DOING intentionally

Taking care of your tasks and your business can be a struggle when going through the three stages of the menoshift™ that are perimenopause, menopause and post menopause. Brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm, coupled with unpredictable changes in energy levels and mood makes looking after tasks more difficult and frustrating.

My first book, DOING intentionally: How to take care of your business through brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm during the menoshift™ introduces the 7 principles of DOING. Helping you to discover ways to lessen the impact of menoshift symptoms, look after yourself and your tasks, and grow thriving businesses!

Lessen the impact of these symptoms

The three stages of the menoshift™ that are perimenopause, menopause and post menopause bring an array of symptoms that can make life more difficult. In the book, DOING intentionally, I help you to find ways to reduce the impact of brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm, when taking care of you, your tasks and your business.

Brain fog

Brain fog can be enormously frustrating. Making it difficult to think clearly, concentrate and recall important details at the right time. Find out some gentle strategies to help increase clarity and why simply making a note of one task at a time can make a big difference.

Anxiety

Anxiety adds a layer of worries that can make organising and beginning complex tasks and projects feel like a massive hurdle. Learn how the simply sorted approach to organising your tasks and other principles could help to lessen feelings of anxiety.

Overwhelm

Overwhelm is a feeling of being weighed down, which can be worsened by having tasks dispersed in many locations and in your head. Discover some easy ways to work around this debilitating symptom including why having one safe place can reduce the impact of overwhelm.

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Stop stressful schedules,
pause productivity practices

The menoshift can be a time filled with lots of uncertainty. Uncertainties can make it difficult to stick to detailed schedules or follow the good productivity practices that may have worked well for you before you entered the menoshift. Perhaps you can recognise some of these problems as ones you may have encountered:

Have you woken up feeling refreshed after a restless night’s sleep or are you planning a nap in between meetings and other commitments?

Do you have a clear enough head for thinking through a complex problem or are you having a day where brain fog has made everything much harder and slower to complete?

Are you in a good mood for responding to difficult requests from others or reaching for the chocolate, coffee or something stronger to get you through the day ahead?

Are you feeling relaxed enough to deal well with competing priorities or being distracted by a constant sensation that everything feels off and anxiety has taken over your whole body?

Are you finding your current workload a great opportunity to grow and thrive or an insurmountable obstacle that weighs you down with overwhelm?

In my book DOING intentionally, discover why maybe it’s time to stop stressful schedules and pause productivity practices and start DOING instead.

DOING intentionally is about looking after yourself and taking care of your business tasks. Being more intentional, without adding the pressure of productivity.

Because of the menoshift, it may be necessary to change the way that tasks are organised. To help make tasks easier to manage on days when, despite all best efforts, your head and body appear to be against you.

If you fill your calendar with so much apparent certainty, where’s the space for moments of uncertainty and opportunities for being spontaneous?

Discover the 7 principles of DOING

In DOING intentionally, you’ll discover more about the 7 principles of DOING. The first letter from each of the first words from the 7 principles of DOING spell BOOSTED. This may help you to recall the 7 principles and to show that my hope for DOING is to elevate you when menoshift symptoms are making looking after your tasks more difficult.

Icon for be kind to yourself first
Be kind to yourself first
Icon for one safe place
One safe place
Icon for one task at a time
One task at a time
Icon for simply sorted
Simply sorted
Icon for thinking space
Thinking space
Icon for evaluate how you feel
Evaluate how you feel
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DOING 4D

DOING intentionally

Explore the chapter headings and subheadings in the book.

