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Episode 383: Being a Cookbook Writer: Ins and Outs for 2026 · Cookbook Love Podcast

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You are listening to the Cookbook Love podcast with Maggie
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Green, episode number 3 83.
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Welcome to the Cookbook Love Podcast, a podcast that celebrates cookbook readers,
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buyers, collectors, writers and clubs.
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And now your host.
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Cookbook author, culinary Dietician, and Cookbook writing Coach Maggie Green.
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Hi everybody.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love podcast.
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Welcome to 2026.
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I think I probably said that last week, but last week's episode on New Year's
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Day was recorded in 2025, recorded before the holidays, before I had my
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reflection time at the end of the year.
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So this episode really feels different to me because this is in fact the
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first recorded episode of 2026, and it comes on the heels of me having
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some time to spend in reflection about 2025, and I'm going to use episode
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3 33, the ins and outs of 2025.
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As the place to start this show, which is called the ins and outs of
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2026, uh, one of my favorite things to do is to think about things that
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I want to start doing more of things that I want to stop doing in my life.
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Um, things that I want to let go of, things that I wanna bring forward.
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So what I'm gonna do is give you a little bit of a, um.
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Process I went through, tell you about how I arrived at this, uh,
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discussion we're gonna have today.
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I'm gonna give you an update of my 2025 based on what I
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said was ins and outs of 2025.
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And we're gonna talk about 2026 and the, uh, the fresh start that
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we have here in this new year.
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So a couple of things in order to prepare for this episode, I did two major things.
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Number one.
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I went back and listened to episode 3 33.
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If you want to do some goal setting and make some changes in your
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life, there's nothing like telling an audience of people hundreds.
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Thousands of people, what you're going to do for the year, and then going back and
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listening to it and seeing how you did.
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So, uh, if you don't have a formal way to record what it is you want to do for the
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year, maybe write a letter to yourself and send it on January 1st, 2027, back
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to yourself so that you can read it.
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But I found it very.
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Fascinating and it revealed a few things to me, which I'm going to
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actually talk about when we get into 2026, um, and talking about 2026.
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But I went back and listened to that episode, took notes about the
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things I said I was gonna do, what I was gonna let go of, um, how 2025
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might be a year of more of some things and less of some things.
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And then I took a trip through my phone.
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Photos month by month.
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I looked at all the photos I took in January, February, March, April, all
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the way through to the end of December, and I compared my list of photos and,
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uh, things that I did with my photos based on the ins and outs list of, uh,
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2025 that I recorded for the podcast.
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So, lemme give you an update first.
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Uh, one of the things that I mentioned that I wanted to explore and do more of
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was looking at hanging, uh, artwork and, uh, different photos on a gallery wall.
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A gallery wall is when things are kind of randomly placed on your wall, and it's a
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way to decorate your house, but use up.
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Um, several of the photos or pieces of art that you have.
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Um, I kind of, I've always liked this look of a gallery wall and I
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did create a small gallery wall in my dining room, so it's four randomly
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placed, uh, photos and pieces of art.
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Um, but then it expanded kind of into thinking about doing it in another room.
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But instead I turned that room into a reading room and a place
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where I can sit and write and do some, uh, watercolors, which I'm
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gonna talk about here in a minute.
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It's on the southeast corner of my home, gets a ton of natural light.
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It happens to be higher up because of the, uh, pitch of our house than the others.
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I see the trees a lot.
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Kind of feels like a little tree house room.
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So, um, my gallery wall expanded into.
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Or setting up some things in that room to really make it more usable for me
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to have another place outside of my cookbook bunker to do some creative things
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or, and to do some reading, writing, and then gonna talk about watercolor.
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So the gallery wall was, um.
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Semi achieved.
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I do have a big wall in my living room that I think would
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look great for a gallery wall.
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Um, I'm not committing to doing that gallery wall over the next 90 days.
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If it ends up being something that, uh, crops up later in the year,
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I might pay attention to it then.
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But for now, I'm not really bringing that plan into 2026.
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Another thing was photo albums.
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Um, I talked about committing to looking at my digital photos.
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Creating photo albums.
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I did not do that.
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But what I do, did do, and something that I've always enjoyed doing is
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every year I make a calendar for our family, our adult children of, uh,
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pictures from the month, um, on the front facing page of the calendar.
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So it's a wall calendar that they can use.
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And um, it's always fun to go back through the photos, look at what
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we've done together and to put.
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Uh, special photos on the photo calendar.
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So I'd say kind of halfway did that, but um, still I have a ton of digital photos.
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I am sure this is not unique if you have transitioned to
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using your phone as a camera.
