafting world. 138 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 2: It can be. 139 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 3: Actually, my sister has demonstrated it can be kind of social. 140 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 3: Although I don't really have plans to join like a 141 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 3: cross stitch circle or anything like that. But let's just 142 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 3: start with phase one. 143 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 2: Phase one to do one cross stitch project, enjoy, then 144 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 2: join the cross stitching story. 145 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 3: They could actually see some day doing like School of 146 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 3: Rock with piano, so that could morph into a more 147 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 3: social goal. But I think step one for next year 148 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 3: is going to be like figuring out which one of 149 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 3: these I want to take a little bit deeper. 150 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: All right, Then you have fitness goals too. 151 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 3: I have to have a fitness goal, like I just 152 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 3: feel complete with a fitness goal. Obviously I can't have 153 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 3: a running one, but I would like to try to 154 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 3: get to level two at Club Pilate's, which should doable. 155 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 3: I think usually around one hundred classes is when you 156 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 3: can test into level two at my studio, and I'm 157 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 3: on track that by the end of the year I 158 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 3: should be past the one hundred class mark. There is 159 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 3: a level one point five as well, which is like 160 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 3: really level two. So the level two is kind of 161 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 3: more like level three, and I'm currently at that quote 162 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 3: level one point five, but interested in growing my pilate's practice. 163 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 3: Your karate belts, yeah, oh, they should have like some 164 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 3: kind of marker that would be cool, like you walked 165 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 3: in there with your purple headband or purple headband. 166 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: I'm a purple headband, Okay. 167 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 3: I would like to always have presentable nails now, This 168 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 3: does not mean I always need a professional manicure, because 169 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 3: that's not realistic. But I have sometimes done manicures and 170 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 3: then just left the nail polish on to an embarrassing 171 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 3: degree and it's just not cool. So just always want 172 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 3: to have my nails look reasonably presentable. My invisil line 173 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 3: cured me of biting my nails, like I have not 174 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 3: bit my nails since March or whenever I had put on, 175 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 3: So that's great, But one step further would be just 176 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 3: getting them a little bit nicer. I'm going to continue 177 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 3: my wardrobe goal from last year, which I made some 178 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 3: progress on, but I want to work on my accessories 179 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 3: and jewelry. I want some date night outfits. I still 180 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 3: want a speaking outfit, and I have a specific goal 181 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 3: to get a couple of dresses I have altered that 182 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 3: don't like quite work, and to get two more colors 183 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 3: of scrubs. 184 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: Excellent. 185 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 2: Well, while you're in Philadelphia, here, there's a Fig store here, 186 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 2: so you could come visit it in downtown. 187 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 3: True, I know that from the Frugal Girl, So maybe 188 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 3: I'll make a little outing. 189 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: That'll be fun, the pilgrimage to the Fig store. That 190 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: could be fun. 191 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 2: All right, So my personal goals self goals for twenty 192 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 2: twenty six, I want to do regular library visits. Currently, 193 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 2: this fits in my life in that I can stop 194 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 2: by the big library in our community sort of on 195 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 2: the way to get Henry from choir. 196 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: Practice on Wednesdays. 197 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 2: That's worked out well as a time to happen in 198 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 2: my schedule. I feel like I've gone through a lot 199 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 2: of the books that I might want to get at 200 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 2: our local branch that is a three minute drive for 201 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 2: my house, so I do need to go to the 202 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: bigger library in order to have this be an appealing 203 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,599 Speaker 2: thing to do. But there's a ton of stuff I 204 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 2: haven't found there. It's about browsing and seeing, oh that 205 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 2: looks interesting, and you know, I'll just grab six books 206 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: and bring them back three weeks later, and some of 207 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 2: them I will have read and some of them I won't. 208 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 2: But it also is helpful for having coffee table type 209 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: books like I love looking at garden books or you know, 210 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 2: home decor books and things like that, and it would 211 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 2: be pointless to buy them because it would be clutter 212 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 2: and they're like fifty bucks apiece. But the library is 213 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 2: great for that so that I can page through it, 214 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 2: enjoy it, move on. I want to wear my jewelry, 215 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 2: so regardless of whether I want new joy or not, 216 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 2: I don't wear the stuff I have. And this currently is, 217 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 2: you know, working from home, like I don't necessarily get 218 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 2: all done up for anything. But when I do go 219 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,319 Speaker 2: out in the world, I can put on my earrings. 