SERIOUSLY, HOW DO YOU GET WORK DONE WHEN YOU LIVE BY THE BEACH!

Every morning when you wake up it’s there. The smell of the damp ocean air creeping through every little crevice, the sound of the pounding waves. Sometimes crashing angrily on top of each other as they rear up against the wind or sometimes just murmuring in the brightness of the new day, but it’s there…………the beach!

All this and you have to get up and go to work. SERIOUSLY? REALLY? WORK?

Well, after living not far from the beach for the past few years, I can tell you it is tempting to throw the towel in, pun intended, ring the boss and call in a sickie BUT as we all know that would be the easy way out and probably the most disastrous as the boss would eventually pull the pin on your job and you would really be living on the beach…………..in a sleeping bag , hoping the tide doesn’t come too far in whilst you sleep. Hoping the seagulls don’t eat your meagre supplies donated by passers-by!!!

I digress, I found that living by the beach encourages you to become a morning person as missing the sun rise over the horizon is for those city dwellers, not us ‘coasties’ , so with that in mind I found that getting out of my cosy doona cover (duvet) just 20 minutes earlier than anticipated gave me just enough time to get out of the door to smell the sea in the air and breathe it in deeply. I found that this gets your body to slowly awaken and stretch itself, to listen to the sound of the rhythm of the crashing waves and think about the rhythm of the day ahead and put it all in perspective, AND because you’ve ducked out early you have a fair idea of what the weather is going to bring so your work wardrobe can be adjusted accordingly!

You can then set of to that pesky day job knowing that all that deliciousness you have just encountered will be there waiting for you at the end of the day to listen and to soothe all the work troubles away……”Surf’s up”  as Tradie Tom would say.

Who wouldn’t want to live by the beach and hold down a job? Seriously?

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