Plan for what you want. Prepare for what you can’t predict.
A one-day planning intensive + strategy ritual to get your whole life in view, decide what matters, and build a plan that can meet changing conditions.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
11:30am-5:45pm Eastern · Live online
[PRICE] · [EARLY RATE] through [DATE]
You can be extraordinarily good at stewarding your life without becoming more machine-like in the process.
You do not need to overcome your ADHD, your changing body, your caregiving responsibilities, your health, your creative rhythms, your sensitivity, or your inconvenient tendency to have twelve excellent ideas at once before you are finally allowed to have your shit together.
Those things are not glitches in the system.
They are conditions to plan with.
Because good planning isn't about predicting the future correctly.
It's knowing:
what you want,
what you're working with,
what it will take,
what belongs when,
and what you'll do when conditions change.
That's what we'll build together in The Living Almanac.
By the end of the day, you’ll know:
where i am
The seasons and cycles you're living inside, what's beginning, growing, ripening, ending or resting—and what those conditions are asking of you.
WHAT I WANT
What you actually want to accomplish, experience, nurture, build, make, earn, protect and enjoy.
WHAT IT WILL TAKE
The real time, energy, attention, money, care, support, recovery and infrastructure your plans require.
WHAT BELONGS WHEN
What happens now, next, later—or not this year at all.
WHAT MY INTUITION SAYS
What you know beyond what the spreadsheet and calendar can tell you.
HOW I'LL MEET WHAT CHANGES
The support, margin, buffers and practices that help you adapt when your capacity changes, the plan changes, or life throws something at you that nobody could have put on the calendar.
By 5:45, the next year won't be one enormous pile of THINGS I SHOULD PROBABLY FIGURE OUT.
You'll have an Almanac.
An almanac is a different kind of planning tool.
Farmers have long used almanacs to understand the conditions they're working with and make better decisions about what belongs when.
Not because they can predict everything.
Quite the opposite.
Because they can't.
You can know the season.
You can know the land.
You can know what's been planted.
You can watch the patterns.
You can prepare your resources.
You can make a very good plan.
And then:
weather.
A living system requires both planning and responsiveness.
So does a living life.
Most of us were taught to plan as though the goal were to eliminate uncertainty:
Choose the goal.
Reverse engineer it.
Put the steps on the calendar.
Execute.
Useful, sometimes.
Except your life contains a body.
And other people.
And changing energy.
And school calendars and caregiving and money and grief and hormones and creativity and opportunities and illnesses and brilliant ideas that arrive four months later than requested.
The Living Almanac doesn't ask you to overcome those conditions in order to follow the plan.
We put them in the plan.
First, we learn to read the season
And here's where it gets interesting:
You can be in several seasons at once.
Your work may be in summer.
Your body may be asking for winter.
Your family may be moving through a threshold.
Your book may be barely in spring.
So we don't only ask:
What season is it?
We ask:
What season am I in—and what does that season ask of me?
That's not poetic garnish.
That's strategic information.
A year is not twelve interchangeable boxes.
And neither are you.
Living things move through cycles of:
beginning · growth · expression · harvest · decline · dormancy · return
Different seasons have different work.
There are times to begin and experiment.
Times to grow and tend.
Times to be visible, sell and share.
Times to harvest, consolidate, finish, reuse and gather what has already grown.
Times to repair, dream, gestate and leave the damn field alone.
Then we make your Living Almanac
Six movements.
One actual map.
1. HERE'S WHERE I AM
Before deciding where you're going, we locate you accurately.
We'll look at the year you've actually lived—not merely the one you planned.
What grew?
What worked?
What changed?
What's ripe?
What's unfinished but still alive?
What's actually complete?
What are you ready to stop carrying?
Then you'll locate the seasons of your body, life, work, relationships, creativity and important projects.
Where are they aligned?
Where are they asking different things of you?
What do you know about your rhythms now that you didn't know a year ago?
You leave this part knowing the conditions you're planning from.
2. HERE'S WHAT I WANT
Before everybody else's commitments get first dibs on the year, you do.
What do you want to:
accomplish?
experience?
nurture?
build?
make?
earn?
protect?
enjoy?
We'll distinguish enough from wonderful and name the kind of year you absolutely do not want to accidentally create again.
Because the goal isn't to fit more into your life.
It's to make room for what matters.
3. HERE'S WHAT IT WILL TAKE
Desire needs resources.
So for the things that matter, we'll ask:
How much time does this actually require?
What kind of energy?
What's its real footprint on your attention?
What does it cost?
What does it need to earn?
What care will you need?
Who helps carry it?
What support or infrastructure needs to exist?
What recovery belongs afterward?
And before you make one more thing:
What do you already have?
The workshop.
The body of work.
The relationship.
The audience.
The idea that's already 70% developed.
The offer people keep asking for.
The system that's working.
You may not need another warehouse.
You may need to harvest the one you're already standing in.
And yes: we do the money.
Not “abundance.”
The money.
What do you need?
What do you want?
What's already accounted for?
What's the gap?
