Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to resolve to have more fun. We
Speaker 1: often set tough goals for the new year, and that's fine,
Speaker 1: but so many of them are focused on not doing something.
Speaker 1: Aiming to do more of something and something that's really
Speaker 1: enjoyable can make pursuing a goal feel completely different. This
Speaker 1: has been well a long year. Even people lucky enough
Speaker 1: not to lose loved ones to COVID have dealt with
Speaker 1: hardships and disappointments. Big and small. People have lost jobs
Speaker 1: or have had to step away from jobs they wanted
Speaker 1: to keep because of caregiving responsibilities. Little pleasures like going
Speaker 1: out for an evening with ends have disappeared or I've
Speaker 1: had to take very different forms. There have been many
Speaker 1: good things for some of us. I've enjoyed seeing so
Speaker 1: much of my baby's first year, but well, babies are tough.
Speaker 1: I'm tired. Supervising virtual learning has been a challenge one
Speaker 1: I know many parents are experiencing. So I am resolving
Speaker 1: to have more fun. I want to have lots of
Speaker 1: things I'm looking forward to. I want little moments of
Speaker 1: the day to feel more pleasurable as well. Now, on
Speaker 1: some level, I know that seems like an easy resolution,
Speaker 1: but I actually think it's going to be just as
Speaker 1: challenging as the more typical ones to say, lose weight.
Speaker 1: Happiness takes work. Fun takes effort, especially now as many
Speaker 1: traditional sources of fun are less available. I need to
Speaker 1: think through the options and figure out what would still
Speaker 1: be possible. I need to be mindful of my time
Speaker 1: and think through what would be meaningful and enjoyable. That
Speaker 1: requires time to plan and time to figure out logistics,
Speaker 1: but the payoff is well fun. We can go through
Speaker 1: stretches of time where we forget what it's like to
Speaker 1: really enjoy ourselves. There are so many half to dous
Speaker 1: and so many responsibilities. Everyone has some leisure time, but
Speaker 1: when it appears, we're not prepared to do anything with it,
Speaker 1: and so we do the most effortless things possible. Social
Speaker 1: Media is definitely fun for a while, but seldom for
Speaker 1: too long. I don't really find myself looking forward to
Speaker 1: a long Twitter session, but at dinner out with my husband, sure,
Speaker 1: A solo walk through a beautiful holiday light display, absolutely,
Speaker 1: even a run in nice weather can be fun, or
Speaker 1: a new food, or listening to a favorite podcast or album.
Speaker 1: Resolving to have fun focuses my brain on thinking through
Speaker 1: what I'd like to do more of with my time
Speaker 1: and how I might make that possible. So maybe you'd
Speaker 1: like to resolve to have more fun too. Once we
Speaker 1: put our problem solving abilities to this question, there's no
Speaker 1: telling what might happen well, except that we'll be enjoying
Speaker 1: day to day life a lot more. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
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