A Passion for Ease, Flow & Freedom

Since I was very young, I have been interested in the question:

• How can I make use of the energy of ‘what I want to do right now’,
• Honour agreements I’ve made with others,
• Achieve long-term goals that are important to me, and
• Keep life functioning smoothly enough that I don’t have to drop everything to attend to emergencies of routine matters like no clean clothes.”

Traditional time management techniques work well to fulfill the latter three objectives, but the only way I’ve been able to follow them has been to deaden the part of me that actually has anything meaningful to contribute to my work, my family and friends, and myself – by turning myself into some kind of robot.

So I have spent much of my life alternating between

• a disciplined and half-dead following of “time management” techniques, and
• luxurious bouts of freedom, when I worked to my heart’s content on whatever project was most alive for me at the time.
  While this sounds ideal, it has had significant costs of its own.

For example, most of these bouts of freedom have ended in intense anxiety about other undone projects and tasks; regret and self-reproach at agreements and relationships not cared for in the ways I value; and fear about the negative impacts of my bouts of luxury – in terms of the physical cost of long days of “catching up”, the financial cost of missed opportunities, and the emotional cost of loss of respect and trust from myself and others.

In my decades of attempts to resolve this apparent conflict (which I might describe as an attempt to integrate my left-brain and my right-brain, or the wisdom of both my head and heart), I have read and tried just about every time management book/approach out there, and experimented with just about every type of planner (physical and electronic) and organizational “app” there is.

Out of this wealth of experience, I have, step by step and year by year, found strategies that allow me to be both alive and honour agreements to myself and others. And I have begun to develop a deep understanding of why approaches that seem like they “should” work are simply not maintainable for those of us who are seeking to live from a place of deep and authentic aliveness.

Through this website, I hope to share what I have learned and continue to learn, so that you may enjoy your life most fully, make the unique contributions you are here to make, and experience ease, flow and pleasure in your journey.

Here’s to us both!
Warmly,
🙂
Glenda