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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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✨Planning feeling like a pointless activity righ ✨Planning feeling like a pointless activity right now?✨ Yeah. Me too. While figuring out the big stuff might seem overwhelming, you still deserve to have your hand on the rudder of the smaller stuff, too. Those day to day things are just as important, if not more so. Because how you feel in your days affects just about everything else - each of those days makes up a life. Each one builds on the last. Give yourself some gentle, calm or creative days, and those bricks make up a gentle, calm or creative life. And right now, when it's difficult to know what's going on next week let alone next month, keeping your eye on the everyday means you're focused in on what you can control. What you can do. What you can make cosy because Oh My Goodness am I excited that it's jumpers and boots season. ✨Save these simple prompts for a cosy November planning session later this week!✨ ✨Where do you want to be at the end of November? ✨How do you want to feel this month? ✨How can you begin creating this feeling? ✨Break your needs, wants and feelings into to-do's ✨Write a menu of five 20-minute self-care actions. Each day this month, pick one to do. . #accessibility ID in alt-text . #BulletJournal #MinimalistBulletJournal #Planning #JournalPrompts #JournalCommunity #CreativeCommunity #CreativeLife #MonthlyPlanning #November2020 #SelfDevelopment #SelfReflection #RadicalSelfCare
Do you know what my biggest ✨pet hate✨ is when Do you know what my biggest ✨pet hate✨ is when we talk about planning? This idea that you have to stick to the plan, no matter what, and if you don't you didn't want it enough. 🙄 Why? Because it makes everything a personal failing and feeds into the idea that we are the ONLY makers of our destiny, conveniently ignoring some BIG issues (*cough structural racism misogyny homophobia ableism and any and every intersection of those and more). It sees facts of life as things you're fighting AGAINST not working WITH. It sees perfection as the ideal, #hustle as standard and goal smashing as the ultimate, well, goal. ✨Crock of sh*t, if you ask me.✨ There is a better way, though. ✨You can work with your particular set of needs ✨You can make a plan and change your mind ✨You can hold a flexible, evolving picture of where you want to head in your mind ✨You don't need to be so damn rigid AND NONE OF THIS MEANS THAT YOU DIDN'T WANT IT ENOUGH. (It just means you're a human.) It means figuring out your direction, setting goals based on how you want to FEEL and planning in a way that works for real, messy humans who sometimes can't get out of bed on a Sunday 😴 quite often ignore their emails and are really, really grateful for erasable pens in their planner (game changer). You can even build in space in your plan for you to completely ignore your plan. That's a thing you're allowed to do. Plan to ignore the plan. Sounds good, right? Hands up ✋ my fellow messy humans - I see you! . @moleskine expanded edition, soft cover, dot grid @the.completist washi tape from @paper_smiths @pilotpenuk Frixion pen, 0.5, black . #accessibility ID in alt text and caption . #BulletJournal #MinimalistBulletJournal #Bujo #MinimalistBujo #PlannerCommunity #Planning #Journaling #JournalCommunity #DailyRhythm #SelfDevelopment #SelfReflection #NewYearPlanning #2021Planning #CreativeBusiness #CreativeBurnout #IntrovertPower #FollowYourEnergy #AntiHustle #SelfCareIsntSelfish #FlatLayLove #OnTheTable #OnMyDeskToday #OfficePlants #NotebookLove #StationeryLove #SlowPlanning #Productivity
🎃 SAVE THIS ONE FOR SOME SPOOKY-SEASON SELF-CAR 🎃 SAVE THIS ONE FOR SOME SPOOKY-SEASON SELF-CARE 🎃 . A little 'woo' for all you woo-curious humans - some self-care ideas to incorporate into this spookiest of weeks (Satuday 31st marks Halloween and Samhain, as well as being a full moon 🌕). This is something I hesitated to share here because, well, my own internal compass often points to logic and reason above all else. But it also swings wildly the other way, too - I use tarot cards, go to full moon rituals and constantly have a few crystals in my pocket for no other reason than "they feel like I need them". And for such a long time I hid those parts of myself in a box sealed with sarcasm and derision 😶 But they deserve to see the light just as often as my more 'rational' & 'logical' parts do, too, even if sometimes I have trouble explaining them. Even if sometimes I say things out loud and some part of me thinks I sound very silly indeed but still, somehow, I know that I deeply mean them. In reality though, it's a bit of a false dichotomy. Both of these parts of my life are equally important. Both play a role in how I move through this