If you feel you steadily struggle with overwhelm or are growing tired of peaks and valleys in your available time and energy, the Monday Made program will help you identify the pieces of your system that are causing the greatest friction. Overwhelm is never quite what it seems. At overwhelm, we are typically working at capacity, yet we tend to believe that we simply need to work a bit harder to get through overwhelm. We undervalue self-health and the function of replenishing, and overvalue our work ethic and hustle.

Whether it's an actual list or a mental narrative, 'should' can be a deeply draining force — particularly a 'should' that you never seem to get around to. I like to reference the Kaizen method popularized by Toyota, and the priority placed on clearing piles. These piles can be physical — a stack of papers you need to organize, or energetic — an important conversation you're putting off, making time for exercise, etc. The 'should' list is an energetic pile. A stack of tasks that lacks the internal motivation and priority to make real, and the longer it remains untouched, the greater its energetic drain. Core to the Monday Made program is clearing these piles by honestly reflecting on the value of your 'should' list with respect to your holistic understanding of self-health and systems alignment, and releasing what doesn't fall in alignment.

Time is one of our most precious resources and most of us often feel as though we never have enough. What I will always invite you to consider when you don't feel you have the time to focus on systems, self-health, or both is this: when was the last time you felt persistent, ongoing balance, and little overwhelm? When you lack time to invest in your personal infrastructure — the actions that replenish you and lighten your burden — you can strengthen a rhythm of overwhelm and grow accustomed to a sense of action, instead of stillness.

How much balance, joy, ease, and sustainable progress do you prevent when you allow self-health and holistic systems to remain at the bottom of the list? How much more profoundly could you invest in your deeply held aspirations if you entered every week with replenished energy and aligned values.

I am not interested in changing things that work! Those are your hard-won gems. What I am interested in is ensuring that what you have will continue to work. Think of it this way, if your client list doubled, tripled next week, would your toolkit still be working well enough? Would your systems still support your process at that level of growth? Would you feel secure in your connection to your priorities, equipped to remain rooted in your self-health, or with the energetic resources to refocus after a boom?

I LOVE working with folks on the precipice of their business journey.

Like a beloved fraulein once told us, the beginning is a very good place to start. There is never 'too early' or 'too small' for Monday Made. Early in your journey is when you begin to craft a culture, a tone, a rhythm for your business balance. While you will have to make adjustments as your understanding of your business grows and changes, your ability to do so with clarity and self-assuredness relies on a practice of reflecting and refocusing — the building blocks of the Monday Made program. Monday Made can help you forge a connection to your values that will serve you throughout the diversity of your business lifecycle.

Monday Made is structured to listen and respond to your unique perspective. Different than a pre-existing productivity framework or template, the systems we create will be a reflection of the whole of you. No two Monday Made programs are exactly alike, nor are they built to be static. The best systems move with you. Systems exist to amplify our lives, to allow space and acceleration for what we value. As those values evolve, so too must the systems we lean on. But even with all of that taken into account, like any venture into growth, Monday Made will work as well as you're ready to allow. We'll release what you're prepared to release, nurture what you're hoping to grow, and expand as large as the space you've created.