The kids are back at school in the US, and new college kids are heading to orientation as we speak. The house is eerily quiet.
Woohooo!
But what about you? Got that back to school feeling, or are you just trying to recover from the summer break/last 18 years?
I have several ideas to get us back in that fun feeling of back to school:
Buy new shoes (this is my sister’s idea). We wore a school uniform at our high school so back-to-school clothes were not really a thing….oh but shoes! Squeaky new leather shoes for September. So exciting. But you could get some sneakers, or heels, or crocs. I just bought some slip-on canvas things (sort of like the old ‘boat shoes’) that are comfy for office work but don’t make me look like I’m wearing slippers if I go to the store in them. Very post-pandemic.
Organize your online files. Did you know you can color code google drive files? I love this feature. Makes organizing more fun and pretty if nothing else. Just right-click on a folder and one of the drop down options will be ‘color’. What files do you need to add or archive? The single biggest timesaver for me has been to add a folder for my bios and headshots. Whenever I was giving presentations or talks I used to spend ages hunting for my latest or most appropriate bio. Now they’re all in the same spot. I’ve my 100-word bio, my public-friendly bio, my academic-friendly bio etc. And it’s easy to pic a headshot to go along with it (high res, low res, or black and white options too).
JOIN ME for weekly co-work sessions in September! For the month of September, every Tuesday at 11am ET (sorry West Coasters, I know that’s earlyish), we will get together on zoom for a two hour co-work ‘sprint’. Bring something you want to work on (anything), and we’ll share our goals for the two hours at the beginning. Then I’ll set a timer for about 45-50 minutes and we all mute and turn off camera while we work. Then we come back and take a 5 minute break. And then do the same again. At the end, we will come back on camera to celebrate our accomplishments and feel better about getting something checked off the list! How about it? This is for paid subscribers only, so if you want to join us (it will really be fun and productive, I promise), head over to update your subscription, or click on the subscribe link below. I’ll be sending out more details to the paid subscribers later today!
More back-to-school fun for grown ups tomorrow :-)