Tips for managing your time during the Summer break

In today’s episode of the podcast I talk about the Summer break and how you can manage your time during this time, as well as put a plan together so you can rest a little! KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST Don’t let the little things get to youBatch your content as much as possibleWhat is the bare minimum you can do right now? What do you HAVE to do? Is there anything you can defer or delegate?Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t achieve something!Book some time offOffer calls with clients on the same days so you are set up and focused on doing thatWe often think we have to be flexible all the time – but if you give people less option they will make it workIs there anything you can move back to free up your time?Think about when you work – we don’t have to just work 9-5! Look at where you can fit a few hours in maybe before the kids are up or when they go to bed.All of this depends on you and your own situation – you have to make it work for you and remove the pressureOffer child swaps with a friend so you get some hours to work without the kidsExplain to your children they are lucky their mum/dad work from home and they don’t have to go anywhere elseYou could also explain to your children that you need to work and would really appreciate a couple of hours undisturbed so you can get something done and then you will have time to spend with themIf you have a team – can they do more?Make sure you have some time for you as well as your family!Don’t be hard on yourself – you are doing an amazing job THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE… Don’t feel guilty! We run our businesses and have busy, full lives, we can’t put our business on hold or our family on hold. We can only do as much as we can. HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN’T MISS An exciting event 01:28A plan for the Summer break 04:30Managing your time during the Summer 05:45 LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Listen to episode 200!Friend Zone to Authority Island Event Transcript belowHello and a really warm welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you doing? So last week was episode 200 little bit of a different one with me and my lovely husband. So you've not had chance to go and listen to that then please do go and do that. It's just a bit of a, like, ask me anything, some personal questions, some work questions, some funny questions. So, yeah, that was good fun, I enjoyed it. But like I said, something different for episode 200. Now time to get on with the next hundred episodes. So in this week's episode, it's going to be quite a quick one again, often with solo ones. If you're new to the podcast, when it comes to a solo episode, uh, sometimes it can be a little bit off the cuff and sometimes, you know, they can be really well planned, but more often, a little bit off the cuff. And this week, I want to talk about the fact of some holidays and the summer break and what we're going to do and how we manage. But before we talk about that. I want to tell you about an online event I'm doing. Now I'm very lucky that I get asked to do quite a lot of online events, which is great. And most of the time I'm not very organized enough to let you know on the podcast. But this time I made sure I was. So this event is called Friend Zone to Authority Island where sales and profits await. Now the dates are August the 17th to 19th. And it's basically 32 high achieving experts giving mini masterclasses, showing you how to position your business to standout. Attract the right clients, make money with products that run without you, no matter what state you're in or how long you've been doing it. Can you tell I'm reading this? I'm a nightmare reading on it. Anyway, this online event, like I said, it brings together all those experts. And if you're wondering whether this event is for you and whether you should check it out. If you're tired of working around the clock and not seeing any profit or income, and you're ready to get some step by step blueprints. And I know obviously a new now me, all my stuff is step-by-step. If you're tired of listening to gurus, I give you all the pieces of the puzzle because they need you to do other stuff. Then this is for you. And if you're tired of struggling to get started, attracting your dream clients in your niche and you're searching for that one piece of information, single strategy that will make an impact on your business. And you're ready to hear it. So, uh, it's really, really good for you. If those things are kind of resonating, so you can discover how you can easily stop being seen as a content creator and start being seen as the go-to expert in your niche. And I think like the Authority Island thing is really important because you've got to well, haven't got to be the authority or authority.It's just, you want people to see you that way. I won't be able to work with me who think she knows what she's talking about. So I think that's really important. So it's a really nice online event, this one. I'm going to put my link in the show notes. So if you want to check that out then wherever you're listening to this, you'll find the show notes below and the link will be there. So do go and check that out. Also, we're checking it out on my social media as well. So you might see it there. So there we go. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up about that online event. So this week let's talk about the summer holidays. Now, if you haven't got children, then don't panic. It doesn't mean that this isn't going to be prevalent to you or something you need to listen to. But I really think it's important for us to get together a strategy or some, make some commitments to ourselves about what we're going to do in the holidays. Now we're obviously in it, in the thick of it already, my daughter broke up a number of weeks ago. Now, you know, cause I'm really honest about the stuff I share my daughter with my ex-husband. So that immediately halves my holidays down, which is an absolute blessing. You don't have to say, I know it sounds awful. And I adore her and love her, but the idea that I get weeks where I get to focus, I know I am very lucky because of that. Uh, one of the upsides, sides of divorce. But obviously with the week she's here, I'm still juggling her and my stepson is here all the time. Dogs, family bla bla bla bla bla. So what are you going to do over these kind of six, eight weeks? Whatever it is that we've got left now. And even if you haven't got children who are off, it's summer. And we've been working our backsides off. I was talking about this the other day, being an online business. And I know most of you have really similar as in not that you're an online business, but I know most of you during the holiday, sorry, during the holidays during COVID, didn't take time off didn't necessarily have furlough, didn't necessarily have the time off that maybe some others did. Um, Sorry. I'm just a, do not disturb my computer as always. I always forget. And then you always hear a noise anyway. So lots of you have been working really, really hard. And summer generally is the time that we get to rest a little bit. And normally we get to go on holiday, but it's still very much in the air, depending on what part of the world you're in as to what holiday you can take, where you can go, that sort of thing. So I want us to look at like, what are we going to be doing over the next few weeks? Not only if we've got children. And, or other commitments, parents, siblings, people we have to care for. But what are we going to do to make sure that we manage these next few weeks? So I've got a couple of ideas for you. I had some really good ideas from my membership because I did a talk on this. We did a live on it to help them plan for the summer, and I got them to share their ideas. So one of the ideas, if you do have children, which I thought was really, really nice. One of my members said, "I'm not going to let the little things get to me." And I think that's really important. Now during the first lockdown and we had homeschooling, I, oh, I got myself into such a state. Like I was really conscious about what my daughter was doing with school. I was getting really crossed when she wasn't doing what I thought she should have been doing. We were constantly in loggerheads. We were constantly having conversations about, you know, not trying hard enough, do this, do that. It was horrible for both of us. So when it came to the second time of homeschooling, I just thought "You know what, I'm not going to be so hard on her or myself. I'm going to just let her crack on do what she needs to do. If she doesn't get it all done, then that's fine by me." Now, I'm not saying that's the most brilliant parenting tip in the world, but I'm just saying from my own and her mental health, I knew that I had to step back a bit. So actually, when this member said that she's, you know, going to let the small things kind of slide a bit, I think that's so right. I think when they're at home and you're trying to work and you're trying to do the things. I know for sure