Sizzling Summer! What You Must Do.

The other day, I caught myself exclaiming, OMG it is the Fourth of July! I know I need to stop and recalibrate when the same hours everyone gets seems like I somehow get less of them. Am I spending time on the wrong things?  Am I  burning up my time with things that are not really helping me? Am I going, going, going and not even sure where my time is spent? Or, is my to do list filled with things that do not inspire, bring balance or vitality to my life? It is probably a combination of all that. Good news,the summer is not over and you can course correct.

At the beginning of the summer, I shared a Create the Best Summer Yet Worksheet to help you lay out a great summer. The purpose of the worksheet is to go through the exercise of stopping to take a few minutes to remember the things you like to do and inspire you to do a few of them this summer. I bet there would be something on your list that you forgot you even liked to do that would require very little effort to make it happen.  For example, I forgot how wonderful it was to eat dinner outside on the deck with a music playing and a glass of my favorite wine. I made a commitment to eat outside whenever possible. It is amazing what comes to you when Etta James is belting out 'At Last' while you enjoy a great meal and company...connection, passion and love.   Consider taking your office outside. If you can work from home, why not create an outside office that allows you to breathe fresh air, hear birds, see flowers and smell cut grass. I will bet your ideas will be clearer, more creative and more expansive.  

There are so many possibilities that surface with a commitment to time to refresh, relax and gain a new perspective. The return on that time is priceless.

So, it is July. What are you going to do with this one wonderful summer? What do you want to celebrate at the end of the summer? Give yourself permission to Create Your Best Summer Yet!

"You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older...The minute you tell yourself, 'Time is everything and I am going to make sure the time is used in the way I dreamed it should be used', then you got a whole different story." ~Diane Sawyer