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 try a day without musts or shoulds.

No obligations, no to-do list, no scheduled commitments.

Especially if a lot of your time is usually spoken for.

Trying this on occasion can provide a fabulous mental health

break that keeps you from getting burned out. On my other podcast Best of

Both Worlds we received a listener question recently about whether

there is ever a day when we fantasize about not getting out of bed.

Spending the whole day in bed, even with a book doesn't sound all that appealing to me.

I would get bored and antsy pretty quickly.

But what I do love occasionally is to have a day with nobody around me that I need to care for,

and no commitment scheduled for a particular time.

On a day like that, I can take the day as it comes and do whatever I am in the mood for.

Perhaps a trail run, a trip to a garden, a spontaneous stop at a restaurant for lunch,

time for a creative writing project, or just looking through an art book while sitting on my porch.

Once in a while, I love the opportunity to do anything I want at the pace that feels right in the moment.

Now, longtime listeners know that I am a major proponent of planning,

so you may wonder how this all fits together.

For most big adventures, planning them in is the way for them to happen.

But there can also be a sense of possibility in just doing whatever you feel like in the moment.

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