220 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: I can put on. An part of that is I 221 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: also will need to get my ring resized. I think 222 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: I need to just accept. 223 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 2: That I have not worn my wedding ring in about 224 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 2: a year. And I don't know if it's that I 225 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 2: way more than when I got married at age twenty five, 226 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 2: or my knuckle got bigger. I don't really know, but 227 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: it doesn't comfortably fit, and so I would like to 228 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 2: wear it again. I am still happily married. Not that 229 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 2: your ring means anything for that, but you know, I 230 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: need to go get that taken care of. And it 231 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 2: just acknowledged that my knuckle is unlikely to go down 232 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 2: in size, even if five loose weight. 233 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 3: I think it's really common. Actually they get like joint 234 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,839 Speaker 3: swelling over time. Yeah, without any other real change in 235 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 3: body sign Yah. 236 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 2: So exactly in terms of my listening project, I am 237 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 2: ninety percent sure I'm going to do Mozart. However, I 238 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 2: have not constructed this calendar yet because I was hoping, 239 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 2: I had this vague hope that somebody else would have 240 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 2: made a motz Art calendar that I could borrow, much 241 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: as I had done the Beethoven calendar. This past year, 242 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 2: I constructed my own Bock calendar and it was fine. 243 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: It was just a lot of work. 244 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 2: So if it were a way to avoid that work 245 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 2: with Mozart, that would be exciting. 246 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: But I have not yet found anything. 247 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 3: This is a great AI use case, and I hate AI, 248 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 3: but well, I don't hate A. I have complex relationship 249 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 3: with AI. But this would be like one of those 250 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 3: where the first draft could possibly come from One of those. 251 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 2: Could come from Yeah, I mean, because it's a multi 252 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 2: part thing. It's both getting the complete catalog and putting 253 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 2: it in chunks of like thirty to forty minutes of 254 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 2: listening a day, which I think will cover it from 255 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 2: what I can sort of, because you have to figure 256 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 2: that out first, like how much music is there, and 257 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 2: then finding recordings of it, and then finding the best 258 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 2: recordings of it because nobody really wants to listen to 259 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: the middle school orchestra, the middle school orchestra doing the bait, 260 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 2: you know, the Mozart to whatever. I declined and they 261 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 2: wouldn't do that. But anyway, you want to choose good stuff. 262 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 3: So oh, we totally did that in my high school orchestra. 263 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 4: So there you go. 264 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 2: So I don't want that recording. I want a different recording. 265 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a lot of work. So I guess 266 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 2: maybe I will have AI try to do the first. 267 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 2: But if somebody's listening to this and like, hey, I 268 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 2: found a Mozart project that you can borrow, let me know, 269 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 2: I would love it. In terms of reading, I had 270 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 2: thought about rereading Shakespeare's plays in their entirety, but then 271 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 2: I just had I don't want to read all of them, 272 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 2: Like I don't want to read whatever John the second 273 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 2: or like Henry the fourth part one, I don't want 274 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 2: to read those again. 275 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 4: Didn't you do this like a few years ago? 276 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: Yes, but I feel like I didn't get all of it. 277 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 2: So what I'm going to do is a Shakespeare's Greatest 278 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 2: Hits project where I'm going to reread about twelve plays, 279 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 2: so one a month, with commentary, and so then I 280 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 2: can go through even slower and make sure I'm getting 281 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 2: like all the word play and stuff, and having already 282 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 2: read all of them. It's at least a second reading, 283 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 2: and for these the greatest hits, it's more like a 284 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 2: third or fourth reading, so I know what. 285 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:06,319 Speaker 1: Happened in the plot. 286 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 2: Now it's more about figuring out everything else that you 287 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 2: wouldn't necessarily see on earlier readings, and going through in 288 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 2: reading Shakespeare scholars on them as well. 289 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 4: Super cool. 290 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 3: It's like getting a layer deeper. 