Where can it come from?
What needs to happen before you need it?
And:
Does the way you're planning to make the money fit the life you're planning to live?
Because “make $20K in December” isn't particularly useful if December also contains three holidays, two birthdays, houseguests, zero selling and a body begging you to lie down.
Better to notice that in September.
4. HERE'S WHAT BELONGS WHEN
Now the big calendar comes out.
First, the knowns:
Birthdays.
School.
Travel.
Holidays.
Caregiving.
Medical things.
Existing work.
Deadlines.
Events.
Launches.
Family commitments.
Everything already spoken for.
Then we bring in:
your desires
your money
your work
your capacity
your care
your recovery
your seasons
your support.
And start making decisions.
What belongs in autumn?
What needs to happen before winter?
What is winter actually good for?
What gets seeded now but doesn't need to emerge until spring?
Where are the making periods?
Where are the money-making periods?
Where are the visible periods?
Where are the recovery periods?
Where is rest?
And, importantly:
Where is nothing?
Not “white space” that secretly means catch up on seventeen things.
Actual space.
For changing your mind.
For getting sick.
For an opportunity you couldn't have anticipated.
For doing absolutely nothing useful.
For weather.
We plan at the resolution the distance allows.
The next few months can be fairly specific.
Early next year gets meaningful shape.
Farther away gets landmarks, seasons and major movements.
We are not deciding what you're doing at 2:15pm on June 17th.
Future You has rights.
As you get closer, you increase the resolution.
Your Almanac is a living map, not a contract with a person who existed nine months ago.
5. HERE'S WHAT MY INTUITION SAYS
After the numbers and calendars, we change instruments.
Tarot or oracle cards if you use them.
Astrology.
Poetry.
Art.
Images.
Instinct.
Body knowing.
Whatever doorway works for you.
Not instead of strategy.
Alongside it.
We'll ask:
What else do I know?
What am I not seeing?
What wants protection?
What wants to emerge?
What quality wants to accompany this season?
And then we'll put that information back onto the Almanac.
Your spreadsheet and your tarot deck are allowed to be colleagues.
6. HERE'S MY PLAN FOR MEETING WHAT CHANGES
This is the part most planning systems leave out.
Some weather is predictable.
You may already know that:
December is harder.
Travel takes more out of you than the days actually marked “travel.”
You need recovery after launches.
Your body has lower-capacity stretches.
Certain times of year bring more caregiving, work, family or emotional demand.
If we know it's coming, it isn't an interruption. It's a condition we can plan for.
So we'll put those things on the map and build in the care, margin, money, support and recovery they require.
And some weather isn't predictable.
Illness.
A family crisis.
A client leaving.
A project taking twice as long.
A financial surprise.
An extraordinary opportunity.
A brilliant idea.
Something ending.
Something beginning.
Life.
You cannot make a sufficiently clever calendar that prevents these things from happening.
But you can become better prepared to meet them.
You'll deliberately build buffers, open weeks, recovery, support and contingency into the year.
And you'll leave with a simple practice for reorienting whenever conditions change:
What changed?
What is still true?
What matters now?
What needs to move?
No throwing the whole plan in the trash.
No deciding you're “bad at consistency.”
No continuing to follow a plan whose underlying conditions no longer exist.
Notice. Reorient. Revise. Continue.
That's what makes it a Living Almanac.
And some things are simply not happening.
This is part of planning too.
Throughout the day, we'll make decisions like:
Not now.
Not this year.
Not mine anymore.
Not unless something else leaves.
Not without more support.
Not at this cost.
Not this way.
Things you still love can go into your Not-Now Garden.
They don't have to die.
They just don't get to consume bandwidth all year by pretending they're about to happen.
At 5:45, you'll have an actual Living Almanac.
Not six hours of insights and forty-two workbook pages you'll never open again.
You'll leave with your:
Current Coordinates — where you are and the seasons you're in.
Desire Map — what you want this season and year to contain.
Resource + Money Map — what your plans require and how the money works.
Year Map — the rest of 2026 in greater detail + the shape of 2027.
Care + Village Map — the people, systems, support and care that help carry it.
Intuitive Read — integrated into the plan.
Preparedness + Reorientation Plan — your known weather, margin, buffers and process for meeting change.
Not-Now Garden — what you've consciously decided not to carry.
Next Three Moves — what happens in the seven days after we meet.
And one distilled, at-a-glance Living Almanac you can keep where you'll actually see it.
Picture this.
It's November.
Someone sends you an invitation that sounds genuinely wonderful.
Normally you might say yes because you want to—or spend three days wondering whether you “should.”
Instead, you look at your Almanac.
There's the trip the week before.
There's your revenue-producing work.
There's the family thing.
There's the open weekend you deliberately protected because November gets heavy.
You can see what's true before you answer.
Or it's January.
Everyone on the internet has suddenly become a new person with a morning routine.
You have not.
Excellent.
Your year already has bones.
You know what you chose.
You know what winter is for.
Instead of manufacturing an entirely new life because the calendar acquired a different number, you ask:
What's changed since September?
