Best year yet

Telling yourself this will be the best year yet just might make it true

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is to try going into the new year repeating
the phrase best year yet. You just might find yourself

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leading a bigger and more fulfilling life. Over the past
few days, we have talked about lots of different ways
for setting goals and defining the new year. I think
certain structures make goals more likely to happen than otherwise.
But one small tweak that can take time from great
to awesome is to go into the year with the

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mindset that this will be your best year yet. I mean,
why not. Some year has to be your best year yet,
and a year is a very long time. Maybe many
of your previous years have had some good elements. I
certainly hope that they have, But I am guessing that

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you weren't thinking about optimizing the full eight thousand, seven
hundred sixty hours. Even if there aren't big, cool things
happening this year. I am guessing that by focusing on
elevating day to day life, you might make the sum
total of happiness as large as it has ever been.

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So think about how you might remind yourself of this
phrase and how you might incorporate it into your planning
and your daily mindset. As you think about your long
term planning, like blocking in vacations or summer plans, you
might think best year yet and think about what that
would mean during your best year yet. You might go

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out on a limb and suggest renting a place at
the beach with those friends that you truly enjoy hanging
out with during your best year yet. You might sign
up for that pottery class that you have been eyeing
for months. You could also build it into your weekly
planning process, which is often where real time decisions get made.

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If you think best year Yet while planning your week,
maybe you decide to reach out to your work friend
to suggest getting coffee, or you suggest that you draft
an agenda to make that Tuesday morning staff meeting a
little less awful. You can also just repeat best year
yet in any given moment to shift your mindset. Yes,

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you are stuck in traffic on a dreary commute, but
this is your best year yet, darn it. So you'll
think about happy memories, or listen to your favorite album
from your teen years, or call someone you love many
many moments are put through this rubric of it being
the best year yet. Well, it's just possible it will

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be the best year yet. Now I know that no
one can predict life. Sometimes life comes at us, Tragedy happens,
things fall apart. You may not be able to convince
yourself it is the best year yet in those cases,
and I am not saying that you should try. But
it is also possible that nothing truly terrible will happen.

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This would naturally be just kind of a ho humier
as they often are. But in those cases, it is
possible to take normal life from okay to a lot better,
or even from great to awesome by setting the expectation
that it will be. I am hoping that this will

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be my best year yet. How about you? In the meantime,
this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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