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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to pick your long weekend leisure. Before you go into a long

weekend, more so even than just a regular weekend, make sure that you have a first choice

for how to spend your downtime. This increases the chances that you'll spend time on that

and less time on other things.

Today's tip is first airing right around the 4th of July. In the United States, this is a national holiday, and this year it happens to fall on a Friday, which is pretty exciting.

We have a ready-made long weekend. I know a lot of folks are taking advantage of that,

to get to the beach, or go see family, or go to an amusement park, or watch some great fireworks.

But even in a weekend with a lot of stuff going on, there is always some downtime,

hopefully more than a little. The problem is we don't always think about exactly

when this leisure is going to happen, or perhaps we just don't know. You're hanging out at

grandmas and no one is up. Or you didn't go on that group boat ride at the lake, and they're

late coming back, and you're sitting around in the quiet. Now what? The easiest thing,

as usual, is to pick up the phone, but then precious leisure time is spent looking at

influencers you don't even know. It doesn't feel all that rejuvenating. So instead, going into any

long weekend, figure out what your first choice leisure activity is going to be.

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