Hi First name / Slothy!,
Somewhere between Memorial Day and Labor Day, there’s this collective fantasy that summer will feel lighter. More spontaneous. Maybe even a little carefree.
And then Monday shows up.
We’re adults now, which means sleepaway camp, pool days, and endless afternoons with zero responsibilities are mostly a memory.
The reality is that most of us will spend the most gorgeous weeks of the year working. But that doesn’t mean fun is off the table. It just means fun has a prerequisite.
For most of us, fun can only really happen when things feel handled.
When your inbox is a black hole, and your to-do list is held together with hope, there’s no room for ease. Every decision pulls you back into work mode. Every dropped thread costs you time and energy you didn’t have to spare. Fun doesn’t exist in that environment.
Here’s what actually creates space for it: structure.
I know that word sounds like the opposite of fun, but stay with me. When your work lives in a structured system instead of in your head, you stop reinventing the wheel every week. You stop spending your creative energy on logistics.
I was reminded of this during a recent discovery call with a past client. She originally hired me to build out her Asana system, and things have been running so smoothly inside her marketing firm that she came back wanting to bring that same ease to one of her own clients.
During our call, she said something really honest. She said the intake process is the slog. The part where you have to download everything you’ve been holding in your head: every workflow, every exception, every “we just always do it this way” process you’ve never actually written down.
And honestly? She’s right. That part is hard.
But here’s what I reminded her: the mental rolodex she's dreading to unpack for her client is the one she used to be carrying every single day. That’s why things felt so heavy that she needed to call me.
So the real question becomes: which hard do you want to choose?
The hard of carrying it all indefinitely because starting feels overwhelming?
Or
The hard that is taking a few hours to download it all once, so you can create a system from that point forward?
I’ll choose the second one every time. So will my clients, which is exactly why they come back.
And if you're wondering: why can't you just do it for me? I get it. But systems built without you usually backfire. You don’t know where anything is, you stay dependent on someone else, and you never fully adopt the process.
That’s why so many of my services are built with you, not just for you. I teach you the savvy ways to simplify your work and create systems you can actually maintain, even during your busiest season.
Because that’s the goal, right? To build a life you can actually enjoy!
You deserve to have fun and to sloth out when summer or any break calls.
I personally plan to have a very slothy summer. I hope you do too.
XOXO,
Renee
