How to Take Advantage of the Best Thing about Summertime: TIME: 6 Tips for Using Summer “Time” to Reach Your Goals
If you feel like time has been slipping through your fingers, you aren’t alone! While summertime boasts incredible opportunities, we find that summer planning is what truly helps us take advantage of the change of pace. Here are 6 ways to value your time, reach your goals, and make memories worth sharing!
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1. Make Time for Awe and Wonder!
Give yourself permission to plan fun, celebrate the people you love, and go on adventures. Our email boxes will never stop filling up, but our kids do grow up and our opportunities to savor the moments pass daily.
Science even reveals that taking time to relish the awe inspiring world around us actually increases our ability to pull ourselves out of the daily treadmill and re-evaluate what matters. The Annals of the New York Academies of Sciences dubs the impact of wonder on the human brain a “little earthquake of the mind” and according to the Washington Post, the process of experiencing wonder decreases stress and increases personal satisfaction and well being – all while triggering our compassion for others and stimulating the curiosity and creativity with which we engage in our world.
This is why the first step to owning our time is to make time for the people and moments that fill our lives with wonder!
2. Do a Summer SWOT Analysis with Your Family or Community
This might go without saying, but the opportunity to connect with your people, receive valuable insight, and enlist support from your community is invaluable. It can also serve a dual purpose to celebrate past success, while brainstorming solutions for emerging challenges.
According the Psychology Today, the incredible gift of listening builds trust and shapes both personal and workplace relationships. It is foundational to any community and we love using the summer to lay the groundwork for powerful teamwork!
3. Plan Action Steps Toward Your Goals
Working culture today boasts an epidemic of busyness for individuals and organizations, but while the daily treadmill takes our time, it rarely brings us closer to important goals. To break this cycle, we recommend becoming crystal clear on your goals. Then, take the summer to plan bite sized steps and lay them across the calendar year. This simple proactive step gets you started, keeps things manageable, and provides clarity for others to team up with you!
Looking for resources to help you reach your goals? We love the resources from goal guru, Jon Acuff books and podcast: https://jonacuff.com/
For school leaders, School Connect has a new year-round training and coaching program that walks school leaders through goal setting, tracking and progress reporting!
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