Hello listeners and welcome back my name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to

episode 280 of sustainable minimalists a twice-weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist

living on today's show we are discussing tangible ways in which you and I

can make the power of anticipation work for us. There is happiness to be found in looking forward to something.

Maybe it's a vacation. Maybe it's a date.

Maybe it's waiting for a package to arrive after you've bought something online.

We have all felt the giddiness that comes with anticipating something desired.

It turns out there are plenty of benefits to anticipation and research has found that anticipation

increases motivation increases optimism increases patience and decreases irritability.

There's also the fact here too that imagining

and planning for good things in the future

makes us feel better in the here and now. It's safe to say that we could all do with a bit more anticipation in our lives, right? Who doesn't want to be more optimistic and

experience more motivation in their daily lives when they're doing their

ho-hum daily tasks? The question though becomes how? If you're like me, you don't have the funds or the free time to

plan amazing vacations every few months to keep up your levels of anticipation and

because you are tuning into this show a show about

sustainable minimalism I'm guessing that you would like to experience the

benefits of anticipation without the online shopping and without the constant of the updated tracking information. By the way, no judgment there. I've been there. I've been there more than a few times.

But often we impulse by because we're bored, right? Because we want to infuse a sense of

excitement into our days.

I believe, and I bet you believe too,

that we can all do this by understanding anticipation

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