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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 try going into the new year repeating

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Speaker 1: the phrase best year yet. You just might find yourself

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Speaker 1: leading a bigger and more fulfilling life. Over the past

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Speaker 1: few days, we have talked about lots of different ways

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Speaker 1: for setting goals and defining the new year. I think

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Speaker 1: certain structures make goals more likely to happen than otherwise.

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Speaker 1: But one small tweak that can take time from great

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Speaker 1: to awesome is to go into the year with the

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Speaker 1: mindset that this will be your best year yet. I mean,

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Speaker 1: why not. Some year has to be your best year yet,

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Speaker 1: and a year is a very long time. Maybe many

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Speaker 1: of your previous years have had some good elements. I

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Speaker 1: certainly hope that they have, But I am guessing that

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Speaker 1: you weren't thinking about optimizing the full eight thousand, seven

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Speaker 1: hundred sixty hours. Even if there aren't big, cool things

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Speaker 1: happening this year. I am guessing that by focusing on

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Speaker 1: elevating day to day life, you might make the sum

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Speaker 1: total of happiness as large as it has ever been.

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Speaker 1: So think about how you might remind yourself of this

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Speaker 1: phrase and how you might incorporate it into your planning

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Speaker 1: and your daily mindset. As you think about your long

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Speaker 1: term planning, like blocking in vacations or summer plans, you

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Speaker 1: might think best year yet and think about what that

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Speaker 1: would mean during your best year yet. You might go

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Speaker 1: out on a limb and suggest renting a place at

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Speaker 1: the beach with those friends that you truly enjoy hanging

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Speaker 1: out with during your best year yet. You might sign

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Speaker 1: up for that pottery class that you have been eyeing

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Speaker 1: for months. You could also build it into your weekly

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Speaker 1: planning process, which is often where real time decisions get made.

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Speaker 1: If you think best year Yet while planning your week,

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Speaker 1: maybe you decide to reach out to your work friend

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Speaker 1: to suggest getting coffee, or you suggest that you draft

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Speaker 1: an agenda to make that Tuesday morning staff meeting a

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Speaker 1: little less awful. You can also just repeat best year

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Speaker 1: yet in any given moment to shift your mindset. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you are stuck in traffic on a dreary commute, but

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Speaker 1: this is your best year yet, darn it. So you'll

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Speaker 1: think about happy memories, or listen to your favorite album

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Speaker 1: from your teen years, or call someone you love many

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Speaker 1: many moments are put through this rubric of it being

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Speaker 1: the best year yet. Well, it's just possible it will

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Speaker 1: be the best year yet. Now I know that no

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Speaker 1: one can predict life. Sometimes life comes at us, Tragedy happens,

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Speaker 1: things fall apart. You may not be able to convince

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Speaker 1: yourself it is the best year yet in those cases,

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Speaker 1: and I am not saying that you should try. But

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Speaker 1: it is also possible that nothing truly terrible will happen.

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Speaker 1: This would naturally be just kind of a ho humier

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Speaker 1: as they often are. But in those cases, it is

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Speaker 1: possible to take normal life from okay to a lot better,

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Speaker 1: or even from great to awesome by setting the expectation

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Speaker 1: that it will be. I am hoping that this will

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Speaker 1: be my best year yet. How about you? In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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