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A guide to planning and creating in tune with the seasons

So much can happen in a year. We feel it January, when we’re closely connected to our dreams, hopes and visions. Yet the year has a tendency to run away from us, and yearly goals and plans can quickly become forgotten and detached from reality.

But we need that clear route ahead, the one that shows the way from where we are now to where we want to get to in our creative lives. Without it, we run the risk of becoming stressed, overwhelmed, uncertain and a bit lost.

Starting each season by checking in with your long term vision can give you that clarity of knowing you’re doing the work that will matter to you in the long run as well. You’ll get clear on what to focus your seasonal energy on, so you can relax into doing the work and find the patience that each season is part of your longer journey. Instead of a packed, stressful plan, you can create one with a clear seasonal focus where you embrace the pace that is right for you.

Seasonal planning can be a meaningful ritual both to welcome a new season and to plan your creative work. Four Seasons of Creative Work helps you both set your yearly creative goals and visions, and work towards them by planning and creating in tune with the seasons.

Planning both yearly and by the seasons help you connect your daily activities with your bigger goals and ideas. It helps you root your creative work in your seasonal energy and inspiration and work in harmony with the seasons. Because even our big creative goals happen in the small joyful moments of our day to day lives.

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What we dig into

YEARLY

Looking back and ahead: journaling questions guide you to reflect on the past year and how you want to spend the year ahead.

Word of the year: what a good word of the year is, how you want yours to guide you and choosing a word of the year.

Helpful goal-setting: what kind of goals actually help us and setting yearly goals based in your bigger creative dreams.

Focus areas: you find the different areas you need to focus on to get to your yearly goals and use these to plan your seasons.

SEASONALLY

Exploring the seasons: how the seasons tend to affect us and our creative work, and what is true for you.

Seasonal plan: a plan for what to focus on in each season so you don’t end up trying to do everything at once.

Goals check-ins: seasonal check-in with your yearly goals and plans to make sure they’re still relevant and helpful.

Monthly activity plan: a plan that shows which activities you want to focus on for each month.

Seasonal lifestyle: what inspires you about each season and how you can embrace that in your lifestyle and daily creative habits.

In Four Seasons of Creative Work, I help you embrace and enjoy each season for what it is and find your focus for it.

Instead of chopping up the year in constructed quarters, we plan and reflect in tune with the flow of the seasons. We draw from that energy of a seasonal shift to find inspiration and motivation for the work ahead.

In spring, we awaken our creativity.
In summer, we release what we need to.
In autumn, we go deeper in our work.
In winter, we reflect on our journey.

And all through the year, we open our eyes to beauty of each season and the joy of the creative process.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved the turn of the seasons. At the end of one season, I feel pulled to the next one as if by a force deep inside of me. The seasons affect my energy, mood, inspiration and yes… my creative work. Sitting down at the start of each season to plan my creative work during it feels inspiring, joyful and completely natural. I hope it will do the same for you.

What you’ll get

A total of five workbooks. One 32 page yearly workbook to set goals and plan your creative year. Four seasonal workbooks to fill out during the year and plan for the upcoming season. Within those you’ll find:

  • Guides for choosing a word of the year and setting goals.

  • My gentle planning philosophy and process to root your creative work in your dreams and goals.

  • Theory of how the seasons affect us, our energy and our creativity based on surveys and conversations with creatives.

  • Inspiration for seasonal slow living activities and seasonal photo prompts.

  • Seasonal focus plans that you can put on your wall to remind and guide you.

You also get monthly and weekly journaling pages to reach for if you feel the need.

This is for you if…

  • You often feel inspired and motivated in January but can become detached from your yearly goals.

  • You have goals and ideas in your creative work that you want to move towards, but you sometimes struggle to see how it’s gonna happen.

  • You want to check in with and reflect on your direction at regular points in the year, but the quarters feel a bit constructed.

  • You like to have a plan but also want flexibility and not to feel stressed and trapped by a too tight schedule.

  • You sometimes struggle with what to focus on at different points during the year and feel like you have to do everything at once.

  • You love the turn of the seasons and feel affected by them. You are inspired by slow living ideas and want to embrace living and creating more in tune with the seasons.

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 FAQs

  • Yes. Four Seasons of Creative Work is created primarily with the northern hemisphere in mind since that’s what I have experience of, but you’ll have the option to decide which months are connected to which seasons.

  • No. We work on the level of goals, focus areas and plans down to a monthly level. I find that everyone has different tastes in scheduling and that planning works best when you can embrace your own preferred way of scheduling.

  • Yes! The guide includes a yearly workbook to help you choose yearly goals and focus areas, but you can also dive right into the seasonal workbooks. If you are beginning in summer for example, either fill in any yearly goals and intentions you might have in the yearly workbook, or just move straight on to the summer workbook!