Tools for bits of creative planning {and doing}

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. ~Goethe

There are a number of baby-step changes I have made to adapt to living with a roller coaster level of energy and mental focus: index cards, my “right brain planner” art cards, Post-it® notes, timers and even a 3×3 wooden frame for {micromovement} gardening!

Tammy of Daisy Yellow started a marvelous index-card-a-day challenge last summer! I love it! One card. Every day.

I created collages, upcycled cards {from various card-like elements, including coupon cards, product packaging and a restaurant’s promo table tent — to name a few!} and 2.5 months of creative and practical art!

Because {most days} the flip side of my cards recorded To-Do’s, journal entries, mind maps, lists and basically: all things right brain planning! I have always utilized different sizes of index cards for personal and business planning, but now these cards are much more appealing! And stored in Starbucks Via boxes and candy boxes and.or included in my altered book and planner pages.

I cannot change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ~Jimmy Dean

My rocket man constructed this small wooden frame for me so I could focus on a 3′x3′ area at a time — instead of becoming overwhelmed with pruning, weeding or otherwise clearing my overgrown gardens. {Due to MS, I have to limit physical exertion and my time outside, especially in the summer heat.}

I view acceptance as a creative frame: a way of assessing limits in “frames” … resisting the urge to allow such things to be limitations {restrictions}.

Having frames, tangible and in my mind’s eye, allow me to have a realistic {easy to decipher} way of coping {and overcoming}. That was definitely reinforced for me during my “Month of One” focus in May; and in keeping a one-word journal this month, allowing less to be more or certainly enough.