world. And both really are just another way of explaining experience, of learning to cope with the realities of this world, of gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves. ✨So, for those of you new to 'woo' but here with a curious heart - save this post for later and try one of them this week. It's a gentle, low-stakes way of finding new methods to connect with yourself. ✨And for fellow 'woo' humans - feel free to try them out or embellish them as you need. ✨You do you, woo✨ . #accessibility Image description: in alt-text and comments. . #BulletJournal #MinimalistBulletJournal #PlannerInspiration #JournalPrompts #JournalCommunity #Spirituality101 #Halloween #Halloween2020 #Samhain #Samhain2020 #FullMoonPrompts #SelfCare #CreativeLife #RadicalSelfCare #SelfCareIsntSelfish #CreativeBusiness #FillYourCup #YouAreWorthy #SelfCareThreads #SpookySeason #SelfCareIdeas #SelfCarePrompts
✨Let me tell you something that might feel uncom ✨Let me tell you something that might feel uncomfortable (but with practice will feel oh so freeing). ✨It is totally okay to prioritise things that feel good over things that feel like you *should* do them.✨ (This is probably the complete opposite of what you've been told, explicitly or implicitly, your entire life, I know). Now, I'm not suggesting here that you ditch any and all responsibilities like hot coals and jet off to Zante ✈️ (please don't, the pandemic is still happening). What I am suggesting is that, when those responsibilities are tied to and flow from a purposeful direction that you truly, honestly, whole-heartedly want to head in, they become so much easier to get done. That when you have a direction for your life, you begin to find more clarity 🍃 and focus in your planning, your living and your days. That having this visual (or written down) version of how we'd like life to be or feel makes taking the next step so much easier because you know where you're headed and, crucially, why. It also makes moving through this uncertain world far easier because it allows you to be flexible in both where you're going and how you get there. I know that, right now, it feels strange to think ahead, to want something other than survival for yourself. But by holding on to that direction, even in these eventful times, you're keeping your eye on the horizon 🌅 You can let yourself just be, and care for yourself and allow yourself to just exist right now, while knowing where to head when you feel ready again. So, take 5 minutes. Close your eyes. Imagine yourself in the middle of an ordinary day 6 months from now. (Yes, this will be difficult because it is VERY obvious noone has any idea where they'll be in 4 weeks, let alone 6 months. Stick with me.) How does yours look? . #BulletJournal #MinimalistBulletJournal #MinimalistBujo #PlannerCommunity #JournalCommunity #Planning #CreativeBusiness #IntentionSetting #GoalSetting #SlowPlanning #FlexiblePlanning #Prioritising #NotebookLove #SelfCareForCreatives #SelfDevelopment #BulletJournalCommunity #October2020 #JournalPages #OnMyDeskToday #Productivity #FutureGoals #FuturePlanning
✨GOALS AREN'T ANOTHER STICK TO BEAT YOURSELF WIT ✨GOALS AREN'T ANOTHER STICK TO BEAT YOURSELF WITH.✨ . It is so important to plan in a way that works with you and your tendencies. But so often we set goals in a way that makes them: a) difficult to make progress on and b) far too tough. You know the ones - they feel more like a dead weight, something you have to do rather than something you want to do and the closer you get to the deadline the more of a failure you feel. Either that, or part way through you realise you're not going to hit said goal and ignore it, pretending you've made the decision that you're not going to do it anymore (when in in fact what you're doing is avoiding it). Sound familiar? But how can you set goals that are a) kind 💜 and, b) actually achievable 💪? (oh and c) work in an ever-changing, uncertain world?) A few ideas: ✨Come at your goals from a place of growth, not a place of lack; ✨Think about how you are motivated to do other things in your life - are you extrinsically motivated (deadlines, accountability partners etc) or intrinsically motivated (for personal gain or interest)? ✨Strip out all the should's and musts - what is important to YOU? ✨Remember that the reason you are setting any goals in the first place is because you want to feel good about your life and where you are headed.✨ That's it, that's the tweet 💫 . #BulletJournal #MinimalistBujo #PlannerCommunity #Planning #Organisation #GoalSetting #IntentionSetting #RadicalKindness #SelfDevelopment #PlannerCommunity #CreativeBusiness #JournalCommunity #NewYearPlanning #SelfReflection #Productivity #SlowPlanning #FlexiblePlanning #GoalSetter #IntentionalLife #SelfCareForCreatives #MentalHealth
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