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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that micro-adventures make downtime more fun.

Real time management masters know how to make even bits of time confetti feel memorable.

So my other podcast, Best of Both Worlds, has a Patreon community where we meet virtually once a

month for a discussion.

At a recent one, we discussed adventures and how to build more into our lives.

Now, everyone knows how to take a vacation, but it was a little harder to come up with ideas

for adventures you could do without leaving home or adventures that would take 30 minutes or less.

But those are far more regular scenarios than flying to the Bahamas.

Many of us wind up with times when we probably aren't going anywhere, or else we don't have a ton

of time, but we would rather not sit there scrolling around on our phones, seeing this time disappear into nothingness.

So why not brainstorm a few micro-adventures? Make a list with these two categories. At home,

and then less than 30 minutes. There will probably be some overlap between the two, but also

some separate things as well. For instance, in 30 minutes, I could make a quit stop by my local

library, or let the kids bike down the street to a neighbor's house, where they have this really

awesome swing. In 30 minutes, I could go walk around a

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