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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 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 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 you weren't thinking about optimizing the full 8,760 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.
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 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.
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, 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.
When many moments are put through this rubric of it being the best year yet.
Well, it's just possible, it will 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.
This would naturally be just kind of a ho-hum year, 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 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.
If you've got questions, ideas or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at LauraVanderkam.com.
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