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Good morning. This is Laurel.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that you can make what you know will be a good day even better by tweaking your schedule to add more good things and removing things that you won't want to do.

These almost perfect days can then become deep memories thanks to your careful cultivation.

So hopefully anyone who listens to this podcast knows how important it is to plan in things that you

are looking forward to. Maybe it's tickets to a concert in a few months or to an exciting sporting

event next week. Positive anticipation makes life more exciting and hopeful. Honestly, on bad days,

it can be what makes us get out of bed. But if you know something good is coming up, by being strategic,

you can make the whole day even more exciting. We all have some discretion over our schedules

and how much effort we put into planning good things. I'd argue that it can be fun to put even more good stuff on an already good day,

so that you go from happiness to happiness all day long.

So, for instance, let's say you get massages every two months or so,

and you also have tickets to a favorite band on a particular night. You could try scheduling your massage for the day you have the concert. So as you

are relaxing on the massage table, you are also excited about the concert, happening in a few hours.

Or maybe it's that you've got tickets to a football game on Saturday afternoon.

Could you have breakfast that morning with a good friend?

Or perhaps you've scored a coveted reservation at a great restaurant for Friday night.

Could you plan to take a longer lunch break

and go walk on that gorgeous trail

that's not too far from your office?

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