My 100 Day Challenge

I hit a milestone on Sunday, July 30th, 2017. It was my 30th birthday, my Golden Birthday. I am no longer a 20-something, searching for her way and her place. I'd like to think I'm moving towards a 30-something who makes her own way and her own place, who is no longer waiting for it to be given to or created for her. 

But I'm definitely not where I imagined I'd be ten years ago. 

I've been in a kind of denial about it since July. Now all of a sudden, it's the middle of the next April, 31 is now much closer than 30, and I feel stagnant. Like I'm holding myself back, but I don't know why anymore.

So I'm making a change

I've never been able to totally jump into the new years resolutions deal because, to me, my new year starts on my birthday. My next birthday is just over 100 days away, so I'm challenging myself to commit to putting myself first at least once every day for the next 100 days. It's a #100daychallenge for self-love and goal-conquering, and I'm calling it #100DaysOfSunshine to illustrate that my primary goal is to recapture and to nurture the aspects of my passion ambition that feed my Sunshine.

100 Days of Sunshine

Commitment

I picked out 3 Life Areas of Focus to prioritize my goals and to specify the Sunshine I want to nurture in my life. I chose Health, Creativity, and Hustle. 

If you're joining me in the challenge, I recommend choosing 2-3 Life Areas of Focus. These areas should reflect one role in your life. If you're a student and you want to focus on your studies and academic performance, you can pick "Academics" as one; or if you're getting ready to graduate and you're looking at internships, entry-level positions, or grad school options, you might pick "Jobs" or "Grad School", or simply the career title you aspire to or the name of a company you want to work for, or a business you may want to start. The area should be specific enough that you're not trying to combine your mother-role goals with your home-improvement goals. The areas you choose can also be a general project that you're working on that can be broken down into tasks/projects over the next 100 days. 

Next, within each of my chosen Life Areas of Focus I defined my Do it Daily Goals and my Whole 100 Days Goals. I decided to divide it up this way because I know that there are routines that I would like to develop within each of my Life Areas of Focus that will help me work towards growth on a daily basis, these are my Do it Daily Goals. Any other general goals or benchmarks that I want to conquer during this challenge are my Whole 100 Days Goals. 

Two-fold Accountability Method

To hold myself accountable for being consistent in working towards these goals in my 100 day challenge, I created a simple tracker in my bullet journal. I made 3x3 boxes for each of the 100 days in my challenge and dated each one. So it's like a calendar but not divided spatially by the number days in a week or by month. To establish a visual division of the days, I outlined my start date and the 1st of each month in a deep purple, weekends in lavender, my upcoming vacation in mint, and weekdays in light grey.

The Method
First, I will shade in one column on the day boxed for each day when I work towards the goals in any life area. For example, if I work towards my Health goals, I will shade in the first column on the appropriate day. If I also work towards my Hustle goals but not my Creativity goal, then I would also shade in the third column of that day but not the second. If I work towards goals in all three of my Life Areas of Focus then that whole day's box will be shaded in. That's the goal!

Second, I will bring you along for the ride by posting about my progress on my social media, specifically my Instagram, Instagram Stories, and here on my Blog. It's a challenge about self-love and growth, so I have to challenge myself to grow outside of my comfort zone. That's the goal!

Join me on the 100 Days of Sunshine Challenge

Sign up for the PeriodicalSunshine (in the sidebar) and you'll receive a special link to my FREE 100 Days of Sunshine Commitment & Tracker PDF worksheets. 

Follow me on social media and join in on the challenge to uncover and nurture your own personal sunshine! Let me know in the comments how you want to improve the most important area of your life. 

 

Things I Love about Myself

Look, we all feel low sometimes. We all face challenges that push us to evaluate who we are, who we want to be, and what we have to offer. That's why there is so much value in reminding ourselves that we are awesome, worthwhile, and enough. I have to remind myself of this consistently, especially the "enough" part. I was teased a lot when I was a kid because I was very confident in my uniqueness, and for how much I've always loved mirrors. People called me conceited when I commented that I love my hair, or that I felt great in an outfit. It was mean, and I internalized the message that it was wrong for me to love who I am. It was clear to me that as a girl, I was expected to be beautiful to have worth, but that I couldn't be mindful of it or proud it. Thank you impossible double standards of the patriarchy. These kind of experiences were the foundation of my feminism. 

