Embracing Your Seasons

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Hey, welcome back to the confident money with Caitlin Magnuson.

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We are continuing this little, I'm going to call it an intermission season.

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And this is really where I'm talking through things that I've learned as

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a business owner over the past year.

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And part of that is because there's a seasonality to my business.

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Right.

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And that's actually what I want to talk about today.

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Not just in my business, but in my life, personal relationships, whether it's.

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Menstrual cycles, everything that goes along and I get really reflective

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kind of around, you know, the made June, July time in non pandemic years

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when tax deadlines are not extended.

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The first part of may is when I have my birthday.

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It's when the hectic time from tax season feels like it's a little bit

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in the rear view mirror, things are caught up that may have been delayed,

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that weren't time sensitive and.

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The season is really starting to, or the seasons have really started

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to change outside weather-wise.

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And that means that my husband, who bless him is inside during most of the winter,

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outside of doing all the snow maintenance and anything else, he handles most of

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the cooking and the animals and kind of keeping our household running, not kind of

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keeping our household running during the winter while I have a busier work season.

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I don't think I cooked a single breakfast for myself for maybe.

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From February through the first part of may.

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And like I said, with that comes a lot of reflection.

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And so for me, when things start to slow down, when I have more mental

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bandwidth, I end up reflecting on things like I'm doing today in this episode.

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And realizing that for me, the more that I embrace the seasonality.

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And the cycles that come and go in my life.

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And the more I try to live within those instead of fighting against

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them, the happier that I am.

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So for me, those seasons can kind of vary that may look like I have kind of a busy,

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tired, exhausted season for just going to call it that from February through April.

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Or we could even say January through April, Then I come into a period of

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rest and play and joy and lightness, and then a period of productivity and

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the early fall and then back into busy.

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And so for me, embracing these cycles, which also happened

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to fall in line with our.

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I feel really good for me.

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So I know a lot of us maybe that are business owners or that work corporate.

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I noticed this when I was in corporate as well, but I think a lot of us feel like

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we should ignore those changes, right.

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You know, maybe your business isn't seasonal, but maybe you still have

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energy changes throughout the year and acknowledging those and noting those and

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working with them is really important.

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So for me in the winter time, in that busy season, I probably work five to seven

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days a week and a little bit longer day.

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And I probably start sometime around eight or nine.

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I work till sometime between six and seven and I take normally two to three, one to

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two hour breaks during the day in between.

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So I work in chunks.

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I don't set a timer a lot of times.

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I I just sit down, I get done what I needed to get done.

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I take a break to go eat, to go walk, to go work out, to go do

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absolutely nothing sometimes.

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And that works for me because I have more things that have to get done.

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And so for me breaking my work week and my work day up,

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like that works better for me.

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And then normally at least a couple of times a month, I try to take an

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entire weekend off that's because I don't want to work a 12 hour day solid.

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I don't think that's realistic.

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I don't enjoy doing that.

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And I don't think that it provides the best quality of work for our clients.

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So what that looks like when we start to come into the season that we're

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in right now, that season of ease and play is there's a little bit of

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catch up, of course, but for the most part, it's very little weekend working

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sometimes no weekend working for me.

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And it's maybe five hours a day during the work.

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Instead, I'm outside.

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I am gardening.

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I am caring for the animals.

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I am walking.

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I am getting sunshine.

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I'm taking over a lot of the household chores because we live on acreage and

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there's maintenance that comes with our property that my husband goes to do.

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So there's a divvying up for us of household chores, you know,

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redistribution of responsibilities based on who has capacity.

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And that's what happens during the majority of the summer and those workdays.

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I can take an entire day off in June and July and August.

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I can take a Tuesday off.

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I can take a Thursday off.

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I can take a couple of days in a row off, no big deal.

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And we're getting to the point where I could take longer than that off,

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but there's just so much more flow.

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So much more E.

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Projects are caught up, you know, we do.

