Hey Everyone,
I’ve already given similar advice several times this month but it still applies so I am going to remind myself (and you!) again.
If you have a list of stuff that you were trying to get done before the end of the year/the end of the holidays/the end of the month/the end of the week, then you probably have more tasks than time right now.
Sooooo, in the interests of creating space in your brain and in your schedule, it’s probably a good idea to review your plans and decide which things are actually important to you, which things you have time to do, and what you are going to do with the rest of the stuff on your list.
But before you get into that process, please promise me that you won’t be hard on yourself about anything that didn’t get done.
It’s really hard to judge how much time we will have in any given month, let alone in December when the air around us is essentially filled with possible tasks for us to take on.
(And it’s fine to be overly ambitious and hopeful about your capacity, as long as you aren’t mean to yourself when it doesn’t work out. Since I find it a challenge to prioritize my tasks and minimize my to do list, I often just pile AllOfTheThings on there and try not to put too much pressure on myself about stuff that doesn’t get done. I have varying success with this but it works ok overall)
Anyway, if you have your list on paper or screen, take a look through it and decide on a reasonable amount of things for you to do over the next few days. You can even schedule specific times for those tasks if it helps.
If you don’t have a list, just a vague sense of things needing to be done, then please, please, please, get those tasks on paper or on screen so they aren’t filling up your brain any more.
And just because the item is on your list doesn’t mean that you have to do now (or at all!) – don’t forget that items on your list can also be delayed, delegated, or deleted.
The idea here is to make space in your brain and in your calendar so you can spend the last few days of 2025 in ways that make the most sense for you and for your life instead of scrambling to get a bunch of unevaluated tasks done just for the sake of checking them off a list.
So, Team, I know we have varying degrees of freedom around choosing our tasks and our schedules, but I hope that doing a quick review right now helps you find a bit of space for yourself in there somewhere.
And, as always, I wish you ease and space – no matter how you go about making it.
Here’s today’s suggested movement practice:
And here’s our suggested meditation practice for today:
