Are you busy filling your new planner, journal, calendar and mind with all you want to do and accomplish this year? Have you been told that unless you plan and state goals, preferably in writing, you won’t get anywhere or meet your dreams?
Certainly list making has advantages; checking each to-do off feels good and is it’s own reward…we all need rewards. But I suggest that you relegate the list planning to short term, daily or weekly to-dos, and not the whole month, year, big picture 
and all the steps that go into making it happen. Unless you are an architect fo something, all this planning will shut your down and keep you trapped inside.
When you over plan, you are severely limiting your intuition, gut, sixth sense, or higher self Spirit help you. These are unseen entrances to your personal and collective inner vision. Inner vision is much expanded clarity and insight; stretching the vision, and image of your self and your place in the big picture bigger, wider, and deeper.
Your intuition and brain need a gap of time, seconds to minutes, to get through to your thoughts, actions and feelings. The gap happens when you listen, slow down and take a moment to be still and silent. This is what mindfulness breaks are all about. T
ake them during the day and evening whenever you can. You’ll benefit even more over time from engaging the mind by disengaging the mind 1 to 5 minutes at a time.
Let your imagination go free for the big stuff. Let your dreams come from a limit-free place inside your brain, heart, expanded consciousness, intuition and Spirit, if that resonates with you too.
Your left brain will handle the details and the deadlines- it loves to do this anyway, so trust it to take over and get things prioritized and done. If you must make a list, keep it to a couple of words per line that summarize the concept of what needs to be remembered and a deadline date if there is one. Try not relying on it and see how well your left hemisphere plays secretary for your life. Use a pop-up or sound notification on your computer or phone for actual appointments. Use technology to your advantage, letting your memory work on what you need it to remember instead.
Albert Einstein came to believe that our imagination is more powerful than knowledge and more important too. If you would like to learn more about using your whole brain, contact me. I give workshops, presentations and one-on-one consulting on Using your Whole Brain to Navigate the Life Your Create.
Then focus on what is in front of you when wondering what to do next. Do what has presented itself to you. This Way of proceeding is as old as the Tao. Trusting and being in the present keeps anxiety and worry at bay…out of the way.
With the stress response and accompanying chemicals under wraps, you will be calm and focused on what you are doing facilitating your getting it done effectively and quicker than if mental worry or physical tension interrupt your flow. Let your imagination take center stage you have found the door to freedom. I’ll tell you how to get there in the next blog post. Sign up for email versions or RSS feeds in the upper right side of this page.
Wishing you a beautifully lived unplanned day,
Kim
