From frantic doing to mindful being
8-Session Workshop Series
Wingston Sharon Wilson | Creative Coding & Technology
Clock time vs. eternal now: reclaiming the pause
Four quadrants of effective project design
Orange, Green, Yellow approaches to productivity
What are you avoiding by staying busy?
Natural rhythms vs. forced productivity
Calendar as mirror of true priorities
"Beneath procrastination, overwhelm, and endless to-do lists lie deeper questions: What truly matters? Whose priorities am I serving?"
📱 Broken Promises: "The right app will fix everything"
😔 To-Do List Shame: Never enough, never done
🏃 Busyness as Badge: What am I proving?
❓ Deeper Questions: What am I avoiding by staying busy?
How we experience time reveals our relationship with life itself
"Never enough time"
Anxiety, rushing, overwhelm
"Time is running out"
Fear, urgency, resistance
"I have all the time I need"
Presence, spaciousness, flow
Meditation reveals: Clock time is overlay on eternal now
Focus: Efficiency, results, winning
Planning: Goal-oriented, competitive, measurable KPIs
Shadow: Burnout, using people as means, empty success
Focus: Work-life balance, team harmony, sustainability
Planning: Collaborative, values-aligned, considers impact
Shadow: Endless consensus, avoiding hierarchy, paralysis
Focus: Whole lifecycles, interdependencies, emergence
Planning: Adaptive, functional, considers all quadrants
Shadow: Complexity paralysis, over-thinking, detachment
"What am I proving by staying busy?"
That I'm worthy? Valuable? Deserving of love?
"What feelings does an empty calendar evoke?"
Worthlessness? Fear of being forgotten? Boredom?
"If I completed everything, what then?"
Who would I be without my to-do list identity?
"What am I avoiding by staying busy?"
Grief? Loneliness? Existential questions? Intimacy?
"What shifts when you align your calendar with your actual values, not inherited shoulds?"
90-120 minute cycles of high focus
Followed by natural rest periods
Honor the rhythm, don't force through
Lion (early morning) • Bear (midday) • Wolf (evening)
When are YOU most alive?
Schedule high-priority work for your peak energy
Daily restoration (sleep, meals, walks)
Weekly reset (Sabbath principle)
Rest is productive. It enables everything else
Forced productivity vs. Flow states: One depletes, one nourishes
"Why does this matter to me? What's my true motivation?"
Skipping this = half-hearted execution
"What are the concrete tasks, deliverables, deadlines?"
ONLY this = soulless productivity
"What cultural narratives am I operating within?"
Unconscious here = inherited shoulds driving you
"What systems, structures, resources enable this?"
Ignoring this = unrealistic plans
What got done? What didn't? Why?
How's my energy? Where's the drift?
Adjust next week accordingly
Bigger picture: Am I on track with what matters?
Shadow check: What am I avoiding?
Course corrections before crisis
Life design level: Is this the life I want?
Calendar as mirror: Do my priorities match my values?
Major pivots if needed
"Regular review practice transforms reactive fire-fighting into proactive life design"
Samadhi (focus), Vipassana (awareness), Metta (compassion)
Experiencing the eternal now beneath clock time
Moving the feeling of overwhelm
Dancing with busyness, embodying rest
Free-writing on the four questions
What is my busyness hiding?
Sharing calendar shame without judgment
Being seen in our overwhelm
Four-quadrant project design worksheet
Track your ultradian rhythms & chronotype
Process to identify your true priorities
Weekly/monthly/quarterly frameworks
Making difficult choices aligned with values
Journaling questions for self-inquiry
"I said family was my priority, but my calendar had zero time for them. The disconnect was painful, and revealing."
Result: Blocked family time first, turned down more meetings, felt more grounded
"Every minute was booked with client work. My own creative projects (the reason I started this) had no space."
Result: 'Sacred Tuesdays' for personal work, renegotiated client load, reignited passion
"My busyness was avoiding grief from my father's death. When I finally gave myself space to feel, everything shifted."
Result: Weekly therapy, daily walks, healthier relationship with work and self
This is not about getting more done.
Doing matching being
Calendar reflecting values
Fully here for what matters
Not half-present everywhere
Compulsive achievement → purposeful contribution
Life as project → life as presence
"Your worth is not your output. You are not your to-do list."
Knowledge worker drowning in tasks, losing your creative spark
Seeking clarity about what truly matters in next chapter
Your list has become source of failure, not support
Managing many moving parts, wanting holistic framework
Workaholic tendencies, suspecting burnout is close
Your busyness might be hiding something you need to face
See how consciousness stage shapes your planning patterns
Planning approach aligned with YOUR values, not just tasks
Practical methodology considering all four quadrants
From enemy/scarcity to ally/sufficiency
Identify & work with material around achievement & rest
Balance doing & being without burnout
We'll send session-by-session breakdown, upcoming cohort dates, sliding scale guidance
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No question too small. We're here to help you discern if this is right for you
"From calendar as tyrant to time as teacher.
From life as project management to life as embodied presence."
Conscious Planning Workshop
Presence • Alignment • Sustainable Rhythms
Wingston Sharon Wilson | Creative Coding & Technology
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