But even after I started learning the vocabulary of feminism, I spent many years essentially hiding from my own sunshine, hiding from what has made me who I am, not letting myself be me or my potential because I didn't fit my perception of other people's expectations of me (real and imagined, I'll be the first to admit now). I like to look back on this bullet journal spread when I'm feeling down about myself, or my place in life, or anything really. Even if I can't shake my feelings at the moment when I'm feeling low, at least I can look at this spread and remember that I can be and have been in a more positive head-space. That I am enough. That I have value to add to the world and to the people in it. 

I found this exercise so helpful in my journey for personal growth and balance. I completed it in my Artist of Life workbook at the beginning of the year, then recently I saw it again while going through my old bullet journal. The original exercise in the workbook says to list 10 items for each heading, my goal was to fill the page beautifully. I started with the headings, then just started penciling in characteristics, skills, and tendencies that I love about myself. I had this picture in my mind of this being a beautiful spread of word art and positive elements of me, with minimal color used only to accentuate. That fell apart quickly. My color scheme became a typical expression of Nicole, an eclectic mix. It's still one of my favorite spreads that I've created thus far in my bullet journal journeys. 

I really encourage you to complete this exercise too. It will feel weird at first because we're taught from day one to be confident but not vain, and the line between those seems to be defined by everyone outside of ourselves. I say screw that. Be proud of your strengths, embrace the things you love about yourself.

 

Things I Love About Myself

How I can get lost in the beautiful details of everyday life. I am a "stop and smell the roses" kind of woman. I love the way that I can get lost in the details of how the light and shadow move across the wisps and masses of clouds, or the variance in size and color of the petals on a budding or blossoming flower. 

Long purple hair. I colored my hair purple in February 2016. At first I added  few chunky streaks at the bottom and middle of my head, buuuuuuuuut that didn't last long. I loved it so much I dyed the rest all purple within a few weeks. I have always loved my long dark hair, but when it's purple it gives me life. 

My sense for aesthetic. Function will always take primacy for me, but aesthetic is like a 1B to function's 1A status. This is the artist and color obsessor in me, I just love for things to look nice. Over the years, I've even developed a particular, yet eclectic sense of style or personal aesthetic. 

The joy I feel blending colors. Ah! I find utter delight and joy in blending colors, whether is be acrylic or water-color paint, hair dye, chalk pastels, colored pencil, eyeshadow, or body paint. Blending colors gives me life.

Creativity. Art, creativity, expression, and curiosity have been integral in my life for as long as I can remember. When I'm not engaging in these values, I get lost and low. "Art is why I get up in the morning, and my definition ends there" (-Ani DiFranco).

My lips, smile, and eyes. My facial features resemble my mother more every day, and I treasure that. I have always loved my mother's smile and the first time someone told me I have her smile, my soul beamed with delight. I love to play up my features with makeup, but regardless of how little or much makeup I apply, these are my favorite features on my face. With all the "body positivity" messaging going on these days (which of course  I support wholeheartedly), I think it's important to remember to see and appreciate the beauty in our faces as well. 

Natural rhythm. I started dancing around as soon as I could maneuver my body to sway and tap my feet as a toddler. I used to dance in school, but haven't since after my first year in college. But that has never stopped me from feeling music throughout my whole body. I love going to see live music to dance, even if I'm the only one out on the floor. Actually some of my most rewarding and treasured friendships have developed out of a mutual love for dancing. 

My love for etymology & linguistics. I'm a giant word-nerd. The first time I heard the word etymology I was fascinated and enticed to learn more. In high school, my junior AP English class had a semester long assignment to research and write an essay about a word. I totally credit my love of language, linguistics, poetry, etymology, sentence patterns, and literary devices to this assignment and this class. The process of delving so far into the history, usage, and philosophies of my word ignited a lifelong curiosity of the context in which we learn to use and understand language, for poetry and music as well as for general communication. I just love words. I have favorite words just for their acoustic or tone aside from their meaning. 

The feeling when I sing my heart out on stage. There is nothing like being on a stage, under the hot and bright lights, microphone in hand, performing my heart out. I knew I loved being on stage from a young age, I always loved to perform. My first part in a performance was in the fourth grade. We learned and performed an original musical called "Mr. C and the Gang" by our theatre teacher, Mr. Krein. He was a delight. He pushed me out of my shell and forced me to find my stage voice. To this day, it doesn't matter what's going on in my life or my head; if I can get onto a stage, I can pour my heart out through my voice. 