291 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 2: I like that, Yeah, and then I have, yeah, just 292 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 2: two more. I'm going to do strengthen flexibility three times 293 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 2: a week. I'm going to up this to three, but 294 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 2: five ten minutes is fine. This is about frequency, not duration, 295 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 2: and I think I'm pretty much there already, so this 296 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 2: is just about holding myself accountable to it. I'm going 297 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 2: to eat produce for breakfast. That's a reup from last year. 298 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 2: But what I'm going to add to that is roasting 299 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 2: veggies once a week when not traveling, so that's going 300 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 2: to be about like forty times this year. I will 301 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: do a giant sheet pan of vegetables, so broccoli, cauliflower, 302 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 2: put them inn olive oil and salt, roast them for 303 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 2: twenty minutes. They're far more palatable that way. But that'll 304 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 2: just be a way to sort of increase produce consumption 305 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 2: in my life. 306 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 4: Do you have a certain day of the week you 307 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 4: think you'll do that. 308 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 2: I often wind up doing it on Sundays because then 309 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 2: we can eat it with Sunday dinner and then all 310 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 2: week and all week or at least to Monday and Tuesday, 311 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 2: and I usually get through the button. Yeah, all right, 312 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:16,319 Speaker 2: Well we're going to take a quick ad break and 313 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 2: then we'll be back with the other categories of our goals. 314 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: So we are back. This is our annual goal episode. 315 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: These are our goals for twenty six with the disclaimer 316 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 2: that we were recording this in early December, meaning that 317 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 2: things could change in the next month. So this is 318 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: not carved in stone, more written in pencil, but this 319 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 2: is at least what we intend to do over the 320 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 2: course of the year. So, Sarah, your next category, relationships. 321 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 2: What do you have here? 322 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is a repeat because I found like, 323 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 3: I feel like I only got my footing on it 324 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 3: at the very end of twenty two, which is to 325 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 3: continue planning in two date nights per month and plan 326 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 3: the main when I do my monthly planning at the 327 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 3: beginning of the month. 328 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 4: The second one is kind of funny. 329 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 3: I would like to help my husband manage his work 330 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 3: schedule better by inserting myself directly into the loop with 331 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 3: his office manager and requesting time off. He has said 332 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 3: it's fine for me to do this. I wouldn't have 333 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 3: inserted myself without consulting him first, but we've just run 334 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 3: into issues too many times where he's like, wow, I 335 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 3: should have requested that day off and I'm like, well, yeah, 336 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 3: but you needed to do that a few months ago, 337 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 3: and it didn't happen. So instead of nagging him to 338 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 3: do it, I work at the same house system, so 339 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 3: I can just email the manager myself and see see 340 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 3: my husband and make sure that if there are days 341 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 3: our family wants to have off all together, to make 342 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 3: sure that is reserved in advance. Number three, I want 343 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 3: to wholeheartedly celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary, and we definitely 344 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 3: have this on the pipeline already. We have a weekend 345 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 3: away booked that I think it's going to be really 346 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 3: special and fun. And then we're also going to Hawaii 347 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 3: with the family, which is where we went on our honeymoon, 348 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 3: So go big or go home. 349 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 4: We're going to do it. 350 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 3: And I would like to complete the thirty six Questions activity, 351 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 3: which is thirty six questions to fall in love that 352 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 3: I learned about from Elizabeth who blogs it optimist amusings 353 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 3: It's New York Times activity, and I think it'd be 354 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 3: really fun to do on a little weekend get away. 355 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 3: I would like to see my parents and sister at 356 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 3: least three times, and to be honest, I've already planned 357 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 3: in I think four times that I will see them, 358 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 3: so that's hopefully. 359 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 4: Going to work out well. 360 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 3: I would like to call my family members more, especially 361 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 3: my parents. I talk to them sometimes. I feel like 362 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 3: they get a lot of life updates via my blog, 363 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 3: but I don't love that because then I'm not hearing 364 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 3: what they have going on, and I just would rather 365 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 3: have more back and forth. So I'm going to try 366 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 3: to do that more in my commute home or while 367 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 3: on walks, et cetera. All right, that's relationships, what about you? 368 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, So this one is a re up from the 369 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 2: year is to go to three pro sports events, plus 370 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 2: I want to add one concert, which we did last 371 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,239 Speaker 2: year too. I mean we went to George Strait and 372 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 2: that was a lot of fun as a date night. 