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Think about three things you really appreciated about a recent lunch date with a friend.\u00a0 For me, my list might include: trying a new restaurant, sharing frustrations about our doctors, and making plans for another get together later this month.<\/p>\n

Really feel into this state of appreciation and follow up by taking responsibility for making two other lunch dates, with the same person or with another friend. How do you feel about making an action plan out of your reflection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Think about three things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deeper","category-tip"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNot Your Mother's Lunch Date – No Small Thing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/not-your-mothers-lunch-date\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not Your Mother's Lunch Date – No Small 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