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That's when we do all of our fun things, right.

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That's when we create a lot of content, we try to get ahead on blogs.

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We have a lot more creative energy as a team.

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And as myself available to us to tap into, it's less of the doing, doing, doing to-do

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list and more of the, where can we create?

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Where can we innovate?

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Where can we inspire and have fun?

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And like what comes up when we're out playing?

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Because all of us, I think, as a collective, I know myself specifically

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have some of our best ideas when we take a nap, when we start.

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Speaking of, I don't know if this helps anyone here, but one of my goals for the

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month of may through September is to see if I can nap at least 50% of the days.

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I'm not quite on track I'm at about a quarter of the days, but I have

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found that in the late afternoons with these days being so much longer, I'm

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sleeping less at night and a nap between three and four 30 is just sublime.

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So for anyone that can highly recommended, I do not really nap in the winter or

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early spring at all, but this time of year, when the days are so long, it is

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wake up, go about my day, do my things.

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So again, taking that drop in, I'm going to say deadlines in overflow, work in

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may, June, July, August, and using that time a to rest recuperate, to nourish.

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Myself, both physically and mentally and allow our team to do the same, but

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it also is my time where I innovate and I become even more inspired.

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And I prioritize not being on the computer all the time, which is ironic.

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Cause I'm recording this on the computer right now, but my time is limited on here.

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I get on, I work in bursts.

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I'm done for the day or I'm, you know, go, I'll do it in the morning and then

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I'll go do all my outside stuff and then we'll come back in the heat of.

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Work a little bit on the computer move forward.

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Like we have things to be doing.

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We have stuff to be enjoying and I love it.

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And our clients are doing the same.

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And then that lets me roll into September and September for me is when

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I feel things really start to pick up.

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I think a lot of us, you know, you have kids, your kids are going back to school.

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We're starting to feel kind of the change of the seasons.

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Fall is approaching for some of us, again, depending on where you at.

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And you're starting to feel that winding down energy, or at least I feel it

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as a winding down energy, we're maybe getting our ducks in a row for clients,

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for year-end we're doing anything that we can to prepare for tax season.

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We're onboarding new clients because without fail September

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and October are two of our biggest ones for bringing clients on.

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Because again, I think people are in.

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Get things prepared, do things Headspace, especially with just how, you know,

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our schedule falls with back to school being in September or even August.

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That's what everyone's kind of in gear, right?

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You're gearing up for year end.

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You're gearing up for black Friday.

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You're gearing up for whatever it is and taxes, frankly, start to become

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something that's on the top of your mind.

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So for us and for myself, September is when.

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We're not crazy busy, but we're still picking up.

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We're picking up steam.

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We're doing all the things that we can.

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It's a little bit less creating, a little bit less innovating, a little

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bit more you're doing, but also balanced out by trips by quarterly

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estimated taxes by vacations, by, you know, having some balance there.

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I would say it's a really equal balance of play and work as opposed to the season

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before of ease in play, where I'm going to say it's a little bit more play with.

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And that prepares us to then roll back into that busy season where it's

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more work having to prioritize breaks, needing to take care of ourselves.

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And for me, during that busy season, I order a lot of meal kits.

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my husband is great at following instructions for things like

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that, but it makes it really easy to put meal kits on a substance.

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They show up.

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He does the cooking.

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We're both then fed we're nourished.

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We have a variety of food that we're eating.

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We're not eating the same thing over and over again, which is something

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that I'll absolutely fall into.

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I will eat waffles for dinner for days if I don't have another

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option and well, that's great.

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And I love breakfast or dinner.

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It's not sustainable for me.

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It doesn't make me feel energized.

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Um, for me, it's also something that.

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I have noticed I don't drink nearly as much, especially I don't drink

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hardly at all during our busy season and really sparingly the rest of the

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year because it's, it keeps coming down for me personally, to feeling

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energized and feeling like I can rest and feeling like I can sleep.

