{"id":1456,"date":"2013-09-09T06:18:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2020-04-02T09:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:40:02","slug":"the-summers-over-youve-got-to-buckle-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"The Summer\u2019s Over, You\u2019ve Got To Buckle Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From when I was a kid in elementary school, right through my senior year at Boston College, when this time of year came around, so did an end-of-summer lecture from my dad. Year in and year out, the lecture began like this: \u201cThe summer\u2019s over. It\u2019s time to buckle down. You had your fun\u2026\u201d My father proceeded on and on, for what felt like hours, on what had to be done in the upcoming school year. This lecture always annoyed me, and he knew it, but he faithfully delivered it each year, despite my rolling my eyes and displeasure to hear it once again.<\/p>\n

I remember saying to him, \u201cDad, I know, I know.\u201d In fact, as I got older I would anticipate the speech and start it for him, \u201cI know\u2026 The summer\u2019s over, I\u2019ve got to buckle down\u2026\u201d We were chatting it about it the other day, and he said he gave \u201cthe speech\u201d to my kids. I kind of liked that; it got me thinking, as annoyed as it made me, it set the table for the beginning of the school year. It always focused me on the new task at hand, helped shake off the cobwebs that the summer left in certain areas of my brain, and prepared me for what was about to come. The speech worked.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking the business world needs a lecture from my dad, because I am not sure if it\u2019s just me, but during the summer months, it seems like everything in business basically shuts down. All deals seam to linger and not much is accomplished. Of course I am generalizing, but the summer slowdown is blatantly noticeable these years, post the modern crash of 2008. Summer was always a time for vacations and time to recharge the batteries, but it\u2019s much more than that these days. It\u2019s as if the U.S. businesses have unofficially shut down for the summer months, similar to many plants and corporations in other parts of the world that shut down in the summer.<\/p>\n

Quite frankly, I don\u2019t think people in the world of business ramp up in September as quickly as students do heading back to class. There is not that \u201chop in the step\u201d of adults as there is in school kids, brought on by the crisp, cool temps of the soon-to-be-fall mornings. The worst part is that many complain about it, but no one seems to do anything about it. Late August used to be a time to prepare and get organized to hit the ground running in September. The urgency that should be present this time of year to get things done has not yet seemed to kick in.<\/p>\n

So, in my best fatherly voice, \u201cThe summer\u2019s over. It\u2019s time to buckle down. You\u2019ve had your fun. It\u2019s time to focus and get back to business.\u201d Now, with a little of my spin on it, \u201cTime to get off your ass and \u2018Go Do\u2019 folks, no more summer excuses, no more barbeques, no more ditching out early on Fridays and showing up late on Mondays.\u201d<\/p>\n

You want to get ahead of the competition? It\u2019s time to buckle down\u2026<\/p>\n

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From when I was a kid in elementary school, right through my senior year at Boston College, when this time of year came around, so did an end-of-summer lecture from my dad. Year in and year out, the lecture began like this: \u201cThe summer\u2019s over. It\u2019s time to buckle down. You had your fun\u2026\u201d My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[163,120,161,162,130],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-advice","tag-business-success","tag-focus","tag-leader","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}