Okay so here’s the thing about next month for us Tauruses work-wise. Saw the forecast pop up and honestly? Kinda chuckled at first. I mean, crystals and stars telling me how to manage my workload? But hey, figured why not give it a proper shake and actually track what happens. Been feeling stuck in a rut, so maybe a cosmic nudge wasn’t the worst idea.
First step? Grabbed my usual work planner – that messy leather-bound one – and dumped out all the junk clogging next month’s pages. Meetings that could be emails, projects hanging by a thread, the whole lot. Felt kinda therapeutic actually. The Taurus tip was “focus on stability & ditch the fluff.” Alright, stars, point taken.
Then I sat down and just stared at the cleared schedule. Felt weirdly bare. The prediction kept nagging about using “practical Taurean energy,” so I jammed my core tasks – the real meat-and-potatoes work that actually brings in results – into those open slots first. The stuff I can control. Budget reviews? Jammed in. Client contract renewals? Blocked time. Left gaps for the inevitable fires, obviously. Tried something “Taurus” they mentioned: mapped tasks to specific days based on energy levels. Mondays are brutal, so heavy lifting gets kicked to Tuesdays/Wednesdays now. Seems like common sense, but I never formally did it before.
Here’s where the ‘test’ bit happened. The forecast said we’d be great at sticking to routines next month but horrible with sudden curveballs. So… I kinda created a curveball. Purposely scheduled back-to-back meetings with two notoriously difficult clients on the same afternoon. Yeah, I know. Recipe for disaster, right? Pure Taurus stubbornness wanting to test the “stay grounded” advice.
Fast forward to D-Day. Morning went smoothly ticking off my practical tasks. Felt super productive. Then afternoon hits… meeting one runs long, meeting two client throws a massive wrench in the plan requiring emergency data pulls I hadn’t prepped. Felt that familiar panic rise. But then I literally mumbled to myself, “Okay Taurus, stability. Ground yourself, you stubborn bull.” Deep breath. Took 5 minutes. Drank water. Prioritized the emergency ask, pushed the other follow-ups politely but firmly to the next morning.
Result? Didn’t get everything done that afternoon, obviously. Felt rushed. BUT. Didn’t spiral into chaos or work till midnight trying to fix it all at once. Just tackled the immediate fire and rescheduled. The prediction wasn’t wrong about the curveballs knocking us off kilter! BUT the ‘practical’ planning I did first saved my bacon. Had the breathing room built in because I’d protected my core work.
So what’s the messy human takeaway here?
The practice:
- Purged the useless tasks FIRST. Taurus energy hates waste. Felt solid.
- Plugged in the foundational, income-generating work IMMEDIATELY into the calendar. No fluff allowed near those slots.
- Accepted my natural rhythm. Fighting my sluggish Mondays for focus-heavy work is dumb. Adjusted the schedule to lean into Tues/Wed for deep thinking.
- Left ACTUAL gaps. Not just decorative white space. Realistic pockets for the unknown. This saved me.
Honestly? It mostly felt like applying common sense, just with a slightly stubborn, practical Taurean flavor. Maybe it gave me the push to finally ditch the low-impact stuff and focus? Maybe it’s all made up. But the act of consciously planning like this – taking the prediction as a prompt, not gospel – actually made next month look less scary. More like… manageable earth beneath my feet. Even if the rest is stardust. We’ll see how the whole month actually pans out though! Still got that squirrelly client project hanging around…