And revise accordingly.
Or it's April and something happens that you genuinely could not have planned for.
You don't need your plan to have predicted it.
You know how to reorient.
That's what I want your Living Almanac to give you.
Not control over your life.
A way to steward it well, even as conditions change.
This is for you if...
You're serious about your work and serious about your life.
You have meaningful things you want to make, earn, contribute, tend, experience and enjoy.
You have more ideas than available Tuesdays.
You like structure but have repeatedly discovered that many systems require you to become a different person to use them successfully.
You have a body, brain, family, creative life, caregiving reality or general mammalian nature that refuses to produce exactly the same amount every week of the year.
You want to become more skillful with your resources, not automatically less ambitious with your desires.
You want your money, care and support to be part of the plan.
You want to plan seriously without pretending you can predict everything.
You want enough structure to know where you're going and the skills to reorient when conditions change.
You'd enjoy a planning intensive where a calculator, a giant calendar and a tarot deck can all be legitimate office supplies.
And you'd very much like to feel like you have your shit together—
without having to become somebody else to do it.
Why do this in autumn?
Because winter has better things to do.
Autumn naturally asks us to look in both directions:
What grew?
And:
What will sustain us through what's coming?
By now, we have enough information about the year to know what actually happened instead of what we intended to happen.
And we can establish enough of next year's structure that January does not have to carry the entire burden of deciding who you are and what your life is for.
Winter can be used for what winter does beautifully:
resting
repairing
dreaming
listening
gestating
seeding.
Then, as the year begins to quicken again, you return to your Almanac.
Read the conditions.
See what's changed.
Increase the resolution.
Adjust.
A changed plan is not a failed plan.
It's a living one.
The day itself is built like the thing I'm teaching.
Meaning I am not going to talk at you on Zoom for six hours about respecting your capacity.
We'll alternate between teaching and working.
Some planning happens together.
Some happens completely off-screen.
There is a real 45-minute lunch.
There are actual breaks.
Cameras are optional.
Every exercise has a clear purpose and endpoint.
You do not have to arrive organized.
Bring the mess. I'll bring the sequence.
The Details
THE LIVING ALMANAC
Plan for what you want. Prepare for what you can't predict.
A one-day planning intensive + strategy ritual to get your whole life in view, decide what matters, and build a plan that can meet changing conditions.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
11:30am–5:45pm Eastern
Live online via Zoom
[PRICE]
[EARLY RATE] through [DATE]
Your registration includes:
The live Living Almanac intensive
The Living Almanac workbook
A printable 2027 year-at-a-glance calendar
Recordings of the teaching portions
Your Living Almanac framework to use and revisit throughout the year
Your note to Winter You, returned to you in January
For Summer on Purpose participants
Come at 10:00am Eastern for our private Summer Harvest before The Living Almanac begins.
Bring something from your summer to our feast.
A piece of writing.
Something you made.
A photograph.
A shift you're proud of.
A lesson.
A slideshow.
A decision.
Evidence of the life you actually lived.
We'll gather what grew, celebrate what ripened, name what remains alive, release what doesn't need to follow you into the next season, and close summer properly.
Then we'll take a break and join everyone else for The Living Almanac.
Your Summer Harvest hour is included.
A few questions
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Perfectly acceptable.
You don't need a planning system before you arrive.
You need whatever calendar you're currently using and the things you know about your life.
I'll bring the process.
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Keep it.
Google Calendar, paper planner, Notion, Asana, wall calendar, the notebook you swear isn't technically your project-management system—all welcome.
The Living Almanac helps you decide what belongs. Your other tools help you carry it out.
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Both.
Your business continues to occur while you're having a body, relationships, responsibilities, desires and occasionally needing to lie down.
We'll plan accordingly.
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No.
Cards, astrology, poetry, art and other imaginal practices are available doorways, not required beliefs.
Nothing else in the intensive depends on using them.
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Especially then.
We're not trying to predict your life.
We're making a thoughtful plan for what you know, preparing for the conditions you can anticipate, and building your capacity to reorient around the things you can't.
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Yes, but not at the same resolution.
We'll make the rest of this year more specific and map the year ahead through major landmarks, movements, seasons, money, care and open space.
You do not need next June's Tuesday to-do list yet.
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The teaching portions will be recorded.
But the real value is giving your life the day and actually making your Almanac.
Come live if you possibly can.
Your nature is not the obstacle to the plan.
It belongs in the plan.
Your ambition belongs there.
Your limits.
Your money.
Your people.
Your work.
Your health.
Your rest.
Your unruly ideas.
Your creative seasons.
Your responsibilities.
Your pleasure.
The things you know.
The things you can only sense.
And the weather you cannot possibly know is coming.
It all counts.
Because having your shit together was never supposed to mean having everything under control.
It means becoming a wise steward of what is yours.
Knowing where you are.
Knowing what matters.
Knowing what it requires.
Knowing what belongs when.
Preparing for the conditions you can see coming.
And knowing how to reorient when the weather changes.
That's what we're making on September 22.