Amazing how energy can be matched to the seasons…There’s an ease about summer, a sense that urgency is not required, that time is not supposed to be controlled. Re-connecting with the outdoors, letting our senses drift us along smoothly without hurry allows more lightness in everything we do.
Some of us take a break from work in the summer. I’ve felt more vibrant in using the summer days to begin with work tasks in the morning and using the rest of the day for me, my family and my health. The shift seems to be in recognizing that there are “things to get done” and that they somehow always do. Time management becomes more about letting go and trusting that the vision of what has to be accomplished will direct the allocation of time used. This is in stark contrast to how most try to achieve work-life harmony in the winter months where the endless tasks somehow over-ride any “vision” of what has to be achieved.
When I get in my car, or on my bike, or on my feet outdoors, I am always amazed by the amount of people I see engaged in their environment and not in their “heads”-they’re gardening, walking, playing sports, talking to neighbours, sitting on swings or chairs and they are most always smiling!
What are you doing this summer? How are you being more connected to each other and the world outside? How has your work shifted or has it at all? But most importantly, what feeling or vision can you maintain in all of this so that the summer “breeze” continues after Labour Day?
Happy summer and keep smiling!
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