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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that if you're doing something for fun and it turns out not to be fun, you can stop.

Just because you started doesn't mean you have to finish.

I know that before breakfast listeners are diligent and persistent people.

So my guess is that many folks listening to this have started watching a movie and then realized five minutes in that it was going to be a dud.

Yet you stayed until the end.

You have finished books that you didn't enjoy.

You have eaten a whole order of french fries, which from the first bite was irredeemably cold and soggy.

You have dutifully shown up at a book club every month, even though you dreaded it.

What's funny about this is that people go to movies, read books, eat french fries, and make social plans because these things are supposed to be enjoyable.

It's not like your soul was going to be elevated by that action movie or that the french fries were going to have any nutritional value.

They are supposed to be fun, full stop.

So why do we continue doing things that we are supposed to enjoy if they are not enjoyable?

I've thought about this a lot. I suppose sometimes we go on autopilot.

We stick with what we started because we aren't really noticing that we're not getting anything out of it.

Maybe other times we are hoping against hope that it will get better eventually.

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