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 make a mini bucket list for 2021 of what you most want to read, see, cook, and do. By being very focused in your goals, you vastly

increase the chances that a year from now you'll have made a lot of progress.

Bucket lists or lists of a hundred dreams

are great for generating ideas of special experiences you'd like to have.

You should definitely make big long lists.

But as you're thinking about how to tackle next year,

you might aim a little smaller.

Create a mini bucket list with just four items,

something you want to read, see, cook, and do.

Here's what I mean.

The read aspect is pretty self-explanatory.

What book do you most want to read?

Sure, you'll probably read lots of books next year.

But by setting an intention around one book in particular, you increase the chances that you will actually

read it.

Lots of people go through life intending to read Tolstoy's War and Peace or James Joyce's Ulysses or Tony Morrison's Song of Solomon, sometime, but never

get around to actually reading them.

This could be the year.

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