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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 that life is mostly made up of memories.
We can anticipate the future, but that is largely unknown.
The present is fleeting.
memories we truly have.
This ratio means that it might be worth organizing life to pay a bit more attention to memories than we might naturally be inclined to do.
So when you make your plans for the day or for a weekend or even for your year, my guess is that there are many criteria.
You figure out what needs to get done.
You ask what other people are doing.
You consider what feels relaxing or what is easiest at the moment.
For most of us, what makes the most or the best memories is not going to be the primary consideration.
And I'm not saying that it should be, but I think it should be a bigger consideration than it often is.
That is because life is made up of memories.
The future is uncertain.
You can barely think about the present before it is gone.
Memories, based on a past that actually happened, are the most known part of our life stories.
When we plan our lives to optimize memories, we create a story we will be able to hold on to, one that can make our lives feel more like they happened than that they were completely forgettable.
Time feels stretched out.
We don't say, where did the time go, when we remember where the time went.
What this means in practice is nudging ourselves to do things that create more memories.
These may not always be the easiest or most comfortable things to do in the moment.
But if we realize that life is mostly memory, we might be more motivated.
For instance, traveling can be fun, but to be honest, big chunks of it can be a bother.
Plane flights are uncomfortable.
So is sleeping in new beds.
Adjusting to uncertainty can be challenging, as is being apart from familiar routines and foods and other things.
But when you think of your memories of any given year, I would guess that any major trips you took are one of the key ways that you define the year.
Oh yes, that's the summer when we went to France.
My mother -in -law recently shared some of her memories with the family in an album she created for all of us.
Many of her recollections had to do with her travels.
Certainly, you will have more memories of, say, a week spent on a safari than a week spent in your apartment.
Now you can't spend all your weeks on safari but if you have the opportunity to take a trip from time to time it is probably going to be a better memory than not traveling even if not traveling is more comfortable I have tracked my time for over 7 years now and I have recently begun studying my time
logs from 6 years ago when the date cycle was the same as it was for this past year December 26 being a Monday in both 2022 and 2016.
The normal days of work and kid care and Costco runs are hard to place.
But when I see something unusual on my log, something a little adventurous, I can conjure up those memories pretty quickly.
Memories make past times feel more rich and full.
now of course there is nothing wrong with routines and the normal rhythm of work and kid care and costco runs but even any given week can be made a little different by doing something a little different in the deepest days of covid lockdowns one family i know of made a giant game of chutes and ladders
with chalk on their driveway.
Life is a memory, and in normal life, that became one.
In any case, as you plan the next week or the next few weeks, try taking into account what memories you would like to have of this time.
Memories are not just a passive result of life happening.
They are something we can consciously choose to cultivate.
Yes, we can have memories from things that are just spontaneously occurring, but they are also the result of our planning them in and choosing to do interesting, adventurous, novel, intense things.
Maybe not every day, but not never either.
When we take memory into account with our plans, we simply do these things more often.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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