June Bloom.

No Gloom Around Here!

TLDR:
🦋 Put it on paper

📅 See the whole picture

✨ Dream a little bigger

🤖 Let AI schuzz it up

🚀 Take the next step

🧭 Navigate Your Summer

Even more precise…

Write or speak everything, all your thoughts, on paper/into your notes.
Take a picture.
Let AI help you build the roadmap.

_{All bloom, no gloom 🌞}

June 1st.

We made it! I made it.

Honestly, there were moments over the last two months when I wasn’t entirely sure I was going to arrive here with my sanity intact.

April was my “Say Yes” month.

Then May looked at April and said, “Hold my coffee.” GULP… 😮‍💨

Between extra work hours, graduation preparations, family celebrations, a major client loss (more on that coming), some unexpected health concerns, and all the normal responsibilities that don’t magically disappear when life gets complicated, it felt like I spent much of the spring running on momentum and caffeine.

But this weekend, in the late night hours of quiet and thinking, something shifted.

Instead of jumping straight into another busy month, (please no) I spent most of Sunday doing something I haven’t done in a while:

I zoomed out. 👀

I grabbed one of those giant paper calendars from the Dollar Store, a handful of markers, and started filling things in.

First came the non-negotiables:

• Work hours

• Meetings

• Teaching

• Work events

• Family events

• Known deadlines

Then I added my projects and goals.

• The podcast.

• Substack.

• Talent agency goals.

• Health goals.

• Taxes (because apparently the IRS continues to expect adult behavior from me).

• The piano work I’ve been wanting to prioritize.

• The writing projects I’ve been nudging to the back burner.

And finally, I grabbed a blue marker (blue pen on white paper is high contrast and is known to activate the brain in magical ways!) and added what I call the “oh-sooooo delulu dreams.”

The bigger ideas.

The things that don’t have a guaranteed outcome.

The goals that make me excited and nervous at the same time.

More talent clients booked.

More piano gigs.

More writing.

More opportunities.

More freedom.

The funny thing? Once everything was on paper, my brain got quiet. I KNOW this happens and I don’t do this enough.

Anyway…

Not because the work disappeared.

Not because the challenges disappeared.

Because I could finally see it.

All of it.

The obligations. The opportunities. The dreams. The next steps.

When everything lives inside our heads, it feels enormous.

When it lives on paper, it becomes something we can navigate. (shameless plug alert ⇣⇣⇣)

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And yes, I took a picture of the calendar.

Then I fed it into my AI. And that might be my favorite part of this entire process.

Because AI didn’t create my goals. Ummm NOOOO.

It didn’t decide my priorities.

It didn’t tell me what matters.

I did that.

AI simply helped me organize the route.

It helped me take a giant pile of ideas and turn them into a practical roadmap.

And friends, that felt incredibly freeing.

For me (maybe you too?) that’s what June is for.

Not more hustle. Not more pressure.

Not waiting until July 1st or January 1st to start over. (I’m not good at waiting, are you? Please help lol)

Maybe June is simply an invitation to pause long enough to see where we’re going.

Yes, it’s true we’re nearly at the halfway point of the year.

Soooo, what if you gave yourself permission to dream a little?

To plan a little? To scheme a little?

What if you took all those ideas floating around in your brain and gave them a home on paper?

Then maybe... just maybe... consider to let technology help you schuzz it up into an actual plan.

Because your second half of the year is about to be here.

You CAN make your dreams and schemes happen…

P.S. Friday I’ll show you exactly how I used AI to turn my $3 Dollar Store calendar into a practical summer roadmap and how I use the Workflowy system. (PS you can use any system you want!)

Karen Michaels 🦋 is a talent agent, social media strategist, singer-pianist, and podcast host helping creatives spend less time on socials and more time doing THE THING. Find her at socialbutterflygroup.substack.com and @TechieButterflySinger on YouTube.

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