This season is the perfect time to release what you're finished with and create space for rest, creativity, or whatever has been tapping you on the shoulder lately. Below are a few quick tips to clear away the clutter and invite opportunities for expansion in work and life.
Clean Up Your Calendar
Give your schedule a quick once-over and choose a few things that you can delegate or swap so you can clear space for yourself. Is there something you're super efficient at that you want to do for a colleague and vice versa? Swap it out! Do you have tasks that you've held onto but technically fall under another team member's scope? Give it to them and free up that time!
This works for your home calendar too. Can you ask your partner to take over a chore or enlist a friend to pick up the kiddos? Five minutes here and there can really add up and create space for you to breathe a little - figuratively and literally.
Align Your Schedule
Once you've delegated or flat-out deleted some tasks from your calendar, it can be helpful to start aligning it with your needs for the season. As the days get shorter and colder, do you feel like winding down earlier? Does that also make you want to shift your work out schedule, dinner time or anything else?
Give yourself a moment to think about the natural shifts that happen in your life around this time and any shifts you want to intentionally create this year. Review your calendar from this place of spaciousness, see where you can align your schedule and make those changes now.
Invite New Growth
Each fall, we watch as nature prunes itself to make way for new growth. We can follow this seasonal shift as well. You've already pruned or de-cluttered your schedule and aligned it with your natural and intentional shifts. Here's your next inquiry to ponder:
Is there a new growth opportunity that you want to invite into your life this fall?
Maybe you want to start peeling back those deeper layers in therapy, try a new hobby or go for that promotion. Notice what comes up for you and where you can best add it into your schedule. If you need to create more space for this new growth, review your calendar again and see if anything else is ready to be pruned from it so you can start on that new journey this season.
Hopefully these tips help you to embrace all that this season has to offer us with honoring transitions, releasing what is finished and cultivating new growth with spaciousness!
Feel free to share any of this information with your team to encourage them to take steps towards their wellness goals.
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About the Author:
Tiffany Lord, E-RYT & Yoga Therapeutic Specialist
Corporate Wellness Coach
Resilience + Stress Management Expert
As the founder of Love + Asana, I help busy professionals feel more resilient and and increase agency in their wellness. This all-levels, accessible approach to physical and mental health at work allows employees to easily learn and implement healthy habits during their work day…and feel the benefits ripple out into all areas of life
Since 2016, I’ve had the honor of coaching thousands of employees through virtual sessions and workshops focused on relaxation techniques, mindset, and mobility. My wellness articles have been featured in fyi50+, CO Yoga + Life, and I’m the author of three “Get With Gratitude” journals based on my online workshop series for resilience through a grateful mindset.
I completed a 200-hour training through CorePower Yoga and received my 500-hour Therapeutic Specialist certificate through Yoga Medicine to complement my background in massage therapy and Bachelor’s Degree in International Business with Cum Laude honors from the University of Colorado at Denver. As a Continuing Education Provider with the Yoga Alliance, I share my knowledge of functional movement and the mind-body connection with yoga instructors wanting to deepen their teaching toolkit.