AP 689: 3 Keys To Make This Summer the Best One EVER || how to turn your summer dreams into reality with practical pointers

About Progress

Cloud10

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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When you think about how quickly summer is coming, are you filled with excitement, dread, or a little bit of both? In this episode I share how I turned the summer of 2024 into an unforgettable season for my family. After learning from the challenges of past summers, particularly the tough summer the year before, I discovered the keys to creating an intentional, structured, and supported summer experience. Whether you have kids at home or not, you'll find these tips on setting clear goals, building flexible routines, and prioritizing self-care helpful for transforming your summer. Plus, get details on my upcoming workshop designed to help you craft your best summer ever. Tune in and start making your summer dreams a reality! Sign up as a Supporter to get access to our private, premium, ad-free podcast, More Personal. Episodes air each Friday! Leave a rating and review Follow About Progress on YOUTUBE! Book Launch Committee Free DSL Training Full Show Notes This episode is brought to you by goPure Beauty, get 25% off @goPure with code PROGRESS at https://www.goPurebeauty.com/PROGRESS #goPurepod; and by AirDoctor, use code MONICA at http://airdoctorpro.com/ for up to $300 off air purifiers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.
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0:31.2	Have you ever binge read a new favorite series,
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1:00.0	Going into the summer, one of the biggest things I did that may seem so weird because before I started to strategize and plot things and put things on a calendar, I actually got
1:05.3	clarity on how I wanted the summer to feel. And I got my kids input on this.
1:17.1	Hi, I'm Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about progress made practical.
1:33.6	Last summer was the best summer of our lives. I know that's a very bold statement. So when I say it, let me also encourage you to not feel bad if that has not been the
1:39.0	case for you. Summers have not always been the best for the Packer household. But I want
1:43.9	good summers to be the norm,
1:45.7	not just for me, but for you. So today, you will learn how to prep now to be able to say that
1:52.5	statement in the future as well. That was the best summer. At the end of the summer of
2:00.4	2023, I brought my kids back to school with this giant pit in my stomach.
2:06.2	I felt like the precious time I had had with them had been unremarkable at best, but boring and even frustrating at worse.
2:15.8	I definitely give myself a lot of grace. After all, I was still
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