373 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 2: But to be on the lookout for concerts we might 374 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: go to. But it's just, you know, in general, makes 375 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 2: date nights more interesting. It's fine to go out to dinner, 376 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 2: but if you have tickets to a sporting event, you're 377 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 2: probably gonna wind up doing it because you have to 378 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 2: do that ahead of time. And a concert as well. 379 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff that comes through Philadelphia. We've 380 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 2: got Lincoln Financial Field here where the Eagles play, and 381 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 2: so most of the major stadium tours do come through here, 382 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 2: so there'll be stuff to choose from, so planning on 383 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 2: doing that. We are doing some family travel over Christmas 384 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:44,640 Speaker 2: and New Year, so that will be on the trip 385 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 2: when this airs. As with all my family trips, I 386 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 2: want to have several enjoyable moments, and I think we will. 387 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: But this is not necessarily a low stress trip. And 388 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: I'm sorry to be vague podcasting hair, but. 389 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 4: You will definitely hear about it later. 390 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 2: You will definitely hear about it later. But you know, 391 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 2: I want to go into it with a mindset of 392 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 2: adventure and enjoying ourselves and patients. For anything that does 393 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 2: not go entirely as planned. I am also having a 394 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 2: spring break trip with Sam, my sixteen year old that 395 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 2: I think will be a ton of fun just the 396 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 2: two of us, so I'm going to really enjoy that, 397 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 2: and then coming out of this, I also want to decide, 398 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 2: depending on how our Christmas trip goes, if we can 399 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 2: aim for a sort of really big family trip in 400 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 2: the summer of twenty twenty seven. 401 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: That would need to start being planned probably in January 402 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: February of twenty twenty six, if we're going to do it. 403 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: So that's the travel one. 404 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 2: I'm going to my twenty fifth re union college that's 405 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 2: going to happen most likely. I haven't signed up for 406 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 2: it yet, but I live close enough so I will 407 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 2: most likely be going for at least a night or two. 408 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,479 Speaker 1: But I think it's actually going to be kind of 409 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: fun because I'm in a pretty good lifeespace. 410 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 2: Compared to where things could be twenty five years out 411 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 2: of college. 412 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: I think it's not bad, so that's always helpful. 413 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 3: And twenty five is a big one, like I feel 414 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 3: like a lot of people will attend that didn't necessarily 415 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 3: go to all the in between all the other ones. 416 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to continue doing one on one time 417 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 2: with my kids when I can and notice it. So 418 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 2: obviously I've got the spring break trip, but looking for 419 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 2: other opportunities. I do a lot of shopping with one 420 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: child and some other activities. People like to do different things, 421 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 2: so it'll be fun. And then this is just a phrase, 422 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 2: facilitate gathering. So think about when people are in the 423 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 2: house in various combinations and how I can encourage that 424 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 2: more and spending time together, and whether that's setting up 425 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 2: places that people are going to be together, or making 426 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 2: family dinners a bit longer somehow, or for instance, my 427 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 2: kids have to be in their rooms at a certain point, 428 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 2: but I have not policed if the ones who don't 429 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 2: have to go to bed have been in each other's 430 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 2: rooms sometimes talking to each other, and I think that's 431 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 2: kind of nice that they do that. So but think 432 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 2: about how we can facilitate gathering in this house. 433 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 3: Awesome, all right, I think we have time for one 434 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 3: more before our next break, so let's get to work goals. 435 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, what's your goal here, Sarah? 436 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 3: I would say this is a category I'm not like 437 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 3: entirely firm on yet, but I do want to launch 438 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 3: bestly plans Academy two point zero, which is going to 439 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 3: be similar but a improved version from the version I 440 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 3: taught several times before. 441 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 4: Now that I just feel like I have more experience 442 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 4: and I have not. 443 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 3: It's like my book came from that, and now I 444 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 3: can make a better version of that based on the book, 445 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 3: if that makes sense. 446 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 4: But anyway, so that's a project. 