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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to go for a 5 p.m. walk.

A little bit of physical activity is a great way to transition between work and the rest of your evening

and can help boost your energy so you can make the most of your evening hours.

Longtime listeners know that I have been exploring the topic of weekday evenings lately.

I like to call these the golden hours.

Just as retirees can celebrate their golden years of leisure and family time, after years of work,

we can celebrate our golden hours every evening.

If you are done with work and commuting by 6 p.m. or so and go to bed at 10 p.m.

You have got four hours each night for family and leisure.

It is not a small amount of time. It is also incredibly hard to use well.

People are tired after a long day. There are often half-to-dos like making dinner and feeding people

and getting kids through homework or to activities, and of course, to bed.

The house might need to be picked up.

And yet even with the have-to-does, there is often some discretionary space.

We just have to think of what we want to do and manage our energy to make it happen. Thinking about what you would like to do

in your golden hours is a topic we've talked about in other episodes. But today's tip is about how to have

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