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Um, everybody's got tons of digital photos, so I still think about that a
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lot, um, but didn't spend as much time in my brain as I thought it might.
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But anyway, the photo calendar was a great, um, alternative.
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Um, another thing I talked about was making sourdough rye bread,
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and I have decided that is definitely an out for me for 2026.
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I am not going to focus on anything related to sourdough
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or bread baking, mainly because.
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I'm not a, I'm not that big of a baker, and I've always known that about myself.
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When I'm in the kitchen, it's usually related to preparing savory foods,
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protein, salads, soups, stews, um, cooking simple dinners for myself Now,
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Warren and I, um, baking is not something that I do even for fun or for joy.
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I'll occasionally make, um.
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My favorite batch of, uh, chocolate chip cookies, which makes a couple cookies
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that I can bake in the toaster oven or what people maybe now call an air fryer.
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Um, but baking is just not my thing, and so sourdough, therefore is not my thing.
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Even making pancakes on the weekend or English muffins not my thing.
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I would much rather take a trip to a bakery.
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A local bakery here in the northern Kentucky Cincinnati area, buy a good
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loaf of bread, slice it, freeze it, and then pull it out and make some toast when
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we want to have, uh, bread like that.
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So I think it's not even that, I'm not that much of a baker, but we don't
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eat a ton of bread on a regular basis.
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So, uh, the sourdough rye is definitely out.
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Um, I did pursue it.
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I did keep my sourdough starter alive.
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I did get rye flour, but I was realizing as I was spending time
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doing it, first of all, it, I didn't really think it was that much fun.
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And second of all, I wasn't using the starter.
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And if I was, um, we weren't really eating the bread that much,
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that we were ba I was baking.
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So even though it sounded like a lot of fun.
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And I'm sure for people that do a lot of baking, it's great and people
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that have starters for 20 years and, and bake, um, it's wonderful.
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Keep, keep up the good work, but it just isn't for me.
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So that's definitely out.
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Um, cold weather walks wonderful.
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I actually think I've turned into a person who prefers to walk in
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the cold and not in the heat.
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So a couple of things I noticed though.
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I tend to like to walk around sunrise and sunrise.
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Obviously the time changes of sunrise throughout the year and also what
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else changes is the temperature.
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Um, cold weather walking though is possible in the afternoon and it's still
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cold out and it's a bright sunny day.
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So a couple of things that I've realized, um.
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Walking every day.
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Terrific.
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I can spend 30 minutes walk around my neighborhood.
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There's a certain thing I only listen to when I walk, and, um, it is an
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excellent way for me to get out and move.
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I spend a lot of time sitting as a coach, as a writer, as a podcaster.
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Um, spend a lot of time at my desk, so the moving is great.
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The fresh air is great.
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The light is great, and um, I kind of think of it like taking a cold plunge.
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You know, people talk about cold plunges.
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I'm not necessarily interested in jumping in a cold body of water or even taking
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a cold shower, but for me, a cold walk is an excellent replacement for that.
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And I have naturally curly hair.
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It doesn't seem to bother my hair.
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If the humidity's low and it's cold out, um, summertime and
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springtime are obviously different.
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Those shoulder seasons where the temperatures start to creep up, um, I
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definitely prefer to walk in the morning or later in the evening, maybe around
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sunset and, uh, then take a bath or a shower and then go to bed and not so much.
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Um.
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Cold weather, walking obviously, but more sunset walking rather than sunrise.
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So I hope that all of this is to say, um, walking has still been
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an important part of my life.
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It is definitely in for 2026 and over the holidays I committed to two things every
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day that was taking a walk and drinking lots of water and, um, I slept great.
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Felt great.
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Had a terrific time with my family and, uh, friends over the holidays.
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Enjoyed my time alone here, um, after everybody, uh, left for the holidays.
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And I have no doubt that walking and hydration were an
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important part of, um, that, um.
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But I did, I didn't even take Tylenol or Ibuprofen all holiday long.
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So very proud of that.
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So cold weather, walking great.
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Definitely in, uh, well, another thing I said for 2025 was in-person shopping
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and mainly to support the stores that we have here in our area that I like to
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shop at, especially if you're trying on clothes, um, being able to try things on.
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And, um, last year I went to a couple of weddings.
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I did need to buy dresses.
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It's easier for me to buy dresses and pants if I try them on.
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There's a couple of stores where I always like to go to do that, and I
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did make several trips to that store.
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They had great selection and it was great to be able to do that.
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Now, the flip side of that is I have also been taking advantage of grocery store.
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Delivery.