447 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 3: I do want to re up my goal about pitching podcasts, 448 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 3: to just get my name out there, my book out there, 449 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 3: et cetera. I think there's been a barrier, and then 450 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 3: I obviously don't like no one likes rejections, right, But 451 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 3: the truth is if you pitch thirdy or so really 452 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 3: big podcasts, even if you get one, yes, it can 453 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 3: be somewhat impactful. So I just need to just do it. 454 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 3: Another goal that is a little bit of an outcome goal, 455 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 3: and I don't know how total control, but I'm going 456 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 3: to try is I want to trade some of my 457 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 3: call weekends because it's just so much nicer for me 458 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,719 Speaker 3: to take either the Friday, Saturday, Sunday or the Monday 459 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 3: through Thursday part of call and not do it all 460 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 3: at once. But not all of my coworkers agree with that, 461 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 3: so often it's waiting until someone needs coverage and then 462 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 3: snapping up, hey i'll trade, let's trade the weekend. 463 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 4: So I'm going to try to really try hard to 464 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 4: do that. 465 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 3: With as many of my colleagues as I can, so 466 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 3: again taking the same amount of call but breaking it up. 467 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 3: I want to figure out my next big writing project, 468 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 3: like will there be another book, or maybe more likely, 469 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 3: how to share some of the content I've created for 470 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 3: Planning by Season in a. 471 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 4: Physical way we'll see. 472 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 3: I want to go to Pediatric Endocrine Society this year. 473 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 3: That's been a goal for the last few years, and 474 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 3: I didn't go the last couples, so this it's really 475 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 3: really time, and I think I am craving that focus 476 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 3: on the clinical side of things, and also just getting 477 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,360 Speaker 3: to see farflowng colleagues. 478 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 4: At that meeting. 479 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 3: And then finally, I would like to separate my business 480 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 3: finances from our families' finances because right now it's kind 481 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 3: of all in. You need a budget and I know, 482 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 3: and some spreadsheets, but it's just like a bit of 483 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 3: a mess. And I also feel like, since I'm interested 484 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 3: in card hacking and stuff, this would be a great 485 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 3: opportunity to maybe open a couple of business cards, get 486 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 3: the bonuses, but also keep things a little bit more clear. 487 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 3: It's legal to keep things together as long as you 488 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 3: report everything the way it's structured. I mean to have 489 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,959 Speaker 3: an accountant. I report every single earning. I do ten 490 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 3: ninety nine's, I do all that stuff. But it's just 491 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 3: like the information is not stored in an entirely clean, 492 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 3: separate system. So I'd like to work on that. 493 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds good. 494 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 2: All right, We're going to take one more quick ad 495 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 2: break and then I'll share my professional goals. We are 496 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,439 Speaker 2: back talking our twenty twenty six goals. Sarah just shared 497 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 2: her professional goals both through her clinical work and her 498 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 2: creative work. So my professional goals this year. One is 499 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 2: launching big time, which is most likely going to happen 500 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 2: as so the train has left the station at this point. 501 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 2: But I want to be happy with what I have 502 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 2: done to promote it and get it out in the world. 503 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 2: And I'm trying to shape this as a process versus 504 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 2: an outcome goal because there's so much you can't control, 505 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 2: and so I don't know. Maybe I should set outcome 506 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 2: goals with it, like copies sold. That would be something 507 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 2: I possibly might do in terms of how many I 508 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 2: could move before it came out, for instance, like what 509 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: pre order numbers do I think I could reasonably shoot for. 510 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 2: But for now, I'm just going to say that I 511 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 2: want to be happy that I have crossed my teas, 512 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,360 Speaker 2: dotted my eyes, all that good stuff. I also need 513 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 2: to do this, but it is a goal is to 514 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 2: write Golden Hours, which, as part of my two book contract, 515 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 2: is due on October first, so I want to write 516 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 2: it and be proud of it because that will be 517 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 2: out in the world then the next year, so I'll 518 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 2: be setting that was a twenty twenty seven goal. Launching 519 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 2: that one. I want to write fifty two sonnets, so 520 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 2: I am reupping this is that we're starting to get 521 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 2: a several reupped goals, as we've figured ones we enjoy 522 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 2: and want to stick with. But this is writing fifty 523 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 2: two sonnets over the course of a year, so two 524 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 2: lines a. 525 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: Day, one sonnet a week. 526 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 2: But then to kind of tweak this one a bit, 527 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 2: I want to curate some sort of best of list, 528 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 2: because by the end of twenty twenty six, if I 529 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 2: continue with this, I should have theoretically something like two 530 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 2: hundred and eight or two hundred and nine two hundred 531 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 2: ten sonnets. So could I choose who is like twenty 532 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 2: five of those that I really like and then do 533 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 2: something with them? 534 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: Maybe? 