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IT'S WORTH WAITING FOR

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August 2023

To enjoy life more, embrace anticipation

- Holly Burns

IT'S WORTH WAITING FOR

ALLE PIERCE KNOWS how to plan a holiday. A few months ahead of time, she "goes on a crazy Google spree," constructing a spreadsheet of what she wants to do and see. She scrutinises the menus of restaurants she is planning to visit. She uses a picture of the destination as her phone's locked screen image and downloads a countdown app.

“What’s so exciting about a trip is the anticipation before it,” says Pierce, founder of a luxury travel company called Gals Abroad Getaways, which plans group trips for women. Experts say she is probably right. Numerous studies suggest that having something to look forward to boosts your mood and lowers your stress.

“Imagining good things ahead of us makes us feel better in the current moment,” says Simon A Rego, chief psychologist at Montefiore Medical Centre and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. “It can increase motivation, optimism and patience, and decrease irritability.”

Of course we sadly can’t just book a flight every time we need a little cheering up or feel low. But there are ways to harness and incorporate the power of anticipation into your everyday life.

GET EXCITED ABOUT A LOT OF LITTLE THINGS

Anticipating small, delightful experiences can be just as enjoyable as looking forward to one big event, explains Carrie L Wyland, a social psychologist at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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