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Now, some of you may think, well Maggie, this has like, been around for years,
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but I always valued, um, going to the supermarket and I still do to like, for
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discovery, um, to see what's out there.
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And I still plan to do that.
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But something that's in for me for 2026 is more.
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Delivery of my pantry items, um, every week and fresh produce meat
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every week so that I can spend the time that I was going to the grocery,
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um, either riding or doing my cold weather, walking this time of year.
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And, um.
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I think it also helps with not buying things that are necessarily off list.
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I think it's better for food budgeting.
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Um, when I shop on the app, I also can take advantage of
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coupons and things like that.
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So that's a big switch for me.
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'cause I think you all know I love to go to the supermarket.
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I, I think one of the reasons I really liked it is because
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I work here in my home.
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My office is in my home, and it gave me a chance to connect with people face to face
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and to do a little bit, people watching.
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Kind of paying attention to what people are shopping and buying.
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So that's a little bit of a shift for me.
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So in-person shopping, definitely for clothes, but I have to say one
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thing that's gonna be in for 2026 is seeing how I like, um, getting basic
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pantry staples and things delivered to my home for, um, for my groceries.
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Um, another thing that was in, in 20 that I wanted to be in, in 2025 that
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worked great, that's gonna remain is.
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Telling myself I have time.
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I believe I do have time to do anything that I want to do, especially at
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this phase in my life when all of my children are grown adults and out of
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the house on their own, and it's me and Warren and I have tons of time.
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And telling myself that has been great.
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I, I very rarely think, oh, I don't have time for that.
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I, um, I really do believe that my time is my life.
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If I'm alive, I have time.
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And that's true for all of us.
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If we are alive, we have.
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Time, we have minutes of our life that we get to choose how we want to spend them.
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So telling myself I have time has been life changing.
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I will definitely carry that over into 2026.
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Um, I also wanted to create things that were tangible, tactile, and real.
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I do that in the kitchen a lot obviously.
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I, um, also did some cross stitch read books, um, physical books.
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And just have enjoyed this whole concept of creating real tactile things
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that I can see, uh, taste, touch, feel, smell, something like that.
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Um, real tangible things.
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Um, so what's out?
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Um, and this is kind of combined with what I did from 2025 and then even
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some new things that are out in 2026.
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So number one that's out is making sourdough.
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Or rye bread or thinking I'm a bread baker.
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Um, 'cause I'm not number two reading on my phone.
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Um, reading on my Kindle reading newsletters on my phone, um, often
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takes me down rabbit holes of researching things online on my
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phone and I am actually tired of it.
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I want to use my phone for text.
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I wanna use my phone for phone calls.
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I wanna use my phone call if I'm traveling or away from home, and I
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need it to use and check my email.
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But my phone, it occurred to me is not really a phone.
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The phone part of my device is now an app.
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People don't even have to use this thing that we hold in
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our hands as a phone anymore.
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It is a small handheld computer, and I. I'm just tired of
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spending so much time with it.
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It doesn't care about me.
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And as a matter of fact, it actually would prefer I spent more time with
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it, but I'm not going to, I do love to listen to podcasts when I'm walking.
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I do use it to control the sound system in my home.
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We have some Sonos speakers.
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Um, so there's a list of things that I definitely will use it for, but I am done.
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Was sitting on my phone and using it for, uh, various things
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that don't create anything.
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Uh, research and reading and Reddit and all that kind of stuff.
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I'm, I'm done if I need to do that.
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It will be at times when I'm at my desktop, at my laptop working
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and doing some research with an intention and not just this endless,
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mindless looking and, uh, whatever.
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So, um, the phone and reading on my phone is, uh, definitely out.
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The other thing that's out for me is indecision.
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It occurred to me that I spend a lot of my time making decisions.
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And going back and forth about options that I have and I ha I think fast
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decisions is what I wanna be in 2026.
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Um, clear yeses and nos to myself and to other people.
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Um, fast decision maker, I think the faster I make decisions.
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And move forward or not with something, uh, the more of my
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brainpower is freed up to focus on the things that I wanna focus on.
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So quick decisions.
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And I also made a list of, um, open loops.
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Things that are open loops, things that I started that are open that I
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need to either finish or let go of.
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An example is, uh, for example, the gallery wall thing.
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I kind of had an open loop in my mind all 2025, about doing a gallery wall.
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And I had that open loop about the sourdough rye and I tried
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'em, and I've just decided they're not open loops anymore.
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I'm closing the loop.
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Sourdoughs done gallery wall for now is done.
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And that just frees up my mind to do, um, other things.
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So make a list.
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There might be open loops of things you can't control.
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Um, that's not what I'm talking about.