535 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 3: So I think you should send them to some like 536 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 3: esoteric literary magazine. 537 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we shall see. 538 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, maybe they'll be excited because they could like 539 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 2: direct my other readers to their esoteric literary magazine, and 540 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 2: that would be exciting for all involved. Could happen, We'll see, 541 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 2: We'll see. And then I want to revise or library 542 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 2: on the novella I mentioned writing through Ney no Raimu 543 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 2: in November this past year, and I want to give 544 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 2: an intriguing speech, So something a little out of the ordinary, 545 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 2: whether that is in terms of location, the concept, or 546 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 2: the group or whatever else. Probably it's gonna be the 547 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 2: location that will be interesting to me, but I'm open 548 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 2: to other interpretations of that. But every year I wound 549 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,239 Speaker 2: up giving at least nine ten speeches, so hopefully at 550 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 2: least one of them will be something that makes me go, oh, yeah, 551 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 2: that was really memorable in terms of it being different 552 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 2: for this reason. 553 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: So we'll figure out what that is. 554 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,479 Speaker 3: Yay, Well, that's exciting, and maybe someone listening to this 555 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 3: will who knows be connected somewhere that will have a 556 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 3: great idea for that. All right, our last category here, 557 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 3: I don't know if you have any No you don't, well, 558 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 3: it's me alone. 559 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 4: Is family and home Actually second to last. 560 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 3: Sorry. We discussed on the last episode that decluttering is 561 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,479 Speaker 3: a project. They may not have an end, which might 562 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 3: be part of the problem, because as I'm reflecting back, 563 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, actually a lot has been decluttered 564 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 3: in my house over the years. It's just that I 565 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 3: never get to a point where I can say everything's decluttered. 566 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,479 Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna like table this for now. So 567 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 3: when I listen to this a year from now, I'll 568 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 3: have to have the redefined version of this goal and 569 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 3: talk about how I met that. However, I will say 570 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 3: one sub goal I have with the decluttering is to 571 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 3: hire a consultant of some kind, whether it's someone who 572 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 3: comes in my house or someone that works with me 573 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 3: one on one, because I need that accountability piece. So 574 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 3: even if that's the main deft part of the goal 575 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 3: right now, I'm going to get another party involved. 576 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 2: I really do think, as we talked about in the 577 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 2: last episode, I mean, as you're thinking about structuring this 578 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 2: like actually listing twelve spots and then assigning one a month, 579 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 2: and I feel like that could happen, and then you'd 580 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 2: know if you've done it. 581 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 3: Yes, But then let's say you get back to January 582 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 3: and then, like the one you did last January is 583 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 3: like disaster again. 584 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 2: Didn't you have to do it again? Because like again, 585 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 2: it doesn't stay done. It doesn't stay done forever. 586 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 4: That's the problem with this goal. 587 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 3: I know it needs help because my vision for what 588 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,719 Speaker 3: the end looks like is probably not actually maybe not achievable. 589 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 3: But I'm not ready to come to terms with that yet. 590 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 3: I need to work. 591 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 4: Okay, So category. 592 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 3: I created one about fun just because I didn't feel 593 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 3: like I had too much fun embedded in my other goals. 594 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 3: I guess the travel is fun, but I want to 595 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 3: aim for one long form performance every month, so it 596 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 3: can be a movie on streaming TV. It does not 597 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 3: have to be anything elaborate, but maybe some months it'll 598 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,439 Speaker 3: be a play or concert or something like that. I 599 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,919 Speaker 3: have a lifelong well, I've decided I'd like to make 600 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 3: it a lifelong goal to see the leaves in the 601 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 3: fall once every year until I die. 602 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 4: So yeah, and then I've. 603 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 3: Mentioned sidewise that I want to work on my points 604 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 3: and miles games, So I do want to work on 605 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 3: that because I want to have a banger travel year 606 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty seven. 607 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 2: So leave it at that, all right, need some points 608 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 2: in miles to make that happen. Yeah, I don't really 609 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 2: have anything in this. I just hope in general, to 610 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 2: enjoy myself. I hope to enjoy myself in twenty twenty six, 611 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 2: So I guess I could remind myself to enjoy myself 612 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 2: as I'm going through everything that is happening professionally and personally, 613 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 2: because many things can be stressful, but don't want to 614 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 2: only enjoy them in retrospect. 