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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 that if life

has been feeling a little busy, you might choose to plan a

night of nothing as a chance to recharge. It is impossible to actually do nothing, but having no

scheduled commitments can sometimes be nice. If you've been listening to Before Breakfast for a while, you know I love the idea of planning

little adventures into life, especially if your life features a lot of have-to-dos, it's important

to put in some want-to-dos alongside those things.

But if you've got a lot of community commitments, kids' sports, and so forth,

sometimes life can start to feel very full. There is downtime, perhaps after your commitments are done

in the evening, but it doesn't feel like as much as you want. That's where a night of nothing comes in. I recently encountered this term,

Night of Nothing, to describe an intentionally planned night for staying home and chilling.

Now again, to be clear, I have seen thousands of time logs, and I can tell you that most people

do a so-called night of nothing again and again.

It looks like the routine of dinner, getting kids to bed if you have kids, and then watching TV,

or doing some other sort of screen time. Most people could massively benefit from joining

some sort of community activity that would involve

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