Set Your Intent- Develop a schedule and rhythm to nurture your vision.
Time Planning With Your Whole Self
I find that in the summer it is challenging to consolidate my intention and carry out my plans. It is satisfying to be spontaneous on a sunny day, but this only occurs if I focus on my goals part of the time, to allow periods of free time.
Without a written plan I tend to be less observant of my time, or it spins in my head, as I try to remember my priorities.
If my plan is too linear I feel constrained and resentful. Like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, I look for that “just right combination” of accomplishment and openness. Be observant, though that planning your time is not a shallow task. Rather it brings in your deepest goals, intentions and reasons for being on the planet.
Time Planning
Time planning allows you to put your dreams and soul purpose into action, every day of your life. The more time you spend doing what really matters the more meaning you will find in each day.
Many people who do this exercise, painfully learn that their
days are filled with activities that take up time, but do not meet
their deep aspirations. If your days are constantly filled with urgent goals, that do not get you closer to your soul purpose, feelings of emptiness, depression, or being out of alignment occur. It feels like time is passing, but it is not significant. Also, be clear that everyone’s goals are different because they are aligned with soul purpose, so we cannot compare our goals. The measuring stick is internal. Self punishment is not an effective way to remedy wasted time, but rather just acknowledgement and commitment to move toward what feels important in a deep inner way.
When creating your day, remember we only
have a finite of time on the planet. Look to the old adage, “what you
would like your epitaph to look like? If you are not doing,
what you know in your heart you are here to do, this is your chance
to change that.
There is no way to have an effective schedule without first clarifying personal goals.
What do I really want in my life? What is my soul purpose? Am I living that purpose? What specific steps can move me toward this? These steps are goals
or activities that have a deep importance to you. Spend time with them.
They are the strands of intention that weave together the fabric of your life. Do not rush or force this process. Involve your dreamer in the process, helping to illuminate your reason for being on the planet.
When you identify a goal with deep meaning, your body will acknowledge its importance. There will be some sense of alignment, tingling, sense of excitement or knowing.
After you determine what steps you need to take to accomplish the steps necessary to meet these deeper goals, plan your daily schedule to live out what is important to you, at your core level.
Record your goals and intentions with beauty. Although a scrap of paper will work in a pinch, your psyche will affirm your time and goals are important to you, when you treat them like royalty.
Create a beautiful page you then photocopy to be your time planning template. You can get many planning tools online but creating your own is also an option. If you want something less linear, than the usual time planning schedule, draw a large, circle on the page and divide it into pies, each with a name. The size of each pie represents the amount of time, you wish this quality or activity to have in your day. The size of the pies can vary from day to day or week to week, depending on your goals.
To help with this project you might ask:
What is my true purpose?
What actions keep me true to my purpose?
What actions will help me find balance in my life?
What actions will keep my home clean and harmonious?
What actions will move my career forward?
What actions will keep beauty and love in my life?
What actions will nurture my body with good food and exercise?
What actions will support my dreams and daydreams?
What else is important to me?
What or who will help me most with my goals?
How can I tell when I get off track with what is important to me?
How can I get back on track?
Ensure the plans you make reflect the goals you wish to
Accomplish. Keep the actions to small, bite-sized pieces that you can accomplish easily.
Clues:
If you say a quality or goal is important but does not show up
much in your day or week, how do you remedy this? If you feel at
all sad, melancholic or irritable, while filling out your time planner,
look for what is missing. If I don’t include some pleasure, I feel a sense of
frustration I’ve traced to being associated with an inadequate amount
of joy in my schedule. If I am spending all my time on other people’s priorities I can feel resentment creeping in. So monitor your response to your plans for your emotional reaction and your body sensations. Then go back to the goals that are causing upset and rethink and rewrite.
Is a quality over-represented in your life? How can you remedy
that? The time planning form you create will be the template for how you use your life energy and your brilliance. Never undervalue your purpose and time. Instead, create a template and actions that allow your beauty to shine and your gifts to come forward.
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