615 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 1: Do you choose a word of the year, Sarah? Are 616 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: you going to do that this year? 617 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 3: I haven't chosen my year. Well, funny that we're using 618 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 3: the word choose. So I have been toying with something 619 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 3: about choices or the word choose or something like that. 620 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 3: But I don't actually like the feel of the word 621 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 3: choice in my mouth, like it's too close to moist 622 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 3: or something like I. 623 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 4: Can't I don't like it. 624 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 3: So I'm toying with select because to select is to 625 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,959 Speaker 3: choose but also select implies maybe a more elevated approach 626 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 3: to things, a more deliberate approach, and that you're choosing 627 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 3: things maybe higher up on the selection ladder. 628 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 4: I don't know. 629 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 3: This is also a work in progress, but maybe something 630 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 3: along those lines, partially inspired by. 631 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 2: Your quote and Juliet School of Possibilities. By the way, Yes, 632 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 2: expectations are infinite. Time is finite. You are always choosing 633 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 2: choose well, but yeah, if you don't like the word choice, 634 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 2: sidn't we being about moist hopefully brownies and not like moist, 635 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 2: like shower or some floor. 636 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, many many things can get with that. 637 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: We have to like the word you choose, So I 638 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: don't really, I don't. 639 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 2: I'm not going to choose one, and I'm not doing 640 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 2: any twenty six for twenty six lists or are you 641 00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 2: doing that? Nah? 642 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 3: I'm I mean the decluttering thing twenty six categories of 643 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 3: decluttering thing I am toying with, Okay, And maybe that 644 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 3: would gamify things a little bit. 645 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: Ooh, I like it. 646 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 3: And if I make some of these categories kind of small, 647 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 3: it might deintimidate the project a little bit. 648 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, like each one you could have three different drawers 649 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 2: and like the same thing be one of the twenty six. 650 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 2: I mean, I think you could totally make that work 651 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 2: and each one would seem so doable that. 652 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: Like socks socks socks is a kidd Yeah, I love it. 653 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: I think that's a good use of that. 654 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 2: All right, So those are our goals for twenty twenty six. 655 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 2: We will be listening to this episode both in like 656 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 2: June when we're recording our midyear check in and November 657 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 2: when we are listening to it. 658 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: So hello future Laura and Sarah. 659 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 2: Yes, I hope everything has gone well. You've been enjoying 660 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 2: yourself and selecting well, only fun surprises in twenty twenty six, 661 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 2: only fun surprises, please please please? Okay, So question this 662 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 2: week's question, Sarah, what are your feelings on streaks? I 663 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 2: have mixed feelings on streaks. For myself, I would say 664 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 2: I'm generally not pro streak for whatever reason. I just 665 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 2: be like, I'll throw the baby out with the bathwater 666 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 2: and be like, oh, well, I mess the streak up, 667 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 2: so now I won't do it. Versus, if I give 668 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 2: myself the goal to mostly do something and I do 669 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 2: it ninety percent of the time, I can just feel like, oh, 670 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 2: I'm really achieving my aim and I win versus if 671 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 2: it was a streak that I failed. 672 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 4: However, I do think in this. 673 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 3: Short term streaks can be kind of tantalizing and motivating. 674 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 2: What about you, Yeah, you have a streak with a 675 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 2: regular streak freeze option that was kind of if you 676 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 2: do something ninety five percent of the time. I could 677 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 2: see how that could be a good mental model lingos 678 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 2: streak freeze concept. 679 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 4: Oh, I use plenty of those. 680 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, So I. 681 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 2: Am totally fascinated by the idea of streaks. I love 682 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 2: to write about it different people doing various streaks. I 683 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 2: did a running streak myself well, eleven hundred days of 684 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 2: running at least a mile every day. My father has 685 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 2: read his thirty minutes of Hebrew pretty much every day 686 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 2: for decades. What I'm also finding myself fascinated though, by, 687 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 2: is the number of streaks that people have that are 688 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 2: not intentional at all. And I'm guessing most people listening 689 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 2: to this have at least a few of these. 