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Oct 22Liked by Pauline

Just made my own dopamine menu as well - you should share on LinkedIn too! So fun :)

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Aww wonderful Gabbi. I'd love to see it. Let me know if you want to get designed :) I've been receiving a few and waiting for another one to come, so I'll share them together on LinkedIn πŸŽ† πŸŽ† πŸŽ† PS: I've started the Trauma Of Money (Cohort 11) and I'm feeling: 🀯 - But in the very good way!

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Oct 11Liked by Pauline

My dopamine menu:

Breakfast

- listening to someone else showering or cleaning the kitchen from bed

- remembering that I laid out my outfit the night before

- going for a run

Lunch

- making a joke at work that someone laughs at

- getting a message from my husband randomly during the day

Dinner

- when I cook a meal from scratch and everyone eats it

- when my daughter sings at the dinner table

Dessert:

- a bowl of granola and milk

- reading until I go cross eyed

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Love this list Gina (particularly "listening to someone else cleaning the kitchen from bed"...)

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People scroll shopping apps FOR FUN????

Spending money is not fun. It is torture.

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Haha they do Michelle! :) Some are addicted to shopping apps, some to secondhand shopping apps. There's even a new generation of shopping apps popping up... designed to counter these behavioral patterns and help us shop less... We all have our "drug of choice".

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I love your dopamine menu!

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Thank you, Keris - What's in yours? <3

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Coffee in bed in the morning. Gym with my 15yo. Cinema with my 20yo. Sunset swimming in Mallorca. Noodles the foster cat. A walk with a podcast. Weekends alone. Only Murders in the Building. β€œDinner with friends in cities where none of us lives” - Nora Ephron. Books! My new red boots. All my WhatsApp group chats. When my own writing makes me laugh. The ever-changing trees in front of our flat. Bumping into a fox late at night. A perfect playlist.

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Love this list Keris! Giggled at "when my own writing makes me laugh" - My husband always makes fun at me for how hard I laugh at my own jokes. Never changing this!

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If we won’t laugh at them, who will? πŸ˜‚

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