Let's get this fall started! I'm ready to shake summer off my feet, climb into some fresh hoodies and crunchy New England leaves, and work through the busy and fun quarter four!

^^ If you're sensing almost *too much* Julie enthusiasm right now, you're correct.

That's me hyping myself up for fall, because honestly? Summer was hard.

Business was slow, people were either paying less attention or just distracted by the never-ending headlines of doom & gloom, or they were too busy talking to ChatGPT to notice.

However, in any hard season, there are good things too. And when I started to look more closely at the last three months, behind the foggy slumpy summer doldrums... there were some high points. Interesting experiments. Fun things I tried that did in fact work!

It's like those weird images that go viral on social media. Do you see a dog or a horse?

You either cannot see the horse to save your life, or you finally do and then cannot see the dog ever again.*

Perspective.

Focus.

How we choose to look at something matters a whole lot.

*If you're the one who can't see the dog or the horse but somehow envision a sickly frog, I have no idea what to tell you.

The last two episodes on my podcast are all about lessons & experiments. Shifting my focus to the good things I learned and discovered, because it's there if you look.

One is called 10 Unexpected Lessons I Learned This Summer. The other is called 7 Experiments I Tried (that you can steal).

The first one is more reflective, the second one a bit more tactical. You can listen on any browser or on Apple Podcasts.

xx Julie