Stir, Taste and Adjust: Creative Planning for Busy Moms

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

It seems that this proverb was written just for moms.  On the one hand, it’s hard to imagine getting through your days as a mom without some kind of plan in place.  On the other, I don’t know another role in which our best laid plans are so utterly doomed to failure!

Life with children is notoriously unpredictable, so how in the world can you even make a plan, never mind expect to execute it?  But you have things to do, places to go and other people to shuffle.  How can you ever get it together without having a plan of some kind?  But the plans always change.  Someone gets sick, someone needs to switch carpool days, the meeting gets moved.  How can you plan ANYTHING?  And what’s the point if things never go the way you think they will anyway?

I hear your frustration.

And that nagging suspicion that you must be doing something wrong if your plans always seem to fall apart.

Would you like a way to come up with plans that won’t dissolve into dust and leave you feeling like you’ve failed the minute they come into contact with the real world?

Here’s a workshop for you!

Stir, Taste and Adjust:  Creative Planning for Busy Moms

This workshop was almost called

Magic tricks for moms who know there’s no point in planning because all plans are doomed by the complete unpredictability of life especially when children are involved, but who still need to Get Stuff Done fercryinoutloud!

I changed my mind only because that really gets hard to say over and over again!

But this is what we’re going to talk about.

How do you make plans that work in the real world?

By which I mean the crazy, busy, full of surprises, detours and glitches world that you actually live in.  The world in which nothing ever seems to go as planned.

I’m going to let you in on the little secret that explains why plans are so hard to carry out- and why it’s not your fault.  There’s nothing wrong with you.  There may not be anything wrong with your plans.  It’s just that plans, once you’ve got them figured out, are static.  And the world is dynamic.  A mom’s world is especially subject to change on a moment’s notice.  And that wreaks havoc on even the most brilliant, well-thought out plans.

In this workshop you’re going to learn how plans are like recipes.  Why we need them, how to create them, how to adjust them on the fly and when to toss them out!

And don’t worry- I know you don’t really follow recipes anyway.  That’s part of the point!

Here’s just some of what we’re going to cover:

• Strategies that you can actually use to control (some of!) the chaos that is a mom’s life
• Making plans that aren’t doomed to failure
• Distinguishing a reasonable plan from an unreasonable one
• The art of planning without boxing yourself in
• Tweaking your plan on the fly
• What happens when it all comes crashing down?

It’s going to be great!

Here are the details:

When?

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

8:30-9:00 Registration & Breakfast

9:00-11:00 Workshop

Where?

Panera Bread Community Room

425 Ken Pratt Blvd.

Longmont, CO 80503

How much?

$35 for the workshop alone

If you want some one-on-one help with your particular planning challenges, you can get the workshop plus a one-hour coaching session for $125.

Here’s what you’re going to get:

• Breakfast
• Workbook
• Follow-up exercises
• A community of like-minded moms
• Optional follow-up support
• Resource Guide

I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to ask about their particular challenges, so there are only 15 spots available in this workshop.

If this sounds like something that would help you, register now so you don’t miss out!

$35 (workshop alone)

$125 (workshop plus one hour individualized coaching session)

Thinking about it?  Check out this post I wrote on Plans, Planning and the Illusion of Control.

Still on the fence?  Shoot me an email (use the contact page, or liz[at]dreamgardencoaching[dot]com) and I’ll be happy to answer any questions.