Planning Q4: Making space for joy

It feels like there’s still a lot to do and wrap up until the end of the year. Maybe you still want to make some more revenue to reach your goal; maybe you want to update your website to showcase the new work that you’ve done this year.

But before we end up in an endless to-do tunnel, it’s good to take a deep breath, pause, and reassess:

What’s really important? If you can only get one more big priority done, what is it? Is it still the one you set a while ago, or has it changed?

What do you still have energy for?

What about your deadlines: are they real or artificial, self-imposed deadlines? Could you move some of them until end of January 2027, or even February?

Whom do you still wanna say thank you for having helped, taught or enriched you in any way this year?

What do you wanna celebrate, how, when and with whom?

What are you looking forward to? An event, a course, a collaboration with somebody?

Often, when we do less, we create more space for joy, lightness, play, gratitude and a feeling of abundance.