Have you ever heard of having theme days? It's this idea that you choose different themes to focus on

for different days and it helps you batch things or just simply not switch back and forth

mentally between tasks so much. I have found them very helpful and I wanted to share a few

different ways to approach creating your own theme days throughout your week, or even

breaking them down into theme hours to maximize productivity and enjoyment, aka maximizing

your work and your play.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 168.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well,

which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

Let's dive in.

I first heard about the idea of theme days for my friend Emily P. Freeman on episode 73 of her podcast, The Next Right Thing,

podcast. She broke down how she had five days of work each week and how she devoted every

day to a different theme. And she has different aspects of her business that she would focus on.

So one day was her podcast day, another was her book writing day, another was focusing on the

membership that she runs.

And when I first listened to this episode, I was still running Nancy Harry photography full

on.

I was leading my team meetings, shooting weddings, had lots of photos shoots at night.

It helped me implement this theme day idea, the three or four days a week that I was working at the time.

And it was so helpful. It helped me just compartmentalize my mind about my work. So I had an admin day

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