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And so I've become a lot more selective with, you know, when I'm

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choosing to consume alcohol and realizing that, you know, this is

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something that I'm doing, just because I feel like I need it to relax.

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Or numb out or is this something where Nope, I felt my feelings.

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I really want an amazing strawberry freckled cider.

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Those for me come from two really different places.

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And it used to be something that I was absolutely guilty, especially

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during busy season of numbing out and having two or three drinks so that

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I could ignore the stress ignore.

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It was really bad when I was working in a corporate position, as well as running my.

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And being able to take that pause and be more cognizant

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of why I'm making decisions.

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And I find that with the computer, right?

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If I'm getting on check a Voxer or check Instagram or check slack,

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I think so many of us do this.

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Why, why are you doing that?

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Do you need to be doing it right now?

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Did you just check it 20 minutes ago or an hour ago?

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Do you have a business set up where you need to be responding on an hourly basis?

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If you don't.

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Can you go take a break?

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Can you close your computer?

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Can you set some boundaries?

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Can you update clients?

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Hey clients in this season, we're here.

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We're checking in.

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Someone's available every day, but we're also enjoying the

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shit out of our lives right now.

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Like there's a time and there's a place.

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And February through April, it's all hands on deck.

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The rest of the year in particular, the summer, I encourage everyone on our

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team, including myself to take a break.

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Use your vacation time.

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I don't expect full-time hours during this time of year, because a lot of

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us work more than full-time hours.

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Not that it's required.

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You don't have to be full-time to be productive, but there's a lot to get done.

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And there's a lot less and a lot fewer stressful deadlines that have to be

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managed during the rest of the year.

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So wherever you can acknowledged the seasonality in your life, in

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your business, in your family, in whatever is coming about, even

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in your cycles for how you feel.

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And I noticed that for myself, And I either I've read some on

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it, but I noticed my energy levels change throughout the month.

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I have one week out of the month where I tend to be a lot more creative.

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I have one week where I'm really drained and I have two

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weeks where I'm just average.

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And I'm working to try and make sure I'm tracking those so I

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can plan my calls accordingly.

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If I'm doing calls, I don't really want to do any calls on

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the weeks that I'm creative.

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Those are my content creation.

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My podcast creation my blog topics like anything, you know,

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we're content, our course ideas.

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All of that is coming from me on those creative weeks.

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The fewer calls I can have the better to let that really flow.

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I want to be doing calls on the two middle weeks.

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Not the low energy week or I want to be doing as little as possible and just

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getting the things done that have to get done and not on that creative week.

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Those two other weeks for me are where it's at.

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And so finding that and acknowledging that and giving myself permission, I

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don't have to be available five days a week, every week of the month for calls.

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My business is not set up that way.

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It's not set up that way intentionally.

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Cause for me, while I love doing calls, they can be really draining for me.

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And so prioritizing when I do them, how I do them, is there someone else on the

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team that would be better to be doing them and planning our resources accordingly?

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And that's something that I look for in all of these seasons, right?

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I'm constantly assessing where could we be better allocating our resources

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on the team what are things that I'm doing that I don't need to be doing?

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What are things that someone on the team is really fucking good?

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That I'm not, or that maybe someone else isn't, or that maybe I didn't expect them

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to be doing that, but they're really good.

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And I've seen that they have a proclivity for it.

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Cool.

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Let's have a discussion.

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Let's talk about rearranging priorities, rearranging responsibilities, so

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that everyone on the team is able to perform to their best and have as

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much work satisfaction as possible because there, I think there's nothing

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better when it comes to work than.

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Being in your zone of genius and knowing that you kicked ass and you were

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given the tools to show up to do that.

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So did you, were you empowered to do the things that you love to do that you

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want to learn where you empowered, where you challenged, where you stimulated?

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And there's a really good balance between being bored, being stimulated

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and being overwhelmed or overworked.

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And so constantly finding that back.

