Browse for a project

Spark your imagination for new ways to spend your leisure time.

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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 that when you are looking for an activity
for your leisure time browse for a project, you may

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be surprised to find something fun that you didn't really
even know you were looking for. So, if you are
a reader, you are probably used to going to a
bookstore or a library to browse. You might be reminded
of a book you've been meaning to read for a while,
or something new might catch your eye, but you are

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unlikely to leave without finding something you want to read.
For other forms of leisure, too, browsing can be a
great way to spark your thinking about how you'd like
to spend your time. For instance, if you'd like to
work your create of muscles, you could go to a
craft store like Michael's and just go see what catches

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your eye. Maybe you'll get some moregami paper and in
the weekend with some fantastic boots. You could grab scrap
booking supplies and make a scrap book about your kid's
first few weeks of kindergarten. You could get paper, stickers
and markers and make a card for your friend who
just got a new job. I have no idea what

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you will find, but if you give yourself a little
time to wander around, no doubt something we'll catch your eye.
Or maybe you're leaning more toward a gardening project. Head
to a nursery and meander admiring all the interesting plants
until you spot something that is perfect for that corner

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of your garden that you keep meaning to address. Or
perhaps you love puzzles or legos. I know I do,
so I like to browse the puzzle table of a
bookstore or the lego aisle of Target. I know some
parents who take their kids to hobby Lobby or Target,
give them a ten dollar or even twenty dollars bill

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and invite them to buy what they'd like to make
the afternoon or weekend enjoyable. Adults can browse for a
project just for fun too. Now, maybe this all sounds
a little strange to you. You are thinking, Laura, I
do not have time to meander around a store, let
alone spend several evening or weekend hours pursuing a project.

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And maybe that's true, But are you sure I remember
that In the first days of COVID stores sold out
of Legos because everyone suddenly discovered some font of free time. Well,
a day still has twenty four hours. Many other things

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turned out to be optional. Or you might try looking
at the screen time function on your phone. If you
have an hour a day browse the web, you probably
have thirty minutes to wander around a store in two hours,
some time to get in touch with your project making self.
So the next time you recognize that you do have

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some leisure time but also have no particular ideas of
how you'd like to spend it, take yourself to a
store you enjoy browse for a project. Who knows what
fun way you'll find to pass the time in the meantime.
This is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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