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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to put good things on repeat. If you

enjoy something, notice that and figure out how to build it into your life frequently. That way,

normal, everyday time can be as enjoyable as possible.

So this episode is first airing around Groundhog's Day, a somewhat made-up holiday in the U.S.,

where we see whether there will be six more weeks of winter, based on whether a groundhog

here in Pennsylvania sees his shadow. All very silly. However, Groundhog

Day was also a famous movie about a not-so-nice gentleman, forced to live the same day

over and over again. The question the movie poses in its own way is how one should live,

if you were going to live a day, on repeat. Longtime listeners know that I like

this question, which is why I do an episode just about every Groundhog's Day on this topic. I love

putting big bucketless type activities like traveling to the Galapagos into my schedule. But much of our happiness in life

is determined by how we are spending the hours on a normal day. If we can figure out how to

upgrade these everyday minutes and hours, then life will be more enjoyable. Basically, we want to

create normal days that we could live over and over

again, and that would continue to make us happy as we did so. So today's tip is to figure out what small

things create bits of joy in your schedule, and then figure out how you can make them happen

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