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I thought that the whole point of being more conscious and grounded and you know living a value of life was like getting my

planner out of the way and being more spontaneous but actually according to some

recent studies when we plan and schedule something fun into our calendar,

we actually view that activity as 30% more fun than if we just did it spontaneously.

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Hey everybody it's Gene Chatsky. Thank you so much for joining me today on her money.

So how many times over the last few months have you loaded the dishwasher given the kids a bath, dialed into a less than

productive Zoom meeting. Put on a load of laundry, put on another load of laundry, cooked dinner, help the kids with

homework because these days it's all homework and I could go on the point is that although by now we've all found our new COVID routines

We've also found our COVID ruts and there is no Rutt like a COVID rut. Why? Because we don't have birthday parties or

graduations to mark on our calendars. We don't have vacations to look forward to.

We don't even have an opportunity to enjoy a slice of cake around the water cooler because we are not together.

The point is it seems like all our milestones and

celebrations have just been stripped from life and replaced with more drudgery,

more responsibility, more adulting. more today, Katina Muntanos, a mindset coach and the author of On Adulting, how millennials and any

human really can work less, live more, and bend the rules for good.

Katina is also the co-founder of the mental well-being

startup daydreamers and is getting her masters

in clinical psychology at Columbia University.

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