Do what you've always wanted to do

Make this the year for crossing little adventures off your list

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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 make this be the year to do
things you have said you have always wanted to do.

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If you hear yourself saying you have always wanted to
do something within reason, get it on the calendar. There
are many experiences that can be easily made a reality
with a tiny bit of planning and thought. As longtime
listeners may know, I love miniatures on the shelves in
my office. I have set up several miniature rooms like

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in a dollhouse, sput without the house. Anytime I am
near a museum with a miniature's collection, I visit. Yet,
somehow it took me years to get to the Philadelphia
Miniatures Show, which has held literally less than forty five
minutes from where I live. I'm not sure exactly why.
I mean, for several years I'd heard myself saying things

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like I'd love to go to the miniatures show some day,
but it was never terribly convenient. Well, it wasn't convenient
this year either. My flight home from Florida was delayed
on the last day of the show, so I almost
missed it, but I decided to go for the last
hour it was open, and when I did, as you
might imagine, I was just entranced so many little things.

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I wish it hadn't taken me so long to go,
but I am glad I made it. I bet you
can identify things you have said you've always wanted to
do as well. I've always wanted to learn Spanish is
something I hear a lot, Or it's my dream to
go to New Orleans for bardigras. I'm dying to try
that new restaurant now. To be sure, there are some
experiences that may not be doable in the near term.

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If you want to write a book or travel to India,
that is going to take time and some longer term planning.
But often people say they want to do things that
are eminently doable, they just haven't done them for no
particular reason. So decide that this year you will do

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those doable things that you have said you have always
wanted to do. One practical way to do this is
to follow my time management rule of planning one big
adventure and one little adventure every week. People who follow
this advice sometimes tell me that their little adventures were
things that they had said they'd wanted to do for ages,

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but they had never actually done. These are things like
trying a new restaurant or coffee shop, or going to
a shop they frequently drive by but have never gone in.
If you find yourself talking wistfully about experiences you would
love to have someday, consider making a list of ten
things you have always wanted to do or have been
meaning to do, and then actually doing them this year.

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Maybe this list would include a mix of restaurants to try,
shops and museums to go to nearby cities or towns
to visit, books to read, movies to watch, recipes to try, gets,
to gathers to host, skills to learn, and so forth.
It could be fun to decide to actually do one
of these activities every week, or even just every month,
until you have knocked out the list. By then you

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will have had a lot of fun, and you hopefully
will have broken the habit of saying you want to
do things but not actually doing them. If you make
this the year you do what you've said you've always
wanted to do, I would love to hear about it.
You can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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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. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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