Make bite-sized bucket lists

Small lists can inspire you to make any chunk of time better.

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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 bite sized bucket lists. Lifetime bucket
lists can sometimes be overwhelming, but smaller lists aimed at

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a specific period of time can feel a lot more
doable and can help you make any stretch of time
the best it can be. Today's episode was inspired by
Jodi Wellman's book You Only Die Once. This book is
largely about how to enjoy life more given that it

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is ultimately limited. She has not opposed to grand bucket lists.
You should take that trip to New Zealand sometime, but
even if that is not happening this week, that doesn't
let you off the hook for making this week or
this month as fun as it could be. Hence the
bite sized bucket lists. Create lists like things will do

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in the best July ever. This suggests some ideas like
catch fireflies with the kids, or go tubing, or go
peach picking or light a lot of sparklers. Or perhaps
you create a list of all the things you'd like
to do on an amazing week off on vacation. That
could be things like eat breakfast in bed every morning,

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or if you like more active sort run a five
k on the beach. You could create a list of
the top ten ways we will crush the winter holidays,
which might include checking out the light show downtown or
making Grandma's cookie recipe. Of course, you could make these
lists for your professional life too, Think the best career

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year of my life list, which might include making one
presentation per quarter, or initiate a twelve mentoring sessions, or
actually starting that brown bag lunch series you keep talking
about again. Wellman writes that if you are also inspired
by the good old fashioned big bucket list, I am
not here to stop you from drafting that size large

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list of things to squeeze in before you die. However,
even if you make that list, you might use it
to inform your smaller lists. You might want to visit
the Grand Canyon, But then if you pull that off
and go to the Grand Canyon, you can make a
list of all the ways you are going to make
that an amazing trip, which might include even little things

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like reading a novel at night while you are there.
Long time listeners know I love making seasonal fun lists.
How am I going to enjoy fall? Before fall? Is
over what will go on my holiday fund list? The
more lists we make, the better. Sometimes in a busy life,

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it is hard to figure out what we will do
with our discretionary time, or even what we'd like to
spend time on. In general, it's easy to be reactive,
but time is ultimately limited. I believe we have a
lot of time, but we don't have an infinite amount
of time. So if we are looking to enjoy whatever

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time we have on this planet, it's best to be
a little intentional about it. Bite sized bucket lists can
help make that happen. You could even make a list
like all the ways I Am going to crush Monday.
If you do that, the odds are good that you
will have a better Monday then you would have otherwise.

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If you make a bite sized bucket list, I would
love to hear what you put on it. You can
let me know at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
here's to making the most of our times. Thanks for

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