Compulsive incorporation of color. I love color. I love the whole rainbow. I have the most difficultly not using all of the colors. I love the aesthetic of a neutral grays or black and white color scheme, but I am incapable of leaving it there, I need color. I live for color coding and blending and matching and naming. I love color. I've said i too much at this point. But really, it gives me life.

My Major Strengths

Curious nature. I'm a curious, creative, and inquisitive person. I'm a questioner, a skeptic, an analyzer. I always want to know more, know more context, more definitions, more bios, more variables to help me put new information into context for deeper understanding. 

Big ideas. I'm a big idea kinda gal. I love pondering on a macro scale, but when I notice that my big ideas becoming more utopian, it is important for me to pull myself back to the everyday, to the minute, to the specific experiences of every day people and communities. Big ideas are only as good as they influence the little parts in a positive way. 

Intersectional connections. These top three factors play into each other so much it was honestly difficult for me to parse them apart under separate items. I'm curious, I'm big picture context thinking, and I make connections constantly. That's how I learn about the world, other people, and myself. The vast scope of information that I have learned and continue to seek out comes from so many fields, disciplines, and perspectives that I cannot help but make intersectional connections. I mean, that's basically the definition and point of the concept of context. It's not enough to know what a thing is or means, to truly learn from that event or fact one must inquire and understand its significance. What is it, what does it mean, as well as why it is important. I could go on about this for a while...

Eternal optimism. I always try to see the bright side of things. I actually view optimism as more adaptive survival skill than pessimism. To me, optimism is not about being stuck in the clouds and only seeing the good things while ignoring the bad; it's more like not getting stuck in a defeatist mentality that nothing matters or nothing can be done to make something better. Being optimistic is a coping mechanism that helps me deal with hard times or low moments in my life. It pushes me to grow rather than wallow.

Creativity. Clearly my love and passion for creativity is super important and empowering to me, as it appears on both sides of this spread. In the section above, I talked about why I love exploring and expressing creativity. Here, I want to talk about why it is a strength in my life. My proclivity for creativity empowers me to find solutions and processes outside of the expected or traditional routes. 

Passion. I feel my feelings, my ambitions, my sorrows, and everything else deeply. If I'm in it, I'm all in, but on the other hand if I'm not really interested, it is very hard for me to engage. To me, passion is about acting with fervor, intent, and excitement. My passion is about finding, engaging, and enjoying what I love to do.

Sensitivity. What can I say, "I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way" -Jewel, Everyday Angels

Empathy. As much as I am a sensitive person, I am also sensitive to the feelings and perspectives of others. This comes naturally but only magnified as I learned the theories, perspectives, and vocabulary of psychology in college. I love people, and I care deeply about the perspective and experience of those that I love. 

Giving nature. I get this from my mother, in a major way. She has always said about giving and just being there for people in general, "if I can, then I will." I've taken this philosophy to heart in my life and relationships. I'm a care taker, what can I say?

Natural rhythm. So why is this a strength as well as something I just love about myself? I suppose I could say that the way I feel music through my whole body and mind and essence set my life on the artistic track. Being obsessed with dancing from a young age, I always felt artistic expression as a whole body experience and process. My introduction to arts and creative expression was always from that place of process and immersion in the experience, stemming always from finding a rhythm in the everyday sounds and music of life.

Giant heart. I'm a big 'ol softy. I care wholeheartedly.

Organizational aptitude. This is simple, and that's why I call it my strength. I am good at organizing. I attend to function and to aesthetic, but everything comes back to how easy it is to maintain, to put things back. That is the key to organization.

PHEW! That was even more challenging that the original exercise of just making lists. I recommend this exercise of the lists first, then follow up by a short explanation for one or two list items on days you're feeling low. This post took me much longer to finish that I expected because it hit me while in a weird and somewhat low headspace. But in the end, I'm so glad that I did it. I highly recommend this exercise, and send a big thank you to Lavendaire for this exercise in the Artist of Life Workbook.

Let me know in the comments what are your favorite things about yourself and major strengths that give you pride in yourself.

