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Kat Cuthbert – Planning & Wellbeing

Planning and wellbeing without the pressure for curious, imperfect humans.

The world has plenty of ideas for how your life should look.

But I suspect you, like me, don’t really fit all that well into any of them.

Maybe you’ve tried hard to keep up but you’re struggling and you find yourself wondering if there might be another way.

Perhaps your life path so far is quite a squiggly line with plenty of twists and turns and you want to learn how to take the helm and direct your life away from rough waters and onto fair seas.

Or maybe, like me, you spent a long time chasing what you’d been taught ‘success’ looked like, only to discover that it was a world away from the things you actually need and want.

Let’s figure out your own purposeful squiggly path together.

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Hi there, lovely human!

I’m Kat, planning and wellbeing mentor for creatives carving their own path through life.

I help other curious, creative humans uncover their purpose, support them lovingly and gently to get their sh*t together and build a life that truly lights them up. My approach is rooted in gentle, realistic self-development and my first-hand experience of living a life with plenty of flex.

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Here is a picture of my new @stalogy_official 365 Here is a picture of my new @stalogy_official 365 journal, B6 size, purely to soothe your brain a bit. Look at it in all its pretty prettiness. The tiny handwriting. The perfectly pastel dots. It made me happy to make these pages. So I'm embracing taking a quick and un-curated photo - usually I have backgrounds and props and lighting but f*ck it. This year, this already challenging, difficult year, I'm embracing messy action (thanks @fionalikestoblog). Embracing doing over thinking. Over over-planning. Over worrying and ruminating and procrastinating. Just... Have a go. See what happens. Tidy it up once it's done. Which means, dear follower, that you'll get more of this imperfection and also more goodness, more substance, more depth. More doing, less getting in my own way. And today I think that looks like lying down and doing... Well, f*ck all for a bit. Its only the 5th. Can I get a refund on the year yet? . How are you approaching this year? Have you ignored it? Trying to be a bit more gentle? Being open to change? Share your wisdom below - even if that wisdom is "new year, same sh*t" (I feel you!) . @stalogy_official 365 journal, B6 @mujiuk gel pen, 0.38, black @frompaperchase pastel dot stickers & blue post-it . [Image description: a hand holds open a notebook against a background of plants. The notebook has white pages and shows a bullet journal key on the left hand page, with colour-code key stuck in on one post-it note and Kat's "7 minute morning" journal prompts on another. The right hand page shows a year overview handwritten in black pen with lettered month headers.]
✨It's my favourite month in the planning calenda ✨It's my favourite month in the planning calendar - but also how the f*ck is it December I swear it was March literally last week.✨ At this point in the year, a lot of us begin turning inwards, looking back over the year and starting to think ahead to the next. I know my own internal monologue is getting a lot more reflective, with little pockets of "how do I want 2021 to be?" Mostly its quiet, calm and considered. Flexible, adaptable and with good roots. Good roots see you through storms and MY GOODNESS hasn't 2020 been a storm and a half?! Finding a way to put that at the core of everything I do next year is the focus of my planning this month. How can I make this sustainable? How can I adapt and be flexible while caring for my mental health? How can I prioritise what's important to me? Finding the central thread of how you want things to look can be the key to creating a plan that you can work with. Making it all about something that matters to you, in your heart, at your core. Because those plans are the most fun to create and the easiest to stick to. And you know I love an easy-to-stick-to plan 🤭 . How are you feeling about the prospect of planning next year? Excited? Drained? Apprehensive? Like there's no point? A bit freer BECAUSE it feels like there's no point? . @leuchtturm1917 A5 black dot-grid notebook @pilotpenuk Frixion rollerball, black, 0.5 @frompaperchase green ballpoint pen . Image description in alt-text and comments. . #BulletJournal #MinimalistBulletJournal #JournalCommunity #CreativeLife #StationeryNerd #Planning2021 #December2020 #ReflectiveJournal #Planning #PlannerCommunity #NotebookLove