How to take care of your business through brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm during the menoshift™
  • Shift, not pause
  • Spinning plates to smashing disaster
  • Enter the menoshift!
  • What to do?
  • Lessen brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm
  • This book is for you
Chapter 1. DOING intentionally
  • Stop feeling frazzled
  • Becoming gently organised
  • The 7 Principles of DOING
  • Taking care of you and your business
Chapter 2. Be kind to yourself first
  • Recharge your batteries
  • Spotting vicious cycles
  • Prioritising you
  • Things to do, some might be tasks
  • Look after yourself first
  • Acknowledge the hidden, small, simple and automatic tasks
  • Notice a positive difference
Chapter 3. Discover your one safe place
  • So many lovely places
  • Increase chances to thrive
  • One safe place, not your head
Chapter 4. Start with one of your tasks
  • Stop moving mountains
  • Choose the gentler path
  • How to get started
  • Unblock your head
  • Slow down, it’s quicker that way
Chapter 5. The simply sorted approach for you
  • Clarity and focus are possible
  • Instantly remove 365 tasks from your to-do list
  • Task lists, simply organised
  • One-off, business change and project tasks
  • Stop occupying your head now
  • More certainty about later
  • Continual list for now, blocks for later
  • Recurring, business-as-usual tasks
  • Be on target
  • Repetition made simple
  • On top of daily tasks
  • Stop the weekly fears
  • Create a monthly cycle
  • Decrease annual anxieties
  • How to be simply sorted
  • Notice the patterns
Chapter 6. Space for you to think clearly
  • Spotting the disconnect
  • Room to grow
  • More clarity, more focus
  • Expand your creative thinking
  • Connecting tasks and information
Chapter 7. What to do with your tasks
  • Evaluate how you feel
  • So many tasks, what to do
  • DOING 4D
  • Delegate what you can
  • Delay the not so important
  • Delete some to dos and the should dos
  • Do what you must, can and want to do
  • Keep DOING with kindness

DOING Resources & Tools

Discover some resources and tools, to help you take care of your tasks with the 7 principles of DOING.

Question 1 of the DOING Simply Sorted Quiz
DOING Simply Sorted Quiz
Find a suggested DOING List to look after each of your tasks by responding to 3 effortless questions. Then add one task at a time to your one safe place.
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DOING Templates
Download a selection of PDF templates to use as your one safe place. Print or import into a digital notebook app, such as GoodNotes.
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DOING Companion
Join the waitlist for this ebook on how to take care of your tasks with the DOING Templates or a DOING Notebook as your one safe place.

Sign up for free DOING Resources & Tools

Please enter your name and email address to receive emails from Karen Currier and access some free DOING Resources & Tools.

  • Free access to use the online DOING Simply Sorted Quiz
  • Free access to download some PDF DOING Templates
  • Free access to join the waitlist for the DOING Companion ebook

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Illustration of a hardback DOING Notebook in purple with a starflower design

DOING Notebooks

Choose from a selection of different sized notebooks in paperback or hardback designed to be your one safe place so that you can take care of your tasks using the simply sorted approach.

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DOING intentionally: How to take care of your business through brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm during the menoshift™ is available as a Kindle ebook or paperback book.

About Karen Currier

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Hello, I’m Karen Currier. During the perimenopause stage of my menoshift™ I was running a business with my partner but struggled to keep going due to the many different menoshift symptoms that changed how I felt and what I could do.

I’m now over 10 years post menopause and have some understanding of what you may be experiencing. I recognise that the troublesome trio of brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm can play havoc with your wellbeing and sometimes your belief in yourself to continue to grow thriving businesses. Possibly with imposter syndrome making an unwelcome appearance!

As someone who loves to make things and change things, I have a love-hate relationship with big projects. My favourite things about big projects include playing with ideas, planning all the possibilities, starting with the 6rst task, iterating agile projects and getting over the 6nishing line. My least favourite things about big projects include waterfall projects with little room for change later, the last few lengths of any project. Of course, big projects mean taking care of lots of tasks!

During my menoshift I’ve completed some big projects including migrating together over 500 websites, creating 100 portraits in 100 days, sewing an enormous patchwork memory quilt for my daughter and DOING.

Developing DOING and writing this book, DOING intentionally: How to take care of your business through brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm during the menoshift™, has been one of the most rewarding and challenging big projects I’ve ever completed. As I began, I still had an ever-present feeling of anxiety and a feeling of overwhelm, but brain fog was already less worrisome. Happily and perhaps coincidentally, part-way through writing, my anxiety dissipated and the feeling of overwhelm gradually reduced too.

I do my best to practise all 7 principles of DOING. I’m still learning how to be kind to yourself first, noticing a positive difference when I do. I have days when I evaluate how I feel and can get frustrated that it doesn’t match the tasks that I need to do. And I need more practise with delegating*. But I love having a DOING Notebook as my one safe place and will need to get a new notebook soon as it fills up. I like to add one task at a time. Using the simply sorted approach is helping me to discover what tasks I do most frequently and those that I don’t want to keep doing. I love that thinking space creates clarity and I’m mostly *DOING 4D.

I hope that by sharing the 7 principles of DOING with you, you’ll be able to make some changes to how you take care of your tasks, to lessen the impact of brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm. And that you’ll be kind to yourself first and develop wonderful businesses to inspire others!