Are you wanting to make a change and keen to try living with intention?
Design Your Season to be intentional about your time
Are you feeling stuck, despondent or lacking in motivation?
Feeling as though something needs to change but you’re not sure what, or where to start?
Want to get things happening and set some goals for yourself, but are unsure how to make them feel good?
Like the sound of living with more intention, but it feels daunting and too hard?
I understand. I’ve felt all of these, many times.
It’s hard not to when there are so many things we can see in the world that we desperately want to change, but feel unable to make a difference as they are out of our control.
What I’ve found helps, especially when I am feeling discouraged either personally or about something happening in the world, is focussing on the things that ARE within my control.
And getting very clear and intentional about how and what I will do within that space.
Put most simply, by CHOOSING what we focus on, we bring back a sense of control.
When we are feeling discouraged or overwhelmed we can get very intentional about where we place our focus, which then brings us back to a place of calm, and an increased sense of control.
And if we want to live a meaningful, intentional purpose of life, we need to take control of what we pay attention to.
As the Tony Robbins quote says, “Where focus goes, energy flows.”
Start small
My favourite way to get intentional and shift a feeling of despondency, or lack of motivation is to start small.
When we are experiencing overwhelm, lack of motivation or facing a large, daunting goal, it can feel challenging to know where to start. Which is why starting small is key!
Research supports that when we start with one small thing or one small step, regardless of the size of change we want to make, we jumpstart our motivation and obtain a sense of achievement. Which in turn supports us to take the next step towards our goal, and the next.
After all, even big changes are really just a series of smaller changes made over time.
And if you needed more persuading, Viktor Frankl, in Man’s Search for Meaning, shares that from his experience in Nazi concentration camps, those with short term goals fared better and maintained a better sense of well-being than those with longer term goals.
The Design Your Season approach supports you to start small, with customised, made-for-you, short-term goals.
A good way to try living with intention
It’s all sounds great, right? But you’re still not sure this intentional living thing is for you.
I get it. It can be daunting to making large changes in your life, or consider living with intention for an entire year (or more). But by starting small, with a shorter, 3-month period (a ‘season’) or a time of your choosing, living with intention feels far more doable.
Designing your Season can be an experimental way to practice living with intention, and see what it feels like AND see what changes occur in your life as a result of being more intentional.
What is Designing a season?
I’ve written about designing your season, and designing this season before.
I first heard the idea of Designing your Summer on the podcast Happier with Gretchen Ruben.
According to Gretchen, designing a season is about planning ahead for a 3-month period around how you want to feel, and what you'd like to do or accomplish.
For me, designing and planning any period of time around how you want to feel, and what you might like to achieve seems like a fun way to break up the year.
“The year will move on either way, but by paying attention to it, feeling its beat, and noticing the moments of transition - perhaps even taking time to think about what we want from the next phase in the year - we can get the measure of it.”
Design your Season
So, have you considered how you want to use next week, the next month or even the next three months?
What do you want to remember this time for?
How do you want to feel during this period, and at the end of this time?
What ‘flavour’ do you want to give these weeks or months?
How can you make your chosen time period memorable for the right reasons?
My Design Your Season self-guided workshop with workbook shares the approach I use to refocus my energy and get motivated each time I need to move past feeling stuck. By working through the questions and actions, it helped provide clarity and support when I needed it most.
After completing the Self-Guided Design Your Season Workshop and workbook, you will have a high-level strategic plan around how you can make the most of ANY time period and truly have designed your season.
Additionally, because the Design Your Season self-guided workshop and workbook is a digital product, you can use it time after time, whenever you feel the need or desire to Design Your Season.
Please note, once purchased, every download link is unique to the purchaser and expires 24 hours after the link is first clicked.
“The workshop was refreshing, reflective and required! It was perfect timing and included many great ideas to help me be a better me. The examples shared stimulated my thinking and feeling.”
About the Design your Season self-guided workshop and workbook
The Design Your Season self-guided workshop is a digital download. Utilising both the workshop and accompanying workbook will support you design and plan a season, or any period of time, around how you want to feel, and what you might like to achieve.
This workshop can be used at any time, for any 3-month/90 day period, or any timeframe of your choice, whenever you wish to be intentional about how you use and experience your time.
Upon completing this guided workshop and activities, you will have a high-level strategic plan for how you can make the most of your 3 month period, and truly have Designed Your Season.
And as it is a self-paced workshop, you complete the activities at your own rate. Whether you decide to do it all in one morning, or spread it out over a weekend, or week or longer - it’s completely up to you!
As a guide, if you wish to complete all the activities in one sitting, you will need approximately 1 hour to complete the workshop from start to finish.
Because I believe so passionately in the transformative benefits of the Design Your Season approach, this workshop is priced at a very affordable A$47. Simply click through to purchase.
Please note, once purchased, every download link is unique to the purchaser and expires 24 hours after the link is first clicked.
About your self-guided workshop creator
Rowena Mabbott is a Career and Life Confidence Coach, writer, podcast host, speaker, mother and consultant. As a Career and Life Confidence Coach, Rowena works with women and men from around the world who want to gain clarity and feel more confident in their careers and life.
Rowena has a degree in Psychology and Business Law. Prior to becoming a Certified Life Coach, she spent nearly twenty years working as a Human Resources Professional in large corporates, with not-for-profits and as an independent consultant, with a focus on organisational development, employee engagement and change management.
Rowena has more than twenty-five years of mentoring and coaching experience.