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I'm talking about loops that you have opened that you need to close
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or decide not to close, and just being very clear about those.
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And so, um, I'm gonna take care of the open loops here early that
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didn't have that long of a list, but.
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I figured the better I get easier it'll be for me and better just
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to get rid of those open loops.
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Um, also out this year, we didn't get tickets to the playhouse this year.
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Um, there's a comedian, we wanna go see some sporting events we want to attend.
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So, um, we're not going to do any, uh, play tickets this year.
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So that's out.
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Um, in, lemme talk about some of the ins, some of the things
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that are kind of new this year.
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Um, I'm thinking a lot about connection this year, connection with people,
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and I made a list of all the places that I'm connected with people.
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'cause sometimes when we work from our home, we think we're
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not connected to people.
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But the truth of the matter is, every week I am connected to
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thousands and thousands of people.
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Every week I am connected to thousands and thousands of people.
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Number one, if you're listening to this podcast, I'm connected to you.
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You're connected to me.
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We may not know each other physically, we may not know, or even, you know,
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if we met on the street, we maybe wouldn't know it, but it doesn't matter.
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There still is a connection.
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I'm so grateful for that and I never forget that there are people
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on the other end of this microphone listening to what I'm talking about.
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So connected to you there.
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I have an email list, thousands of people on my email list,
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and I'm connected to them.
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Not all of them read every email I send.
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Not all of them will remain on my email list.
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Some of them might unsubscribe, and over the course of the next
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year, I'll get thousands more.
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Uh, but I'm thousands of people on my email list.
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And that's, that's the truth.
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And so I'm connected there also with people.
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Um, my family, between brothers, sisters, brother-in-laws, nieces, nephews, you
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know, we've got 35, 40 people, my friends.
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Their children, uh, people I know through a, uh, walking with purpose group that
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I'm in, people that I know through, um,
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uh, the par the parish that I belong to, people that I know and, and connected to
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through, um, things that I know people from when my children were in school,
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parents that I'm still connected with.
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Um.
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On a regular basis.
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Um, my clients, my customers, my prospects, um, and again, people
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who are also on my email list.
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Um, so it's easy to think that we maybe aren't that connected, but I
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promise if you really sit down and think about it, you probably are.
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And if you're in business.
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I think the thing to remember is that growing our base of people who are
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coming newly into our ecosystem, or into our communities or into our world, is
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the foundation of a growing business.
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It's the foundation of a successful business because we always need
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new people and we need to, um.
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Keep the people that we already have in our community and then customers
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that we currently have keeping them, um, engaged and happy with wonderful
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experiences working with them.
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So I think it's always important to think about connections with people.
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And it's not just an email address.
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It's not just a. A number or a podcast, um, listener.
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It's not just a follower on social media.
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At the end of all of those hopefully are real people who are in your community for
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a reason, and that's why you all are here.
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And um, I just think it's amazing how many thousands of people I'm
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connected with, um, on a weekly basis.
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So connections for me are definitely in, I think about that a lot.
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I'm gonna spend a lot of time thinking about that in 2026.
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And, um, the next thing that's in is, I don't think I've told you
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this yet, but we have two new cats.
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Um, if you've been following the podcast, we had our, uh, 8-year-old
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male cat put to sleep in June of 2025.
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Um, his beautiful cat, very friendly, very loving, and it
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was very sad because he got sick.
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I think he actually was probably.
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Young as it goes in terms of cats, um, to lose him at the age of eight.
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So I spent a couple of months and most of the summer not having any, uh, cats.
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And then I have a friend that fosters cats and she was fostering too.
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Long-haired black female cats.
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Uh, a mom and her baby mom was about three years old.
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Baby was about 11 months old, so I visited with them.
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I spent some time with them and ended up adopting them together
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because they're a bonded pair, um, in the middle of November.
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It's been a really fun to watch them evolve, to watch them kind of come
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out of their shell, to go from, you know, spending time in just one room
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of our house to now, you know, they go up and down all over the house.
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Uh, they're very sweet.
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They kind of sometimes stick to themselves.
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They have each other to keep each other entertained.
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Um, they're not always seeking me out for lap time and all
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that kind of stuff, which is.
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Uh, perfectly fine, but they're always in the room that I'm in spending time there.
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So they've been sweet girls.
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And, um, that is in, in 2026 is having these two new cats.
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The other thing that's in for me is reading fiction.
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Um, I tend, I tended to spend a lot of time reading
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nonfiction might be related to.
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Um, business psychology, spirituality, theology, um, and I love those
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kinds of books, but I decided in 2026 I wanna read more fiction.
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So I'm getting ready to finish my first book.
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It's called On the Calculation of Volume.