690 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: I mean, just so you think about, like. 691 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 2: You've brushed your teeth probably every day at least once. 692 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 3: And I've definitely worn my envisil line every day. 693 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 2: For decades, you may have been brushing your teeth at 694 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 2: least once a day, and that's not something you think 695 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 2: about as like evidence of your ironclad discipline. But it 696 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 2: is true that you've done it. So why have you 697 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 2: done it? Why have you done it every single day? 698 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 2: I mean it's not automatic. You don't like roll out 699 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 2: of bed and your teeth magically get brushed. You have 700 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 2: chosen to do it on some level. It's just that 701 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 2: it's so easy. It doesn't take much time. It's built 702 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 2: into your life, like you plan for aberrations, right, you 703 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 2: travel with your toothbrush. It's pleasant, like the result, so 704 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 2: you have a nice, minty, fresh breath. I think it's 705 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 2: more negative reinforcements if you don't do it. 706 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 4: I don't know that it's pleasant for me. 707 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 2: But either way, I mean, it's a fine line one 708 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 2: way or the other. Either you're happy that you've done it, 709 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 2: or you're very unhappy if you have it. Yes, So 710 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 2: what else have people done? I mean, you know, those 711 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 2: of us who drink coffee, I've probably had coffee every 712 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 2: single day. 713 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 3: My streak broke in the hospital, and let me tell 714 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 3: you how much I was begging those ice You doctors 715 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 3: to give me some coffee and you wouldn't and yeah, yeah, yeah, I. 716 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 4: Didn't want to break that one. 717 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 3: And that's another example of it has both positive reinforcement 718 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 3: and very powerful negative reinforcement. 719 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: But think about this. 720 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 2: If you are a coffee drinker, you have a streak 721 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 2: of drinking coffee, probably pretty much every day, again, maybe 722 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 2: for decades. And it's not that you set out to 723 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 2: have a streak. I mean, you can call it an 724 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 2: addiction if you want. There's a fine line between streaks 725 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 2: and addiction. But somehow you've managed to do that. So 726 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 2: the question is if you have a different streak that 727 00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 2: you would like to do, like if you would write 728 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 2: to read a short passage in something I don't know, 729 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 2: a spiritual text, or if you want to write in 730 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 2: a journal every day, Like, how could you make the 731 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 2: incentives the same as that long term streak that you've 732 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 2: done sort of without really thinking about it. 733 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 3: Super interesting as I am pondering this, I do think 734 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 3: having a powerful negative motivator of not doing this streak 735 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 3: is probably the stronger push for most people. It's my 736 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 3: hot take. 737 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 2: Hot take, all right, well, something to think about for 738 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 2: all of us. So, Sarah, what is your love of 739 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 2: the week this week. 740 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 4: My kids sleeping in. 741 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 3: Ten years ago, if I could have envisioned getting to 742 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 3: start a lot of my weekend mornings in a nice, peaceful, 743 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 3: serene house with everyone asleep until maybe nine, I couldn't 744 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,359 Speaker 3: have believed it. But we are here, and it's great. 745 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, it happens. It does get there eventually. I love 746 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 2: that too. I love days when I don't have to 747 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 2: set an alarm, and there's so few of these, like 748 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 2: even on weekends because somebody's gonna have some sort of 749 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 2: athletic event or a contest or whatever. Like often there's something, 750 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 2: there's a reason I'm set in alarm, but there's occasional 751 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 2: days when I don't, and it's kind of fun to 752 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 2: have those. We were recording this shortly after the long 753 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving weekend, and there were at least a few days 754 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 2: on that weekend where nobody had to be anywhere because 755 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 2: of the holiday, and so yeah, it was It's kind 756 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 2: of nice just see how the day starts, and especially 757 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 2: as the kids are sleeping in. Who knows how late 758 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 2: I could be sleeping in, Probably not as late as 759 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:29,319 Speaker 2: I think. Well, the older Dune kills and thirty it 760 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,719 Speaker 2: was longer, Yeah, exactly. All right, Well, this has been 761 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 2: best of both worlds. We've been discussing our twenty twenty 762 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 2: six goals. We will be back next week with more 763 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 2: on making work and life fit together. 764 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 4: Thanks for listening. 765 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,200 Speaker 3: You can find me Sarah at the shoebox dot com 766 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,320 Speaker 3: or at the Underscore Shoebox on Instagram, and you can. 767 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,399 Speaker 2: Find me Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. This has 768 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 2: been the best of both worlds podcasts. Please join us 769 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 2: next time for more on making work and life work together.