Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to try going into the new year repeating
Speaker 1: the phrase best year yet. You just might find yourself
Speaker 1: leading a bigger and more fulfilling life. Over the past
Speaker 1: few days, we have talked about lots of different ways
Speaker 1: for setting goals and defining the new year. I think
Speaker 1: certain structures make goals more likely to happen than otherwise.
Speaker 1: But one small tweak that can take time from great
Speaker 1: to awesome is to go into the year with the
Speaker 1: mindset that this will be your best year yet. I mean,
Speaker 1: why not. Some year has to be your best year yet,
Speaker 1: and a year is a very long time. Maybe many
Speaker 1: of your previous years have had some good elements. I
Speaker 1: certainly hope that they have, But I am guessing that
Speaker 1: you weren't thinking about optimizing the full eight thousand, seven
Speaker 1: hundred sixty hours. Even if there aren't big, cool things
Speaker 1: happening this year. I am guessing that by focusing on
Speaker 1: elevating day to day life, you might make the sum
Speaker 1: total of happiness as large as it has ever been.
Speaker 1: So think about how you might remind yourself of this
Speaker 1: phrase and how you might incorporate it into your planning
Speaker 1: and your daily mindset. As you think about your long
Speaker 1: term planning, like blocking in vacations or summer plans, you
Speaker 1: might think best year yet and think about what that
Speaker 1: would mean during your best year yet. You might go
Speaker 1: out on a limb and suggest renting a place at
Speaker 1: the beach with those friends that you truly enjoy hanging
Speaker 1: out with during your best year yet. You might sign
Speaker 1: up for that pottery class that you have been eyeing
Speaker 1: for months. You could also build it into your weekly
Speaker 1: planning process, which is often where real time decisions get made.
Speaker 1: If you think best year Yet while planning your week,
Speaker 1: maybe you decide to reach out to your work friend
Speaker 1: to suggest getting coffee, or you suggest that you draft
Speaker 1: an agenda to make that Tuesday morning staff meeting a
Speaker 1: little less awful. You can also just repeat best year
Speaker 1: yet in any given moment to shift your mindset. Yes,
Speaker 1: you are stuck in traffic on a dreary commute, but
Speaker 1: this is your best year yet, darn it. So you'll
Speaker 1: think about happy memories, or listen to your favorite album
Speaker 1: from your teen years, or call someone you love many
Speaker 1: many moments are put through this rubric of it being
Speaker 1: the best year yet. Well, it's just possible it will
Speaker 1: be the best year yet. Now I know that no
Speaker 1: one can predict life. Sometimes life comes at us, Tragedy happens,
Speaker 1: things fall apart. You may not be able to convince
Speaker 1: yourself it is the best year yet in those cases,
Speaker 1: and I am not saying that you should try. But
Speaker 1: it is also possible that nothing truly terrible will happen.
Speaker 1: This would naturally be just kind of a ho humier
Speaker 1: as they often are. But in those cases, it is
Speaker 1: possible to take normal life from okay to a lot better,
Speaker 1: or even from great to awesome by setting the expectation
Speaker 1: that it will be. I am hoping that this will
Speaker 1: be my best year yet. How about you? In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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