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Today is episode 187.

Rethinking Opening Ceremonies

I love implementing opening and closing ceremonies into my year and especially into the fall

and winter holiday season. I'm going to go into what those are more specifically in a second

case you're new to this concept, new to the Lazy Genius family. But as we all know,

holidays in 2020 are not what we expected, right? So how can we rethink traditions and gatherings

and opening ceremonies during such an upside down time? This episode will hopefully offer some

encouragement in that. So first thing. What is an opening ceremony? Those like an important place

to start, it is what it sounds like. It is an intentional marker for the beginning of something.

I was inspired by opening and closing ceremonies from the Olympics. I was watching a few years ago

and I just started thinking about what that whole event would feel like without the opening ceremonies.

I mean, what if the Olympic Games, like they just started? One day there's nothing and in the

next day people are shooting rifles and skiing and stuff. The opening ceremony is marking the

beginning of something special. It's almost existing with equal importance as the thing that it is

marking. So now you're opening ceremony. It can be like really, really grand and exciting. You

know, like a Olympic style. It can take up a day or a whole weekend or it can simply be saying

to yourself in your head, here we go into this next thing, you know, and you take a deep breath

or you listen to a song or you eat a specific meal. It can be whatever you need it to be.

There is an entire episode on these ceremonies if you want some ideas and I'm pretty sure

that there's even an Instagram post where folks have shared theirs for the fall. If we can track

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