It's almost summer (at the time of publication) and for my family that means ROAD TRIP!

I love scanning the scenery, but also feel like to occupy my time while I'm the passenger. So in today's episode, I'm sharing with you my top 10 ways to keep yourself productive in your business and entertained while on the road.

These tips will help you declutter your digital life, brainstorm content ideas, and even plan the future of your business.

If you have a summer roadtrip planned, give one of these ideas a try!

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Hi.

Hello, how are you?

Welcome to the Mamas Making More Podcast.

I have a fun episode for today.

Because I want to talk about summer vacation.

We are entering May at the time of this recording.

And to me, that it just a signifies the kids school winding down,

and summer vacation approaching.

And what I want to talk about today is road trips.

I don't know about you, but my family, we generally take a pretty

long road trip every summer.

And I'm usually the passenger.

My husband is a driver.

He likes to just zone out with his music.

I have no shame in the fact that I let my kids zone out on whatever

they're doing on their phones, devices.

They get to put their headphones on, they're not arguing.

They're just like hand over fist putting snacks and junk in their faces.

But that's totally fine with me.

I always joke with them that when we are going through an area that's

like scenic or something unique, and I want them to pay attention to it.

I'm like, okay.

You know, headphones off, let's look at these great United States

and they always roll their eyes, but they do love it as well.

The thing about road trips for me though, as much as I liked just kind of zoning out

and looking at the scenery, I'm just not a person who does really well doing nothing.

I'm constantly feeling like I should be doing something while we are

driving in these great United States.

So I want to share with you, I have my top 10 ways of being productive while

you're a passenger in a road trip.

Now feel free if you are someone who likes to just zone out not be, you

know, not do something like this.

I'm not judging you, that is totally fine.

But if you kind of have that personality where you feel like you need to keep

yourself busy and you don't want to just sit there, twiddling your thumbs while

you're watching the great scenery, these are 10 ideas where you can be productive

and get some stuff done on your business, and, occupy your time a little bit.

So.

I'm just going to jump right in.

Most of the 10 tips that I have do require some sort of cell signal and your phone.

I suppose you could do it on a tablet.

Actually doing it on a tablet would probably save my eyes a lot.

There are a couple that are just, you know, notebook type of thing.

So.

Anyways, just wanted to give you that little brief caveat.

So number one is to do a digital declutter of your email inbox.

I know I'm totally guilty of getting really lazy and not deleting

things out of my email inbox.

And then, you know, not having an inbox zero, which is always

like a great goal to have.

So you can really go through those.

You can delete them, you can put them in folders.

You can just spend some time organizing and see if you can get

close to that email inbox zero.

It's a great feeling for me.

Maybe it is for you, but really just to go through and do a lot of

deleting of unneeded emails is a great way to spend some time there.

Number two, delete your unneeded photos off your phone.

I I'm not even going to tell you how many photos that I have on my phone right now.

It is an embarrassing number.

It is in the five figures.

But, that's me.

I definitely should do this on a road trip, whatever road trip

we have coming up this summer.

A lot of it is just screenshots.

A lot of it is things that videos that I've taken that I don't need

anymore, duplicates, whatever.

So just going through and really purging it.

It doesn't take a lot of brain space to do that.

It's kind of mindless.

You could pick it up as you go.

You can stop doing it and look out at your road trip scenery.

. And you can free up that space on your phone and just pair down the number

of photos that are on your phone for whatever you're going to be doing.

If you're going to be offloading all of them and organizing them in some sort

of system, it's just a great thing to mindlessly do while you're on a road trip.

My number three tip is to send an email to some of your clients or your super fans.

I don't know about you, I know as a kid, I really enjoyed getting actual

mail and now I get so many emails in my inbox that are just impersonal

and part of subscription lists.

And that's fine.

That's great.

But it's really rare that I get an actual individual email to me.

That's, you know, in my business inbox, especially.

So just think about who are some clients that you were really thankful for, or some

collaborators that you're really thankful for anybody in your life, in your business

that's just been really supportive of you.

Just send them an email and tell them it's the perfect time to just, it doesn't

have to be long involved, whatever, just say like, Hey, I'm just thinking of you.

I always appreciate your support.

Hope you're having a great summer.

Something as simple as that could mean the world to the

person who's receiving that email.

The number four tip I have when you're on a road trip is to sort

through, especially your Facebook and your Instagram saved posts.

I will go through when I'm scrolling and I'll save posts because maybe

it's something that I want to look into later, or I want to remember

something about it, or maybe it's a social media post that I really like and

I'd like to do something similar, not copy, but use as kind of a springboard

or, maybe they've shared a tip , from Canva or a tip for Instagram stories.

