Reframing January//

Reframing January, beat those January blues by making it less miserable.

Am I weird, I love January.  It is a month for me to get to grips with all of the wedding work that I have to work on, as well as planning what’s next in my business and how else I can keep my lovely clients interested in what I do and how I can help them all.

A new year for more weddings and all of those lovely celebrations!

I will try to make this simple, but as a wordy girl, it can be quite hard to contain my pen and my enthusiastic typing!

I am going to say out loud, (well ok, out on the ether) that I LOVE January!

Why? I hear you ask.

Here Are My Ten Reasons Why:

1.  Because it is the month of such low expectations, so all that is gained is a complete bonus during this month.

2.  January is a month to hunker down, with a hot drink, turn down those ‘can do later’ invitations, put the fire on, and cosy up with a good book or a great film. Cosy away those January blues.

3.  As it is generally a less social month, you can get more organised at home, if you are anything like me, you may have had such a bonkers lead-up to December, during December, that you are now less organised and need to get cracking with all the things that you meant to do last year.

4.  Use this time to learn stuff, finish off that course or two, finish off that book, delve into that mastermind, and finish off that creative project you started.

I have just finished genning up on an amazing mastermind that I am doing with Erin Thomas Wong, It is called The Visibility Mastermind, as I had to slow down before Christmas, I got so busy, to have a whole day to complete the videos, tasks etc feels so good. Now I am ready to take on 2024 with gusto.

5.  January is the time to put on some cosy clothes, put on those chunky boots capture those wintery images on camera, kick some of those fallen leaves, and breathe in that crisp winter air.

6.  It’s also a time to re-visit those Christmas gifts that you were kindly gifted and make use of them while you have the time, use that new skincare product, or new tool kit, try out your new pen :), write in your ‘Line A Day’ book, with your fav pen of course.

7.  It’s a brilliant time to listen to some uplifting podcasts, my ever so and very, very favourite podcast is Brew With The Bennetts, I love it! It makes me laugh out loud on the way to my gigs, it’s so normal, so funny, relevant and so flippin real.

I also love Parenting Hell and Scott Bennett has featured on their show a couple of times, both great podcasts. So it’s a great time to listen to those podcasts that you keep on forgetting to listen to.

8.  Get out those old albums and play them again, give in to a bit of nostalgia and drink a glass of Dandelion and Burdock and take yourself back in time, just for a few moments.

9.  One of my favourite things to do is to open that brand-new diary. planner and get planning and adding all the things you have to look forward to and if it’s empty, then it’s full of open pages yet to be filled!

10.  If you are past that parent/child Saturday am duty stage, then you can have a lie in, make the most, get back under the covers, and enjoy that extra time in bed. I do a lot of my creative planning in or on my bed, it’s a great place to think and create.

How about you? Try to think of one positive, hopefully, you will find something and try not to allow a month to dictate how you feel, make the most of it, life is fleeting and we need to make the most of every single day.

If you have a wedding or a celebration coming up in 2024 and you need to start planning in January, then you can find out more here https://www.mybeautifulpen.uk/

Take care out there and here’s to the cosy, creative times.