Professor, podcaster, and mom of two Danielle McGeough shares how a "muck moment" after tenure led her to rebuild capacity and joy using playful planning, micro-experiments, and identity-aligned rituals. We cover her hybrid (paper + digital) approach, why boredom makes us brilliant, the difference between to-do goals and to-be goals, and how to let the how emerge once you're crystal clear on the what. You'll leave with simple practices to create space, protect energy, and actually enjoy your calendar again.

• From overwhelm to agency
• The night planning that changed everything
• Using your calendar as data (energy, resistance, patterns)
• Planning parties, stickers, and making productivity feel like self-care
• Vision method: values, intention, seasonal capacity, a word as a filter
• Habits vs. rituals (presence practices that invite meaning)
• Daily Top 3: mixing to-do goals with to-be goals (how you'll show up)
• Hybrid planning: digital for appointments, paper for thinking clearly
• Grace for caregiving seasons + the power of margin and boredom

Daily Top 3: list 2 to-dos and 1 to-be (the energy you'll bring).

Calendar as Data: mark one ✨ task that lit you up and one ⚡ that drained you; adjust next week accordingly.

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