Overwhelmed By Planning The Next Year?

Try this as a first step

A new year and the pressure of what am I going to do with it. Do I sit down and revamp my personal mission statement, go out in the woods and try to catch a new vision for my life, or what? I am trying to figure out how to recover from the cost of the holidays and afford butter let alone dive into planning for the entire year.

For many the week after Christmas is a neutral zone and for some that extends throughout January. A kind of downtime where we vege out and let things be as a way to recover from the past few months, yet we sense an urgency to purposefully plan our upcoming year so that we achieve what is important to us.

“Basic industry of the neutral zone, which is attentive inactivity and ritualized routine.”

William Bridges/Transitions

Composer Peter Tchaikovsky referred to daily routine as a settling down, when time passes quietly, and it is hard to tell one day from another. If that doesn’t capture what it is like after the holidays I don’t know what does, but it’s a new year and we need to plan, make decisions, pivot, and live with purpose.

Where do we begin? Sitting down at the table and mapping out the year sounds like a great idea, but we often find we only have the capacity to sit and stare. It…