Is 2014 Your Summer of Fun?

We all know about "staycations."  Whomever came up with this (clever) phrase somehow wants you to think it's suddenly become cool to take your few precious weeks off and save money by staying and exploring your home town.

People here in the Northwest will travel to Multnomah Falls, the Oregon Coast, the high desert or three hours north to Seattle for a Mariners game.  All fun ideas, but once you've done them, you've done them.  The same goes for your home town, I'm sure.

What I really want to do this summer is take a "Braincation" and take the time to reflect on expanding my horizons and really reaching out to others.

Forget New Year's resolutions,when the weather heats up, so should your brain.

Are you volunteering this summer?  Meeting at least one new person a month?    Exploring  new jobs and experiences through social media?

 

A dear friend of mine named Sherry, is calling 2014 her "Year of Fun."   She is normally fun and entertaining, but she has doubled down and is dedicating herself to doing fun things and living a fun existence throughout the entire year. I think she's on to something big.  Let's take our lead from Sherry, one of the great free spirits in America, Let's take a slightly smaller bite of the ambition apple and make it in the summer of _____. 

Fun?  Commitment?  Volunteering?  Friendships?  Water parks? Loving people? Movies?  Being fabulous?

Make a three month commitment to have fun, make more money for you, your company and just plain improving.

Let's also try to do less worrying, watching television, eating crap, being sarcastic, losing our patience and grumbling.  I am guilty of all of this.

We've waited nine months for the good weather.  Let's not blow it.

I you're in AZ, it's already 120, so I can't help you, but for the rest of us, I'm doing as much as I can afford, and am focused on a summer of introspection, self-improvement and fun.

Thanks for the tip, Sherry.  You are so smart.  Bring on the warm weather.  I'm ready.  Now, if it would just stop, raining here in Oregon.

Rich Brase
rich@richideas.net