So different things.

I do that, but then I don't sort through them and I don't go through them again.

And I don't delete the ones I don't need anymore.

And I tend to not organize them into folders so that I know what it is.

What I want to go back and look for them.

So another great thing to kind of just mindlessly do is look at something and,

oh, is this a tip that you still need?

Or is this a tip that you're, , already know about and you don't need that.

So just really sorting through those.

So it's not messy and you know, it can give you some great ideas

that maybe you forgot about.

All right.

Number five is to brainstorm your content ideas.

This can be on your phones notes app.

This can be on good old paper.

However you want to brainstorm it, but just really dump any of those

content ideas that you have out there.

Anything that you've been thinking about anything.

They just want to get down on paper or that app, just so you can remember

what it is when you go back and you're at your desk and you need some

of those content ideas, you'll have this whole bank, you're essentially

creating a bank of ideas while you're sitting there on your road trip.

Number six is a similar idea.

And that is to outline ideas for offers that you want to have, whether it's

in the next quarter, the next year, whatever the timeframe is, any sort

of ideas again on your phone app or a phone notes app or on a piece of paper.

Just really outlined the ideas of what offers you might potentially be

having to launch in the near future.

Anything just no judgment, just writing it out, whether it's something that you

actually do or not just getting those all down on paper again, after, when you're

back in your office in that actual work mode where you're super activated,

then you can go back through those and see, what is something that's coming

up that you're going to launch soon?

What's something that you're going to put on your back burner.

It's just great to have those ideas organized and in a specific place.

Now number seven is kind of a fun one and it can be business

related or personal related.

Go through and add any books that you want to read.

If you're anything like me, I love reading books.

I love reading fiction.

I love reading biographies and I love reading business type of

books, the inspirational, the mindset, personal development.

And a lot of times I will just spend some time researching what's out there.

Who's written something lately.

So you can spend a little time just scrolling through something

like Amazon or Goodreads, wherever it is that you get ideas for books.

And just flag some that you think you might want to read throughout

the summer or the year to come.

Another good place to find these is if you follow like bookstagramers on Instagram,

that's always fun too, to see what other people are reading and enjoying.

So just of create a list.

Like I said, it could be your personal list, your business list, both of them

just kind of get that down so that you do have some books to be looking forward to.

Number eight is to do some rough outlining of the future of your business.

Not like the 10-year future, but the near future, the next couple of

quarters, maybe the next calendar year.

What are some things that you want to launch?

What are some themes that you want to focus on?

If you have monthly themes in your business, what are some of

the themes that are coming up?

Are you going to have any flash sales?

Just outline what's coming up and just don't let yourself feel

like you have to be tied to it.

Just again, get it down on paper.

And when you're back in your office, when you're out of vacation mode, you can pull

it out and you can start calendaring.

Some of those things that you came up with.

Number nine is to watch some of those online courses.

Maybe you have an online course that you just watched through real fast

and you didn't really take notes and you were like, I need to come back to

this and really spend some time on it.

You could totally watch a course like that.

Maybe you have a few courses that you haven't watched that

are on your to be watched list.

And it's the perfect time to just put in your earbuds and watch some of those

online courses, take some notes on them.

And just get caught up on those things that you've been wanting to

learn about, but really didn't feel like you had the time to do when you

were in your office or sitting at your desk or whatever the reason is.

It's just a great opportunity.

I know that not only on road trips, but often when we travel for one of

my son, he has a travel soccer team.

When we're traveling longer times to go to some of his games, I'll definitely

pop in the earbuds and listen to some online courses it just really

gets those creative juices flowing.

And I love to learn.

If you love to learn, this is a great time to watch some of those courses.

My number 10 is to binge your favorite podcasts.

This is just such a classic road trip thing.

You can listen to multiple episodes of the same podcast.

You can like skip around things that you want to to catch up on, or, maybe

you want everyone to be together on that road trip for a little bit.

So maybe find a family podcast that you all enjoy and you

can listen to it all together.

Okay.

So that's a wrap on my 10 tips for things that you can do to feel a little bit more

productive while you're on a road trip.

I would love to know if any of these are ideas that you're going to

incorporate into your summer travel plans, or if you have something

that I didn't mention, send me a DM.

I am on Instagram @melyssamunday, or @mamasmakingmore.

Let me know what I should add to this list.

And maybe it's something that I'll add into rotation when

I'm on one of my road trips.

Okay.

I hope this gave you some inspiration to be a little bit more productive

on your road trip this summer.

And that's all I have for this episode.