Soulful Productivity & Sunday’s New Moon 🌑 🌕
Let’s replace toxic productivity with soulful productivity!
Today, I wanted to invite you to a date with the next new moon — and a date with your dreams and inspirations for the upcoming cycle.
Our new moon call is this Sunday, August 4, at 3pm ET. This will be short and sweet (~ 45 minutes) and audio-only, so please come as you are. :) There will be a moon-related meditation, and all you need to bring is a pen and paper.
🎁 I’m offering this as a gift so there’s no charge to attend. To get the meeting link, please register HERE,
Why this call? Well, I would love to find a way to bring productivity and spirituality together. And I think the practice of setting intentions with the moon could be a way to do that.
Productivity — now and then
As you might know, I have spent years helping people as a productivity coach. And in that field, linear time traditionally plays a huge role (planners, to-do lists, regular reviews, etc.)
The problem with that? Traditional productivity is pretty bland. It’s all left-brain. It’s all personality and no soul. Mundane, not magic.
Traditional productivity advice is like telling someone how to use their right arm more efficiently — while forgetting that they also have a left arm. (If you have ever broken an arm, you know how helpful it is to be able to use both arms.)
Not only that, but traditional productivity advice can help sustain the toxic idea: that our worth somehow depends on our doing (our accomplishments and achievements) rather than our being (we are worthy simply because we exist).
The way forward
Of course, abandoning productivity advice altogether also isn’t the best solution for most people. After all, you probably do want to do certain things. And there may be things you have to do that you are struggling to complete.
I believe that there must be a better solution than abandoning productivity advice altogether, or resorting to traditional productivity advice.
Enter soulful productivity, a concept I am currently developing and that I’m starting to offer to people. This is a marriage between the magical and the mundane, and a way to get things done that honors the needs of our soul and our squishy human self.
Here’s how I have described the difference between toxic productivity and soulful productivity:
Toxic productivity is when you take action
- on the wrong thing,
- for the wrong reason, or
- in the wrong way.
Soulful productivity is when you do
- the right thing,
- for the right reason, and
- in the right way.
Toxic productivity takes energy. Soulful productivity gives you energy.
How can we be more soulfully productive?
A process that I find immensely valuable in this regard is the practice of setting intentions with the moon. This gives us the benefits of monthly planning, without its downsides.
Unlike monthly planning, moon “intentioning” is magical. It’s fun and it helps connect you to a different timeline. And, because there are 13 new moons in a year (but only 12 months), it even gives you one extra chance to move in the direction you want.
I have been using the moon cycle for intention setting for a long time, and I would love to share this practice with others. If you are interested in attending the call (or listening to the recording), I would love to hear from you:
- What would you like to receive from our Sunday call?
- What are your biggest struggles when it comes to planning/intention-setting?
- Any other suggestions you have for me as I’m structuring this call? For instance, if you have favorite moon-related rituals, I would love to hear them.
Hit reply and let me know! Thanks so much; your input helps me make this call better.
Register for our Sunday call
Warmly,
Louise
P.S.: If you know people who might like to attend, please share this email or this article with them. I’d love to have them join us!