Level 10 Artist of Life - Setting Goals

I don't know who came up with the Level 10 Life but I've seen it everywhere for a long time and when I saw Kara's from BohoBerry, I had to try it, but I knew I wanted to make a few changes. At this time I was getting ready to move into a new Bullet Journal, so I was also getting ready to re-visit some of my Artist of Life (by Lavendaire) spreads. Here is my twist on the two. This spread took two 2-page spreads. I used one for my chart and quick lists for my brainstorm-evaluation of each life area.

I used a circular chart to visually display the areas and my scoring. I didn't do any kind of scientific scoring here, I did what I felt based on my little +/- lists under each area and how much I weighted each item on those lists. When faced with a color coding task...I cannot help myself but use the rainbow. It never even occurred to me to create a one or two color scheme until I saw versions like that on Pinterest. 

The second spread was dedicated to a more specific goals in each area. I always use the SMART method when creating and evaluating goals—Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound. I required myself to come up with at least three actionable goals under each life area. Some were major, some were sort of "easy wins", but I believe it's important to build or grow into major goals, sometimes that means breaking big goals into little goals.

I thoroughly enjoyed this exercise. I love having a visual to understand something, and to set specific goals, it was really helpful for me to separate them out in the same way I did with the Artist of Life workbook so that I could use all that work I put into the original goal spreads I made in my old bujo. I am a little behind in my mid-year review and update because mid-year I did a lot of traveling and then all of a sudden it's my birthday and I'm turning 30-years old! I will surely update my goals using this method though because I love the categorization and the ease with which I can utilize color and format.

 

Artist of Life in my Bullet Journal

I found the Artist of Life workbook at the end of 2016, when Aileen Xu announced it on her YouTube channel, Lavendaire. I had been following Aileen for a few months and loved her airy, passionate, and artistic aesthetic and perspective. This workbook caught my attention because I was on a research mission for year-end reflection methods. I found a lot that were great, and so many that were the same thing over and over. I was drawn to the Artist of Life workbook because of the wide array of life that was covered, the goal formation and accountability, and of course, the emphasis on creating and pursuing life artistically.

So, after re-watching Aileen's video about how she created it and everything she included in it, I bought the workbook PDF. Still loving and experiencing benefits from that decision.

She included some awesome exercises—saying goodbye to the last year and hello to the previous, designing habits and self care routines, creating a bucket list for 2018, and others. There's also a very in depth goal-setting series, and an apparatus for planning & accomplishing those goals individually and on a monthly basis. It had a good mix of things I'd seen a million times before, elements I 'd seen before but she either simplified of specified them, and things I hadn't ever seen and was so excited to complete! 

As soon as the download completed, I started perusing through it page by page, noticing how much I was already planning out what I wanted to write in each tidy little box. But I wanted more control over the layout...and I had just recently started exploring bullet journalling. So naturally, a fusion ensued. I decided that instead of printing it out and filling it in, or typing everything into the dynamic PDF—that felt way too removed from the process of reflection for which I was yearning. 

I started by labeling in pencil how many pages I needed to mark out for each of the Artist of Life exercises. Then really just, went for it. 

Positive Self-Evaluation

I rearranged the exercises to make a little more flow sense to my mind. After setting a theme/word for the new year, I decided to start the series with a couple of exercises from the Self Care section in the workbook. 

Pondering My Major Strengths and Things that I Love about Myself at first seemed like a redundant practice, but I'm glad I took the time to think about the distinction. I showed the natural overlap by writing those things around the middle, although I definitely wrote "creativity" on both sides of the spread. I used words and phrases that captured my skills, inclinations, and characteristics. I tried to use mostly black with accents of color, but that went out the window right away—hence the phrase, "compulsive incorporation of colors".

Opening One and Closing Another

Something that seemed so natural and obvious, but I hadn't seen it put in such a way that really struck a chord with me, was the Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017. I loved the way Aileen broke down the year into important moments categorized into positive as well as constructive frames. I gave each salutation its own 2-page spread so I could fully explore the exercise.

I found the space in the so-long to 2016 to help me remember the year more positively than I had been, it was a rough year in a lot of ways. But I made it through and after completing the "goodbye" I felt empowered and exhilarated to say my "hello" to the new year. I enjoyed the simple components of the "hello" exercise because they made me focus my general goals that were more like broad-strokes at the point. 

