Before Breakfast

30 minutes can change your evenings

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Nov 11, 2025
Discover how setting a single intention can transform your weekday evenings. Dive into why these hours are often wasted on chores or mindless activities. Learn tips for selecting a 30-minute activity you'll enjoy and how to logistically integrate it into your routine. Find out how those precious minutes can lead to more joyful experiences, even expanding beyond their original time frame. Elevate your evenings one intention at a time!
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ADVICE

Schedule A 30-Minute Evening Intention

  • Think about one 30-minute activity tonight that you'd genuinely enjoy and schedule when it will happen.
  • Prepare the logistics in advance to increase the odds you'll actually do it.
ANECDOTE

September Reset Experiment

  • Laura describes her September Reset project where participants tracked time and tried evening intentions.
  • The project highlighted evenings as 'golden hours' that few people currently use well.
INSIGHT

Evenings Are Longer Than You Think

  • Many people treat long weekday evenings as unusable even though they often span about five hours between work and bed.
  • Recognizing that most people have discretionary time reframes evenings as opportunities, not losses.
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