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Um, this woman, actually, I believe it was a Danish book, but she has written seven.
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Books called on the calculation of volume, volume 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
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I'd read volume one.
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I gotta decide if I'm gonna continue to read, uh, the other volumes because
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it's about a woman that experiences a Groundhog Day situation where every day
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when she wakes up, it's November the 18th.
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Every day and her experience of reliving the same day over and over and over again.
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Um, got a lot of thoughts about that book.
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But anyway, so that's the first fiction book I'm reading and I've
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got other fiction books that I've on my table, um, that I plan to read.
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So more fiction.
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Um, the other thing that's in, I did mention it a little bit
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earlier, is doing watercolors.
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Um, something that I thought I might do more of in 2025 was writing letters,
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and I didn't actually write that many letters, but I did continue to send cards.
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I usually am pretty good about remembering people's birthdays,
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sending cards, um, sympathy cards, get well cards, thinking of you cards.
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I love to do that.
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So I decided if I was going to want to dabble in watercolors.
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I'm going to work on using watercolors to make some cards and
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to send those, um, in the mail.
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So I'll be combining those two little hobbies and we will see how that goes.
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My 90 day goal here, the first part of the year is to, um, kind of get a
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space set up where I can do watercolor, um, take a little course about
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watercolors and um, get rolling on.
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I'm learning more about that in a small format, which is, I think my
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cards are gonna be like four by six.
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So I'm excited about the watercolor opportunity.
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Um, the other thing that's in that was new in 2025 was feeding the birds.
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I, uh, started to do that last fall and continued through the winter,
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even bought some bird seed, um, at a local store that had a bird seed sale.
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Um.
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I use Finch food, bigger sunflower seeds.
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I sprinkle some on the ground, I sprinkle some on a wall.
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I put some in a feeder.
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It's been really great and fun to, uh, feed the birds.
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So I plan to continue that in 2026.
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I also, um, on my patio this summer had, uh, tomato plants,
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basil plants, and lots of flowers.
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We have brick walls on our patio, so it, and it's a southern
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exposure, so it gets very warm.
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Basil and tomatoes both like the heat.
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Um, it was really great to have those.
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We harvested so many cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes and yellow
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pear tomatoes and tons of basil.
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Even brought the, some of the basil in and was able to use some of the plants for,
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uh, dish I made for a Christmas brunch.
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I hosted.
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Um, it's about.
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Done Now.
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I haven't, um, kept it going here in the house, but it's been,
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uh, a lot of fun to have those.
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And I look forward to starting the seeds, raising the basil plants,
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and then, um, enjoying that again.
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Um, all summer and fall, um, in my group coaching program.
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Uh, for those of you that are interested in writing a
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cookbook, I will be doing four.
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Live launches of my cookbook writing program.
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I plan to do my first launch at the beginning of February.
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So if you are ri interested in writing a cookbook of your own and
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finding an agent or a publisher, please be sure to stay tuned.
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I will have more information about that and some special links and downloads
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that you can have access to, um, pre um, cookbook writing information.
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Because I think that writing a cookbook and living the life of a cookbook
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writer is, uh, just the best thing ever.
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Uh, food touches people's lives in a way that, um, a lot of other things don't.
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And.
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Cookbooks end up being a book that you write that people develop a relationship
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with, and I love to think about books and being a cookbook writer in that way.
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So, um, be prepared and keep your ears open for, um, the launching of, um, my
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cook, my group cookbook writing programs.
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Um, first one again coming up in February
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and.
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I think that is it.
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So what about you?
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What do you want to do more of in 2026?
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What do you wanna do less of in 2026?
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What do you.
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Want to close some loops on in 2026, what do you need to let go of?
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I in particular, encourage you to let go of anything that you do not
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have direct control over any way.
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Sometimes we spend so much of our time in mental energy thinking about
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things that we have zero control over.
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Is that worth it for you to do that?
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What kind of life does it, uh, lead you to live?
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And I refuse to spend my precious mental energy and time worrying about
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things that I have zero control over.
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If I do have control over something or I can affect a change in some
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areas and I want to spend time thinking about it, then I say
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definitely, uh, put that on your list.
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But there might be some things that we all need to let go of
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that we just can't control.
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And then, uh, what do you wanna bring forward from 2025?
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What was working well for you and, uh, what do you want to continue?
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So that is it for today's episode of the ins and outs of 2025.
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For the Cookbook Love podcast.
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This is your host, Maggie Green, and until next time, have a great
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day and keep loving your cookbooks.
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Thanks for listening to the Cookbook Love podcast.
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You can find out more information@www.cookbooklove.co.