Designing Habits and Routines

I had seriously high hopes about this section, but when I starting following this particular section, it felt lacking for my specific method. Designing habits and routines is something I've struggled with for a significant portion of my life. I'm always trying to find a better way. This section in the workbook would be sufficient for many, I'm sure, but it fell short for me in space more than anything—I'm almost certain that was one of the deciding factors for completing the workbook in my bullet journal. The general approach is excellent though, simple and to the point, but thoughtful. This approach actually reminds me a little of the KonMarie method of decluttering. Basically, the task is to evaluate habits as either those you want to keep and those you want to release. I would add a section for habits you want to flourish or implement. For routines, Aileen discusses habit stacking to think of routines as a stack of habits, great tool. Still use it, check out my post about designing daily, weekly, and work-flow routines.

Setting Goals

This section was one of my favorites in the workbook. Aileen divided the Goals section up by areas in life—personal growth, career (which I changed to professional), creative, health, relationships, home, spirituality (which I changed to personal balance), money, adventure, and ultimate life goals. I also added a section for civic and community engagement because that is an important area in my life that I used to exercise much more and had lost touch with since graduating from college.

What I really enjoyed about this section was that each life area had specific questions to reflect and evaluate priorities and then set specific goals to meet or push those priorities to a new level. I tweaked an added some things here an there, but my favorite part of re-creating the Artist of Life workbook in my bullet journal was reflecting the need of the questions for each area with the format of the spread.

The Goal Book is at the end of the workbook and provides a space to basically house the list of action items needed to complete a goal, to indicate priority, and to set deadlines for each goal. This is one of those simple,yet tremendously useful features in the workbook. There are also Monthly Reviews to check-in with each goal. I added a number rating system to give me an immediate evaluation of how I've been progressing towards my goals.

Current Me—Future Me

OK, so Aileen calls this exercise "Current me vs. Future me". Now while I LOVE this exercise, I don't love the language. Personally, I think that using the "vs" form connotes a competitive perspective or approach, which can hinder a positive growth-centered approach to self-evaluation. I would just use a long-dash to show a point of comparison without ranking. Gloria Steinem once said, "we are all linked, not ranked," and I think that can be applied in self-reflection and evaluation. 

In my 2-page spread for this exercise, after completing each side, I spent time looking at each item on each page and finding the links, the behavior transitions I will need to make in order to reach the goals and vision that I see for myself in some undetermined, open time-frame and place. I love coming back to this spread and seeing what's changed and how I have moved towards my Future Me.

Moving Forward

I love this system. It provides such a malleable but deeply reflective structure with which to create meaningful and focused goals, AND to keep a record of actions an accountability to envision and create a more meaningful, fulfilling, grateful, and artistic life. I will continue to carry these exercises with me through my bullet journals, blogging, creative, and entrepreneurial visions and ventures.  

Let me know in the comments below which of these exercises you're most looking forward to completing, or enjoyed creating the most. 

Note. The version of the Artist of Life Workbook that I bought and adopted was the 2017 edition, starting in January, ending in December. At the time of this blog post, she has not yet released the next version for 2018, but I'm sure she will have that later this year. Keep an eye on her site to stay updated.

Evolution of my Weekly Bullet Journal Spread

I started bullet journaling in the fall of 2016. I've tried to make journaling a habit for at least two decades at this point. I've also struggled a lot with finding a functional, flexible, and aesthetically pleasing way to manage my time and keep track of my goals. I literally have a box full of partially completed random scribbles of schedules, dear diary-type entries in which I pour out my heart or contemplate the absurdity of human behavior and social order systems, and random poetic verses commenting on those contemplations. I feel lucky and super thankful when there's a date or obviously dating content so I can transport back in time for a moment. Of course sometimes I'll come across mortifying moments, but after that initial feeling of reliving that anguish, I like to remind myself of how that moment contributed to developing who I am today, and who I continue to strive to be.

Clearly, my life and my records of it are all over the place and I've been on a hunt for a better way for as long as I can remember. 

