The Planned Creative

Did 2019 fly on by you leaving you wondering where the time went and what on earth did you do? Do you feel like you spent the year half-assing things and while you made some forward movement you suspect you made it harder than it needed to be and finished out the year tired and drained? If so, you are most definitely not alone and it is nothing to feel guilty about. This is an opportunity. An opportunity to make a pivot in your life and mindset. I suspect, if you're anything like me, when you really think about it where it went wrong is you were sucked into the allure of multi-tasking... Look how productive I am doing four things at once!!!  Multi-tasking is productive sometimes for some activities. But NEVER for anything important or for a significant part of your day. When you are multi-tasking, you are not doing any of the activities with intention. Essentially you are not absorbing anything or growing... or putting your best effort forward. Multi-tasking is best saved f...

she designed a life she loved Here you are - all full of spit and vinegar with you lofty goals and what you want to get done in the next year or so... What do we all do next? Well leap in and do ALL THE THINGS because we're super excited to get rolling of course! What happens next?  A bit of time goes by, we get tired. Life starts rearing its ugly head. Busy season at work comes, kids activities get rolling, holidays happen, family comes to visit, skip a couple days here and there... wait has it been two months since I looked at that already? Cue self-flagellation spiral, a couple more false starts and crap. Now there's only three months left to do a year of work, and it's chock full of other commitments already! What if I told you that one little step, maybe a couple hours of your time, before you go running off gung-ho could make the difference between insanity and success? Get your hands on a year calendar like any of these here . Grab some different coloure...

Check out this 52 Week Habit Tracker! How many times a day do you think you do things without even thinking? Who knows, right? Because you're not thinking about them! This is exactly why they are so powerful... and important. Small things you are doing every day without thinking which can be just as easily moving you forwards or backwards from what you want and you don't even know it's happening. 😱 Here's the hard part - how do you know what little things you are doing that are compounding and long term sabotaging you when you don't even think about them when you do them? AND how do you add little things that will compound and move you forward in a way you don't have to think about because they are "just something you do"? First things first... pretty hard to know where to go if you don't know where you're starting. Starting with the moment you wake up, list out your current morning routine you can remember right now. Do a...

I know, I know... We hear it all the time  🙉 S top the eye rolling and just consider this: Declare Your Intention I'm gonna save up enough money to do a weekend spa getaway. When I lose 10 pounds I'm going to buy that cute dress. I'll take some holidays when work is all caught up. I'll start eating more healthy next week. Some day I'll have a side hustle that generates as much money as my day job. I'll spend more time with my family when things settle down. I'll start exercising when I have more time. All of this sounds pretty awesome right? Who doesn't want at least one of these things? I bet you've said or heard something like at least one of these EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. One problem. Do you notice something they all have in common?  There is no HOW. There is no THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING. Like magically down the road these things will just drop into our laps fully formed and ready to rock. So much "I'm going to",...