An Abundance of Tomatoes

Monday Magic: Week 001

Welcome to Monday Magic, a new branch of Make It Make Sense. Every Monday I’ll walk you through my own “Visionary Day” practices so you can create your own version. Think of this as the rituals, riches, and realignment to start your week from.

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ENERGY OF THE WEEK:

This week I pulled the Four of Swords. This is the energy of intentional stillness—taking a beat to integrate, to reset, to recover—specifically after big mental effort.

This feels especially poignant for my own journey, as I'm less than a week into a complete life overhaul—selling our house and moving my entire life and family (all four cats!) to Spain.

There’s been so much to figure out and navigate—and we did it. But now, I feel a different kind of pressure: the push to make everything feel “normal.” To already know my way around town. To have my routines set. To be in a regular flow.

But that’s not realistic—not yet, at least.

I see this card as an invitation to integrate what I’ve already accomplished—and to release the urgency to rush into a new normal.

For you, I wonder: Where do you need to take a breath and slow down? What mental effort or decision-making have you just moved through—and could you take a moment to rest? To integrate? Where are you pushing for clarity instead of allowing it to emerge?

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SETTING INTENTIONS:

My Words: Integrate / Soften / Settle

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JOURNALING ON:

1. What am I grateful for?

2. What actually needs my attention today?

3. What would be the most ‘trusting’ thing I could do today?

4. How good am I willing to let it get?

5. What do I need to be reminded of right now and why?

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EXPLORING:

1. What rituals and routines actually nourish me and why? We can recreate our days (our lives!) in any moment, so what things support me truly (versus feel like ‘I should do them’)? What does it really feel like to be nourished? What becomes possible from nourishment?

2. What does it mean to provide value in this current business landscape? What is valuable? What is valuable to me? Who decides what valuable means?

3. Navigating new levels of grief alongside huge levels of expansion and desire. What if our ability to go into the murky depths is exactly what makes us capable of holding massive levels of awe and delight?

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DESIRING:

Xanthe Appleyard

(who’s napkin math inspired this share!) and I host a podcast called Wanting In Public (Spotify, Apple) where we talk a lot about desires. This morning, I am craving:

• Morning routine flow that feels supportive to me

• Plain protein powder for my smoothies (the vanilla we found is… gross)

• Open up my mastermind again with 4-6 dreamy humans who get the vibe

• A spanish tutor

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RICH LIST:

I’ve been tracking this daily over on Threads and it’s been so fun. Here are some things that come to mind, this morning.

• Rich in tomatoes at every meal

• Rich in sleep as my body adjusts to new schedule/jet lag

• Rich in time (time is not real in Spain, I think)

• Rich in appreciation for myself and Will doing this big, bold thing

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Okay, your turn. What’s some magic you can bring into your Monday?

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