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3 Steps to Sensual Planning for 2013 Hello. Bonjour. This is Tara Marino with Elegant
Femme. Happy New Year! So yes here we are. It’s a gorgeous, beautiful,
clear day in France. I’m hearing the rooster crow at the bottom of the mountain saying
good day. I want to talk to you a bit about planning. Here we are right, and it’s beginning;
you can feel the pressure mounting; you can feel the push; what’s this year going to
be like for you. So I want to share with you how I myself plan,
and how I encourage you to plan, and its called Sensual Planning. I’m actually going to
be sharing with you in this video the first 3 steps of Sensual Planning. There are actually
7 steps, and I will share the first 3 with you so that you can begin to plan this year
in a way that actually supports you. Enough with the overwhelm; enough with the anxiety;
look I got to be really real with you here. I have had a love-hate relationship with planning
for the majority of my life, and I would say in the past couple of years I’ve gotten
really clear and more aware and conscious of how I’ve reacted to planning, and I want
to tell you what those reactions were because you might even be able to relate to them and
see yourself in them. So, I react to planning in one of two ways;
I either over plan; got really anxious, worried, over- organized; and I do believe that there
is a way you can be over-organized; just really frantic and contracted; I want to be doing
this, this day, and this, this day; and I build this really intense kind of expectation
and pressure; you know what I mean? So that’s one of the ways I’ve reacted to planning
in the past. And then the other way I’ve reacted, which
has been more recent for me, was not planning at all. Now when I say not planning at all,
I don’t mean not having any idea, but really very loose planning; not committing, non-committal
planning, have you done that before where you don’t really commit; we’ll maybe I’ll
go this day, or maybe I’ll do it this day, everything open? Here is the trap that you
can fall into with that type of un-planning is that it does keep expectations really low,
which is something that I liked so that you can over-deliver, but there is no structure,
so it really does provide kind of a nebulous void.
So neither of those types of reactions to planning support us as women, okay. There
is a very masculine way to planning that so many of us have been taught, which is that
really constricted; we got to do this every minute, know it right, really masculine type
of planning. And then the other one is how we feel sometimes we need to be as women;
just no plans; go with the flow. There is a middle ground. There is a middle ground
that I want to share with you and it’s called Sensual Planning so that you can have the
strategic support of your masculine when you’re planning, and the free open space of the feeling
and intuition that we require as women to support us during the year, okay.
So, the first 3 steps of Sensual Planning: Number 1, you need to set your intention for
the year. Now I’m huge on this, and before you go oh boy here we go with that intention
thing again; there she goes with the intention thing; I’m really big on this, and if you’re
feeling that ah I’ve heard this intention thing before; I want you to ask yourself have
you done it; have you set your intention for 2013? Sometimes we set our intention for the
day. Sometimes we set our intention for a specific event. Have you allowed yourself
to set your intention for the entire year? Now if, you’re saying yes I did that but
did you really? I’m not just talking a fleeting thought in your head that said yes I want
2013 to be the best year yet; I want to be healthy; have you actually written it down?
Have you sat down in a concerted effort and felt into how you want this year to support
you, and then invoking that energy creating intentions to physically for you that is going
to support you during the year? It’s is the first step. Before you do anything else;
before you flag in anything else in your calendar; anything else, set your intentions for the
entire year. That’s step 1, okay. Step 2, and this is part of my formula; something
I’ve been doing; something I share with women inside the Elegant Femme community,
and we’re actually be going into further detail in the Sensual Planning Day that is
coming up, and that is setting your theme for every month. Now what do I mean by that?
This is a process that actually incorporates the Femme types; incorporates the Frenchie,
the Indie and the New Yorker. We are going to be setting a theme for every month. So,
let me give you an example: say for January, and this is something that you need to be
aware of, not over thinking, not over thinking, okay? You want to ask your New Yorker okay
what’s my theme for January? Maybe she says organize. Your theme for January for your
New Yorker is going to be organized as an example. Your Frenchie, perhaps it’s beauty;
perhaps it’s beauty for your Frenchie for your theme for January. And then your Indie,
maybe it’s deep; maybe according to your Indie Femme type you want to be deep in January.
So then you would have 3 things for January; one for your New Yorker, organize; one for
your Frenchie, beauty; and one for your Indie which is deep. This doesn’t take a lot of
time, and you don’t have to over think it. This is sitting with yourself, looking at
the calendar of January, my New Yorker theme, my Indie theme and my Frenchie theme. This
is so, so important because as we get into further steps within Sensual Planning; as
we get into some of the other steps; you’ll see how this plays a very vital role in assisting
you in making decisions that are going to support you throughout the year. So your themes
are very, very important, okay. So we have step 1; we have step 2; step 3
is what? Step 3 is making a short list of what it is you want to experience this year.
I want you to sit down; just 5 minutes; you can even set your time around your iPhone
if you want to, and write down the things you desire to experience this year. This is
something that for so many of us is an afterthought. We plan everything that we are supposed to
do on the calendar, and then wait a minute where am I on the calendar; where is time
for me? This is the 3rd step in Sensual Planning; you’ve got to do it in this order so that
you feel the support that you require as a woman. Maybe you want to take ballet lessons;
maybe you want to travel to France or Italy; maybe you want to reconnect with a specific
love one; what is it that you desire to experience this year, okay.
So those are the top 3 steps to Sensual Planning. Now I’m going to be sharing all 7 steps,
and we’re going much deeper, in fact, into even steps 1, 2 and 3 this Saturday. For the
first time ever, we’re doing Sensual Planning Day; it’s going to be my first time on live
stream; we’re going to see how that goes. I’m going to be spending 3 hours with you,
assisting you in planning your year 2013 in a sensual way. Our focus is going to be on
beauty, on power, and on clarity; and I’m going to walk you through all 7 steps in Sensual
Planning so that at the end of those 3 hours, you’re going to have your sensual plans
for the year. It’s going to be fabulous. So if, you haven’t joined us yet for Sensual
Planning, there is going to be a link down here for you to do that with us. It’s going
to be a one-time only event. So you want to make sure that you register, and you get your
spot. Now, I would love to know what your tips are
for planning. What are some of your tips for planning the year? How do you do that for
yourself? Go ahead and leave a comment below and I look forward to talking and interacting
with you in the Sensual Planning Day this Saturday. Bye, bye.
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