ENTER. Bullet Journaling and BohoBerry on YouTube. I'm pretty sure I started seeing bullet journal spreads on Pinterest, but it could've been recommended videos on YouTube from the planner ladies that I follow. I was super curious when it started popping up in my feeds and fell in love with the basic elements of the bullet journal system and the flexibility to change formats and express my creativity as much or as little as I desire...or have time to create

A note about weekly spreads

I actually didn't use weekly spreads when I first started bullet journaling. I had a month at a glance view, some monthly trackers, and my rapid log daily spreads. OK, they weren't strictly rapid log, I was inspired early on by BohoBerry's time bar and easy faux-calligraphy, but they were basically just my daily task and appointment lists. If you're interested in a post about my daily tracking journey, let me know in the comments.

My Weekly Spreads

Once I started using a weekly spread in my regular planning I realized that I really wanted to fit a lot onto it. This is pretty characteristic sunshine behavior, if I'm gonna do it, I'll over do it. That's how you know you're alive (comment below if you know that reference).

So in this weekly spread I included:

  • color code

  • mini-month at a glance

  • week at a glance view with wake/sleep time, workout, a space to note activity on a blog I had not yet created, and a space to note activity on my Instagram

  • time bar with my time management goal represented in the aforementioned color code

  • task box

  • project box

  • next week box

  • dinners of the week box

  • habit tracker

I mean, maybe someone else can manage a planner layout like this, but I am not that woman. It was just too busy. I like tracking habits and planning out my days based on my task list but this layout was just too busy for me.

Balancing Week-Day Planning

These two spreads are from April 2017, and you can see how much I love the flexibility in format in this journaling method. The elements that I listed above are more or less consistent with a few variations. Here, I'm still trying to figure out my needs and usage of the weekly tracking, week at a glance planning, and daily pages.

I love my little mini-month. I like the time bar, although at this point whether or not I colored it was sporadic. I use it more as a guide than a goal.

In the daily breakdown, I added notes for tracking gratitude, reading, and music listening. I extended my tracking list A LOT. Apparently I'm still learning my lesson about overwhelming myself. In addition to the tasks, projects, and notes boxes, I added a box to make specific goals for creativity. This was one of my best innovations to my weekly spreads. Overall, I really liked having my goals, boxes, and lists on a separate page from my week at a glance.

This picture reminds me why I should shoot pictures outside more. This week I decided I didn't have to use up more room on my weekly spread if I was just filling space to fill space with unnecessary or just too much planning/tracking for me to actually utilize. So I condensed my week at a glance into a little horizontal list, called it my Day 2 Day section, and wrote up my cleaning schedule, music practice and creative time goals. Then I just went straight into my daily planning.

Simplifying the Layout

From May through July, I really wanted to simplify my layout. I loved the elements in my spreads, but it still felt too busy. I also missed having a space to note my gratitude, without being bound to a daily note. It's something I like to think of daily, and one I like to see on a grander scale than in my daily pages, but not quite so physically distant from my daily pages as my monthly spreads. What you don't see in this first image is my tracker and my gratitude section. I basically divided the blank space on the left into two sections horizontally. The page on the left became home to my week at a glance and my tasks, projects, notes, and horizon boxes. These list boxes performed many a switch-a-roo over the course of May and June. The elements remained the same though. 

By mid-July, I think I made a breakthrough. For the last few months I fell off the habit of using color in my BuJo. I also moved and took a cross-country road trip vacation to the west coast...so the regular planning changed a bit. In July I found my footing again and made some GREAT changes.

At this point, my time bar has moved from only on my daily pages, to the middle of my weekly spread, then to the top, and now to the left border of my weekly spread. In order to fit all 24-hours on the 38-space dot grid of my Leuchtturm 1917, I use only one space for sleeping hours, and two for awake/working hours. I, of course, have my mini-month and my dinner plan. I have my gratitude, notes & horizon, and tracker on the left side of the spread. In my gratitude section I either make a little doodle or write a person, idea, experience, or thing, then draw a little heart behind the text. I collapsed my notes and horizon sections together, as I don't usually fill either. I even managed to condense my tracker list significantly.

The right side of my spread houses my week at a glance and my tasks broken into area of my life, rather than type of task. Be Sunshine is for all of my creative, administrative, and professional tasks. My home box is for cleaning tasks and house projects. The personal section is basically for everything else.

Where to from here...

As much as I'm loving my current spread now, I also know how much I loved all the others as I created them. Life is about change, and I like that my planning method is flexible to adapt to that change. 

Share your planning successes and conundrums in the comments below