87: Fight That Summertime Sadness

Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In normal times, summer months at work have a different energy than the rest of the year. But with most people still working at home, how do you acknowledge the change and stay motivated? Today I’m sharing some tricks that have been working for me. And, I answer more of your questions on managing a team remotely and keeping businesses afloat. Got a question? I’m here to help. Call me at 888-Barbara or tweet me @barbaracorcoran and I just might answer on a future episode - or even call you up to discuss live. Subscribe to Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. This episode of Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran is presented by Paycom (http://www.paycom.com).

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Barbara Corker, and you are now tuned in to business unusual, and everything
0:07.2	you ever learned about business, throw it out the window.
0:09.5	I'm going to tell you the real deal, listening.
0:12.2	Today I'm going to answer all your burning questions about work, life,
0:16.2	starting a company, getting on track and much, much more. Be sure to call into the business
0:21.6	unusual hotline with your question at 888 Barbara.
0:25.8	That's 888 B-A-R-B-A-R-A. But first...
0:37.0	Hey guys, I've been thinking about a few things. I've been having a hard time with summer motivation.
0:40.0	From the emails and texts I'm getting from family and friends, I think everybody is having a hard time with the summer.
0:47.0	Usually that's the time we're all feeling gleeful and happy and can't wait, finally, finally this but everybody's stressed okay so I've been
0:56.2	worried about that and thinking about that I thought I'd share a few things that are helping me
1:01.4	rather than expecting a full on-court change, you know, oh, it's going to be so different, I've decided to kind of take it easy and not expect so much of a change, kind of work into the summer nice and slow. I've gotten my head
1:15.7	around the fact that what makes me feel good at home or at work is when I'm working on
1:20.8	something to improve myself, some kind of skill set, something I haven't done before,
1:26.0	but to give me micro-focuses that make me feel like I'm making
1:30.1	a little headway.
1:30.7	I'm going to continue that right through the summer. I'm just not going to change it so much. I'm not going to be expecting some big difference, right? I think it's a time to still work on improving yourself, learning a new skill, or even just changing a view going outside looking at things
1:45.2	differently what if you have to change up because somehow that makes the biggest
1:49.5	difference a little change I change it up come back and work myself, or work on a skill, work on my business,
1:56.3	and then all of a sudden the importance of summer being so different and amazing is less so.
2:02.2	You know, I just feel better about the whole thing. And then last I keep
2:06.0	reminding myself constantly there's better times ahead. They're just going to creep in a little bit
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