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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to always have something to look forward to.

Even a dark outlook can lighten with something bright on the horizon.

And it turns out that we have the power to engineer a lot of really good future stuff

into our lives. Life feels better when we're always doing just that. I know that planning has

been, well, a fraught topic for the past few months. Long-time listeners may recall that I urged

everyone to plan all of their 2020 vacations before the year started. Anyone who took

my advice has probably been doing a lot of cancelling. But even though

plans sometimes have to change, I do think there is value in planning and in

particular there is value in planning in fun stuff.

Always having something to look forward to allows us to weather rough times

as we think of the good stuff to come. This is because anticipation

actually accounts for the bulk of the happiness we gain from any event. One study

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