Wishes for the week

Ask people what they'd like to see happen and you can probably make wishes come 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 that when you do your weekly planning, think
about your wishes for the week and ask other people

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for their wishes too. That creates a lot of positive
buy in for the week and may lead everyone to
be happier. Today's tip was inspired by Rishmashaw, a pediatrician
who focuses on food and family eating patterns. When Sarah
Hart Hunger interviewed doctor Shaw for our Best of Both

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Worlds podcasts, she said that when she is planning her meals,
she invites her kids to give me your wishes for
the week. Then she can build their requests within reason
into the menu plan. Like this idea, even if you
are doing the meal planning, you don't have to come
up with everything all by yourself. If other people share

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their wishes, they are more likely to get a meal
they like, and if you are lucky, there might be
fewer complaints since everyone had a voice in the menu.
Doctor Shaw focuses on wishes for the week in relation
to food, but it could also be wise to ask
yourself and anybody you plan for about wishes for the week.

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More broadly, as you are getting to do your weekly planning,
you might realize that you'd like to go see a
particular exhibit at an art museum. Your kids might like
to go ice skating, Your partner might want to sit
by the fire pit with you one night after your
kids go to bed. Or maybe your wish for the
week is more practical, You might want to cook and

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freeze a bunch of meals to make things easier for
your future self during an upcoming busy season work. You
could also ask about wishes for the week when you
are headed into a vacation week. That way, you can
build people's wishes into your travel plans. There's magic in
doctor Shaw's phrasing of wishes for the week. It creates

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a sense of possibility, perhaps even delight. It elicits more
smiles and anticipation than just what do you want to
do or what do you want for dinner? I could
tell you firsthand that both of those are likely to
be met with the unhelpful response of I don't know,
or a general claim that people want to do nothing.

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So when you plan the coming week, consider asking yourself
and perhaps others in your household about their wishes for
the week. Whatever the wishes, thinking about them in advance
lets you plan to make your wishes and other people's
wishes come true. In the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks

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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, you can reach me at Laura at Laura
vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartMedia.

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