✨Does the idea of setting goals and intentions f ✨Does the idea of setting goals and intentions feel a bit weird right now?✨ Yeah, me too ✋ Slowly, I'm thinking about planning ahead for 2021 and WOW GOODNESS does that seem like a made up year. And it maybe feels daunting too, this idea of planning for a year that looks to be so changeable. How do you decide what you're going to do next September when you don't know where you'll be in two weeks? There is a way forward, though. It just requires a little more flexibility, a willingness to adapt and boatloads of radical kindness and acceptance. ✨Planning short term with an eye on the bigger picture. ✨Focusing on how you want to *feel* in your life. ✨And setting goals and intentions that align with both of those in a kind and achievable way. On Wednesday 25th, A Breathable Beginning to 2021 will be on sale - a flexible, intentional process for reviewing 2020 and looking ahead to 2021, rooted in radical kindness and acceptance. It's focused on helping you feel good in the here and now, while making sure you're working towards your big picture in a way that works *with* you and your tendencies. Oh, and with a nice dose of take damn care of yourself, too 😁 Ideal for fellow messy-brained humans! Go to the link in my bio and sign up to the Books Of Notes mailing list to be the first to hear when it's available. ✨How do you want to feel this week? How can you make this happen?✨ . Image Description: In alt-text and comments. . #BulletJournal #MinimalBulletJournal #Planning #JournalPrompts #IntentionSetting #GoalSetting #JournalCommunity #CreativeCommunity #CreativeLife #MonthlyPlanning #November2020 #NewYearPlanning #SelfDevelopment #SelfCare #RadicalAcceptance #RadicalKindness #FocusOnTheFeeling
I'm going to make a bet with you, even though I'm I'm going to make a bet with you, even though I'm not usually the betting type. The bet is this: ✨2020 has not turned out at all how you thought it would.✨ Hands up if I won the bet ✋ Looking back to the beginning of the year, that hopeful version of you sat on the cusp of the new year, full of dreams - feels a bit naive, right? Because, well, it has been A YEAR, to say the least (and we're not even at the end yet. Please, December 2020, be gentle 🙏) But I'm also willing to bet something else: that your priorities have shifted in a radically new direction. Suddenly it's not those trappings of traditional achievement that feel appealing any more, but something more holistic. Something more centred around you, your emotions, the emotions of those you care about. ✨Perhaps this looks like a quieter, more home-based life. ✨Perhaps this looks like finding joy in the small things - moving your body, tasting good food, Face Time with a friend. ✨Perhaps this looks like a realisation of just how little you were caring for yourself before all of this. Those shifts can give clues as to what is really important to you. In times of crisis, we pull back, we re-assess, we focus on what really matters. We figure out how to survive, and then we figure out how to move forwards. This year will take a lot of processing, sure. But a sure-fire way of making that process easier is to start by picking out the good - the ways you grew, changed or opened up. So, rather than blocking out this year as one you don't want to look back on, that feels too painful to pick apart, try this instead - ask yourself, how have your priorities shifted this year? What is important to you now that wasn't at the beginning of 2020? . #BulletJournal #MinimalistBulletJournal #RadicalSelfCare #2020 #MinimalistPlanner #RadicalAcceptance #JournalCommunity #NewYearPlanning #FuturePlanning #GoalSetting #IntentionSetting #OnMyDeskToday #Productivity #SlowPlanning #FlexiblePlanning #RadicalShifts #Prioritizing
Who else is feeling juuust a wee bit overwhelmed a Who else is feeling juuust a wee bit overwhelmed as f*ck? Life is A Lot (capitalization intended) right now wherever you are in the world so to hell with it, let's have a self-care gathering. Next Thursday 12th I'm running a ✨FREE✨ live workshop (with a replay available) to help you figure out how to get through this season of 'argh f*ck how do I handle this'. We'll talk self-care, caring for your mental health and how giving your days a little rhythm can work wonders. ✨Sign up via link in bio!✨ Share this one to your stories, too - because I bet you know a few other people who could do with this one. In the meantime, here are three prompts to help make a winter lockdown just that bit less daunting. ✨Start a 'good Sh*t' page in your journal ✨What helped you through lockdown before? ✨What new things do you want to try this time? Remember: This isn't easy, but it is totally possible. Treat yourself with extra kindness over these coming weeks. Give yourself the same grace you'd give a friend. ✨Sign up to join the workshop next week via the link in my bio!✨ . What helped you through lockdown the most last time? Perhaps you scheduled regular calls with a friend, went for a daily walk or simply gave yourself a little more space that usual to be 'unproductive' (whatever that really means). Share your tips below - maybe you'll find something new to try, too! . Image Description: In alt text . #BulletJournal #MinimalistBulletJournal #SelfCare #SelfCareIsntSelfish #MentalHealth #RadicalKindness #SelfCarePlanning #JournalPrompts #JournalCommunity #CreativeCommunity #CreativeLife #November2020 #UKLockdown #RadicalSelfCare
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