Winter can feel long and slow, and February especially can feel like an eternity sometimes.

Today, I'm sharing the daily and weekly rhythms are working for me right now

and how I'm making the most of this season before transitioning into spring.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 305.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that's where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

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Okay, I am so excited to talk about winter rhythms today.

And I really want to focus on playful winter rhythms or the winter rhythms are bringing me life. And I'll talk about some work ones too. But just a quick

recap before I jump into that, here's what January and February have looked like for me.

January was my setup for success month. I did not produce any

podcast episodes other than one kind of towards the end of that month. I just kind of quieted

everything, social media, all of it. And I have been analyzing everything in my life. What is working?

What is not? What's working with my work and what's not? What about my social life?

What about our family rhythms? Every year looks so different and every year our family's in a different

phase. So this is something I think is just really good for me to do. And I'm making a lot of small

changes throughout my life that hopefully will translate into bigger changes

that will just help me throughout this year specifically. I talked about this in my episode a few

weeks ago about my goals for the year, but in January, I took some time to learn how to use

AI in ways that I never have before, and it's really helping me save

time. I am doing a thorough closet clean out. I created this repeating two-week meal plan that

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