34. Friendships: Using your calendar to help you show up as the friend you want to be

If you're like most of the women I work with, your relationships, including your friendships, are the most important parts of your life – more important than work or home logistics. 

Even when friendships are a top priority, it can be hard to consistently show up the way we want to. Life gets busy, and despite our best intentions, remembering to call a friend or text them during a tough or joyful moment often slips through the cracks. If that resonates with you, you’re not alone—and it doesn’t mean you’re a bad friend. It just means your brain can’t do it all on its own.

In this episode, I share calendar-based time management strategies that help me and many of my clients be the kinds of friends we truly want to be, especially during busy or emotionally draining seasons of life. We talk about:

• Why expecting your brain to remember it all is unrealistic

• How to use your digital calendar to show up consistently in your friendships

• What "friendship maintenance" looks like and how to calendar it in a flexible, non-overwhelming way

• How to support a friend going through a hard time (or a celebratory one!) with intention

• Why this isn’t about “shoulds”—but about showing up in the ways you genuinely want to

• The power of adjusting your expectations to match reality without guilt

If you want to feel confident and proud of how you show up in your relationships—without expecting your brain to carry the full load—I hope this episode gives you practical tools to do that.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and select the episode.

 

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