TSW Short: How to Find Your Work Life Balance this Summer

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July 3rd to August 11th or the official dog days of summer.

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And a period of time in which the sun occupies the same

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region of the sky as serious.

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The brightest star visible from any part of earth.

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Sirius also known as the dog star.

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It was part of the constellation canis major, the greater dog, which is where

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the term dog days of summer comes from.

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And you thought it was due to the heat.

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Welcome to episode 1 54 of this shit works, a podcast dedicated to all

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things, networking, relationship building and business development.

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I'm your host, Julie Brown speaker, author and networking coach and

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on today's this shit works short.

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I am discussing how to find work-life balance, not just during the dog

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days of summer, but all summer long.

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Every summer, I vow to take more time off during the summer to relax and

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enjoy the 12 short weeks of summer that we get here in the Northeast.

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And every year I seem to fail miserably at it, but not this year.

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This is my summer of slowing down.

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Well sort of actually, it's more like my August of slowing down really.

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As I'm traveling most of July.

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Which is not ideal, and frankly is going to exhaust me, which is one

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of the reasons why I'm producing.

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These shorter episodes for the month of July.

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My actually may, it may go into August as well because come home, I

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guess it's officially slow the fuck down and enjoy the summertime for me.

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Not that I won't be working, I will be, but I'll be working a hundred

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percent from my vacation house, wearing shorts and a tank top all month long

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and taking my lunch breaks at the.

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Beach.

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What I will be doing is very similar to advice that I read in a recent

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entrepreneur magazine article titled seven surefire ways to find

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work-life balance this summer.

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And I'm going to share the tips with you.

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Um, now I'm also going to put a link to the entire article in the show

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notes so that you can read it in its entirety, where they expand upon each

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of these seven ways in greater detail.

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But for now, here they are.

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One work outside.

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Hop on free wifi somewhere and soak up a couple hours of sun while you work.

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Or if your wifi goes outside and you have an outdoor space

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at your home work outside.

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Two.

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Try a workation check into a hotel or resort so you can enjoy all the amenities

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of the pool spa, et cetera, while you work or after your work is done.

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I've done this while traveling before I've booked an extra JJ.

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So I could work from the hotel roof, deck pools, being a cocktail and returning

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emails before I fly home the next day.

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Three.

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Enjoy a fun read, put down the business books and pick up a beach, read a

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thriller, a romance novel who cares.

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Just take your mind out of business for a little while each day.

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For.

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Get creative, meaning spend time doing something that flexes your

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creative muscles, paint, dance sing, take a pottery class, do something

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that you enjoyed as doing as a kid.

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For me during the month of August, it's going to be getting up in the morning

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and going paddleboarding before the water is too busy with boats and whatnot.

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Five.

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Schedule your emails review and respond to emails at a specific time each

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day, don't constantly be checking and responding to emails, which is a

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hundred percent effecting your attention and ability to focus on the other

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shit that you should be working on.

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I really do like this tip.

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Six.

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DIY happy hour.

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It's not what you think.

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Although, making a cocktail for yourself can be, can be nice too.

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They mean a different kind of happy art, meaning schedule one

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hour for yourself after work, to do something you really like.

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Like go to yoga, check out a movie, meet up with a friend or

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walk something different than the typical cocktails at five.

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And seven.

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Unplug shut it all down.

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Find an hour or a day, if you can manage to just shut it all down and unplug

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everything electronic from your life, put that out of office on and really mean it.

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I remember a couple of years ago for 4th of July weekend, I put my phone

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in a drawer and I left it there.

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I never checked in on it.

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And you know what?

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It was fucking amazing.

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I was so less stressed.

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And, you know, somehow people still found me, like they popped over my house

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instead of texting me, which was awesome.

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Try it just for an hour or a half day put it in drawer and don't look at it

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and don't get notifications push to your watch and see how much more awesome you

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feel at the end of all of those times that you do it So That's it Seven tips

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to help you find work-life balance this summer or whatever's left Of It All right

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friends that's all for this week because this is a, this shit works short there's

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and until next week Cheers guys enjoy i hope you're enjoying the summer