Resource: a planner for clergy with reflection prompts and planning tools
Ground your planning in your values, vocation, and sustainable rhythms.
Many of us are on the search for the perfect planner. If we could just find it, we would be able to do all the things!
Last year I created a resource that might be useful for organizational purposes. I make no claims, though, that it is the perfect planner. In fact, I don’t want it to be the tool that allows us to do all the things. Instead, I hope that A Year of Intention: Reflection Prompts and Planning Tools for Clergy can help us focus on what is most important in our professional and personal lives and to name the behaviors and supports that will undergird that focus.
In A Year of Intention you will find:
Prompts for thinking through values and vocation (your own and your ministry setting's) and sustainable rhythms
Planning pages for both liturgical seasons and seasons of the calendar (i.e., fall, winter, spring and summer), with questions that hearken back to identified values, vocation, and sustainable rhythms
Weekly planning pages (three different options, depending on how you frame your week) with reflection questions for the beginning and ending of each day to help you stay grounded in how you want to show up for God, others, and yourself
Reflection questions to help you look back on the year, assessing what went well and what you'd like to adjust for the following year in order to live even more fully into values, vocation, and sustainable rhythms
Table of contents:
Example of one of the weekly planning formats:
After purchasing the planner for $15, you are welcome to download, print, and copy its pages for your own use. I envision putting them in a ½” binder, but you might have a better idea. Do what works best for you. The resources are undated, so you can use them year after year.
Two days into this brand-new year, I pray that A Year of Intention will be a help to you as you navigate 2025 with intention. Blessings on you and on your ministry!