12/22/2025
I wanted to cancel the class a couple weeks ago, but that part of me that is a woman of my word decided to work around it and keep it on the schedule anyway.
There were 2 ladies signed up and honestly, it’s such a valuable method for my clients to know, it is worth doing even if the class isn’t filled. I’m happy to do it and I love teaching it to anyone who is open to learning about connective tissue and fascia.
However, I knew I had a creative project I wanted to work on and was trying to figure out what pockets of time could be dedicated to working on it without feeling rushed and the Sunday morning I planned to offer this class would otherwise be ideal for it.
It happened to be the last Sunday right before Christmas Day, coinciding with the last day of Hanukkah, when we had plans to have dinner with the fam later that day. Eating brisket and latkes, attempting to learn how to play mahjon 🤪and ending the night with the dreidel game 🕎 and giving the girls their gifts 🎁🎁🎁
Back to Sunday morning before all that evening fun.
It’s time for class to start. I’m already at the studio, mats laid out, props set up. Fascianator rollers out, ready to go.
Then I read a text from one, not feeling well. Didn’t sleep great. Needed to rest.
Then the other… completely forgot! Which was not like her at all.
When these messages came through, I wasn’t even mad. Well for a moment I was, at MYSELF because I knew I should have cancelled ! But then quickly, just had to laugh.
I get what I wanted anyway?! …To be home and working on my project. ha!
I thought to myself, “well, wouldn’t ya know it. It would have been ok to take it off the schedule after all.”
I’m giving myself grace here.
Because as this stuff happens, I am getting better and better at listening to my gut with planning and booking out my calendar, taking my creative energy into account as one of my priorities going into this particular winter season.
Mandy and I are doing a planning session for 2026 early in January and we already decided rather than putting all the things on the calendar for The Dana Lee Project, we are going to list out all the fun ideas we have for the year, perhaps narrow them down for each quarter, but leave flexible wiggle-room to be more on the pulse of doing it as we are inspired. Which could result in scrapping ideas entirely or maybe putting them off til 2027 when all is said and done.
I’m so excited about this approach.
It’s not something I’ve done to this extent before. I’ve been dabbling with it, especially since I have spoken recently about energy management (feminine energy) vs time management (masculine energy).
It’s been proven to me time and time again- that an idea I have in January for the month of October doesn’t always hit the same once we get there. I’ve found myself doing things like that anyway, and it feels draining and awful.
What HAS worked?
The most successful things I have done in my life and business have come from last minute creative urges when I’m doing it because I’m fu***ng jazzed about it, not because my planning session says this is what we “should” be hosting for June’s Summer Solstice written on the calendar.
It could make logical sense, but then there are other things not as tangible that contribute to it not being the best thing for us to do.
It’ll be interesting how it pans out when I look back a year from now:
The year I planned for the basics, but left lots of room for magic. More than I ever have before. 💖
How much fun and success did I experience in 2026 because I listened to my instincts that wanted to do it, rather than being dictated by a pre-planned schedule to do it?
Can’t wait to share what happens!