It's that time again! Time for me to sit down, connect in and create a plan for the next few months.
Planning is the best and the worst of things - am I right?
Let's look at the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition for a second:
Plan (verb): to arrange the parts of : design
For someone who has experienced loss, it can be SO easy to use a plan to sabotage ourselves.
Hear me out...
When we experience devastating loss, we also experience almost unmanageable feelings of powerlessness and these feelings of powerlessness bring us to step into coping...
So what do we do?
We consciously or unconsciously deal with these feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control every aspect of our lives.
Circling back to using a plan as a way to cope...
For someone who has experienced loss, it can be really easy to use a plan as a means of trying to control the future.
What's really awful about it is that we try to predict how our future will pan out and...
When we do this we almost always assume that life won't throw us something unexpected.
But let's get real...
Life throws us unexpected stuff (good or bad) all the time.
So here's what happens...
The plan that we consciously or unconsciously thought would help us gain control over our lives ends up making us feel even more out of control.
If you've experienced this, you know just how annoying, disappointing and seriously disheartening this can really be.
That's exactly why I created a planning method that supports myself and my clients in flexibly designing our lives.
A planning process that enables us to dream (and get shit done), but also that supports us in staying flexible and open to what life throws our way.
It's a planning method where YOU are at the center, your dreams are in the pipeline, and you don't drive yourself crazy trying to force it either.
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Always in your corner,
Carlee
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