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 that if you are aiming to get together with friends more regularly,

try your idea for a new routine as a limited engagement.

You can commit for a short period of time and enjoy it while it lasts,

and then decide whether you want to stick with it for longer, or tweak things to make

it better.

So I think most of us understand that few things in life last forever.

Sunday brunch with your girlfriends might last for years,

but you will probably not all move in together in retirement,

Golden Girls style.

Your Tuesday morning run with your exercise buddy might last a decade.

But then pause when you're injured and somehow never resume. So it goes. Something can be

wonderful for a long time and then you move on to something else.

But few of us consider the end when we are starting.

I guess we are natural optimists, but the problem is that sometimes we don't try things

because, well, we suspect we won't want to do them forever.

But you don't have to do something forever.

You can explicitly try it for a while as a limited engagement.

For instance, over at my sub-stack newsletter,

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