If you’re looking for a constructive and stress-free alternative to the annual “good resolutions” this year, you might find the perfect match in this calendar. The Berlin publishing house ‘Ein guter Verlag’ has created A Good Plan, a holistic calendar for more mindfulness and self-love, free of kitsch, clichés and self-optimization. But that’s not all – like the German original, the new English edition is produced vegan and climate-neutral in a family-run business in Germany. It is printed exclusively on 100 percent recycled paper and no plastic packaging is used. This clever little calendar, available in the English version as an undated planner so you can get started at any time, lets us ask the really important questions: What am I looking forward to, what will be a challenge, and what new habits do I want to form? Am I taking enough time to relax and have I tried something new this month? With monthly reflections, a mindfulness traffic light, and other tools, A Good Plan helps me develop more awareness of my essential needs and pursue them. These include values like self-determination and a need for more balance in my life. Each year, the publisher coins a new, encouraging motto. And so the “Zweitausendfreiundzwanzig®” (“Two Thousand and Twenty Free”) theme for 2023 feels just right. It’s time to free ourselves from limited beliefs, old pain and doubts that hold us back and step into the New Year with more confidence and openness. Sounds like a good plan, right? We think so, too.
Text: Natascha Hamel / Photos: Ein guter Plan
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