Each year the summer seems to go by faster and faster. As a kid it was easy to prioritize fun during the summer - it’s what summer was for! As adults we need to learn to prioritize fun as well. Listen in for 7 tips to help you balance your work and life this summer. 

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

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

region of the sky as serious.

The brightest star visible from any part of earth.

Sirius also known as the dog star.

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

the term dog days of summer comes from.

And you thought it was due to the heat.

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

things, networking, relationship building and business development.

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

on today's this shit works short.

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

days of summer, but all summer long.

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

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

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

This is my summer of slowing down.

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

As I'm traveling most of July.

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

of the reasons why I'm producing.

These shorter episodes for the month of July.

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

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

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

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

and taking my lunch breaks at the.

Beach.

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

entrepreneur magazine article titled seven surefire ways to find

work-life balance this summer.

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

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

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

of these seven ways in greater detail.

But for now, here they are.

One work outside.

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

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

at your home work outside.

Two.

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

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

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

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

emails before I fly home the next day.

Three.

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

thriller, a romance novel who cares.

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

For.

Get creative, meaning spend time doing something that flexes your

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

that you enjoyed as doing as a kid.

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

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

Five.

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

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

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

shit that you should be working on.

I really do like this tip.

Six.

DIY happy hour.

It's not what you think.

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

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

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

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

walk something different than the typical cocktails at five.

And seven.

Unplug shut it all down.

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

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

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

in a drawer and I left it there.

I never checked in on it.

And you know what?

It was fucking amazing.

I was so less stressed.

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

instead of texting me, which was awesome.

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

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

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

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

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