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Within our team within ourselves, as our clients change and evolve and grow as

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our team changes and evolves and grows.

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We're constantly rearranging.

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I look at that as a seasonality or a cycle of sorts, right?

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We bring on clients, clients may have new needs.

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We may evolve.

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We may change what our staffing looks like to meet those needs.

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We then, you know, reshuffle responsibilities accordingly.

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And.

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It might, we might realize that, oh, we have a hole.

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We have a gap in knowledge here.

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Do we need to be hiring this?

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Someone else wants to learn this.

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Like, who's feeling like this is a shit yeah.

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Thing for them.

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Is it not a shit thing?

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Cool.

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Can someone else do it or is it just kind of a task?

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Can we divide it up between us so that not like we don't all

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have to do only the crappy stuff.

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And what I did recently is I had everyone rank their top seven to 10

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responsibilities that they do regular.

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In order from, I love this too.

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I don't love this.

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And to list out anything they were wanting to learn or anything, they

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were wanting to step more fully into in their role this year.

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And for me, that was really helpful because it lets me go, okay, I think

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I know where everyone falls in what they like to do, what they're good at.

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But there were a few that were like, oh, you really liked doing XYZ.

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I didn't know that it wasn't something you were doing regular.

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Let's see how we can work that into what you're doing.

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And let's see.

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And I think this is important if we're adding 10 hours of work to someone's

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plate, let's see what we can take off of their plate, because we're

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not all about just adding and adding and adding and adding it's adding

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and substituting it's moving around.

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It's finagling the is so that everyone feels like they have a challenging

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workload without being overwhelmed.

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And when I say challenging, I mean like intellectually stimulating,

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that's always the goal, right?

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Cause there's a lot of repetition in our field and accounting and bookkeeping.

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There's a lot of novelty as well.

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Where can we be finding the happy medium?

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And some people want a little bit more of the boring and some people want a

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little bit more than novelty, but most people want some combination of the.

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And that's, I've been really interested to see how that changes within our

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team, within myself, especially as I continue to step back into a founder

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role into a creative role and be less and less than the day to day.

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It's really interesting to me to see who rises up into leadership roles

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that I wouldn't have expected to see who really loves doing the tech

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stuff, that they may not have been hired for and to plan our resources.

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Of course.

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So

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there's not a correct takeaway, except for the fact that I noticed a really

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big difference in my personal and my professional life, when I am able to

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acknowledge the seasonality and to plan accordingly, like having those meal

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kits come in like rearranging household chores, duties, responsibilities,

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et cetera, during my busy time, like prioritizing play and train and sunshine

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time and time spent in my garden.

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All of those come with a seasonality.

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And by the end of.

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I'm burnt out on the sun.

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I'm burnt out on being outside all the time and playing in the water.

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Those things that I'm loving.

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And so like just rolling in right now by the time it's September.

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That's something that I'm looking forward to slowing down.

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I'm looking forward to being outside less.

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I'm looking forward to snow and more sleep and darker days.

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And that gets to be okay.

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We get to look forward.

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We get to enjoy the season we're in of life of weather of business and appreciate

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it while also being ready for that next seasonal change when it comes through.

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And for me, Embracing that and understanding that it's coming.

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Right?

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Cause sometimes I'm, I'm just, I'm tired or like, oh, I'm

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really ready to get outside.

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I get antsy, you know, by the time it's may or the end of April, I

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am done, I am done with taxes.

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I am done with deadlines and I am ready to just take a break.

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And so acknowledging that, telling myself, Hey, I know this is coming.

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Hey, I know that my schedule changes and communicating it with clients and

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with the team makes it so much easier to run my business, to live a life

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that feels full, that feels exciting.

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And that feels nourishing.

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I would love to hear from you aware, are you noticing or implementing cyclical

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or seasonal changes in your life or your business, and have you found that

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it has helped you feel like you are.

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Less exhausted, more aligned and more capable because it certainly has for me,