Today is the first quarter 🌓 moon; it is ✅ Day 89/100 of my second 100-Day Project for this year, (theme: Benevolence, Wonder and Meaning).
I will be sharing daily reading notes from My Inner Sky by Mari Andrew through Day 100/100 and until August 31. 😊 … However, [freedom] is my guide words for 2026, so please take that into consideration. 🪂
“Once a place becomes home, it rarely remains magnificent. It’s comfortable, even Manhattan can feel a little boring on a humid Tuesday. That is why it’s a discipline and a practice for me to keep it magical.” -Mari Andrew
“To become present in your own city as you would be while traveling, you have to make the city feel new … You have to get a little disoriented, even annoyed. That’s what it is like to be around humans, who are unpredictable and often annoying.” -Mari Andrew
This chapter includes a delightful list of magical things Mari recorded as she devoted attention to watching + listening + chronicling her days in New York City.
- ✅ Examples from her list included: people 💃 dancing on balconies; secret 🪴 gardens; people helping other people; funny things said by 🧒🏻👧🏻 children; free 🍎 apples left by some fire 🚒 fighters; a little boy’s hand-drawn 🗺️ map to help a woman on the 🚉 subway who couldn’t read English.
- This chapter also included four pages of line drawings illustrating her numbered list. 😊
✅ My takeaway from this chapter: As a form of tending to my [wellness], remember to devote attention to the goodness of my dailies—even when that may not feel doable 🙆♀️ (because baby steps count). 😊
Baby steps are how we progress + foster a habit of attention and ➡️➡️➡️ move beyond our limits. This is how we “learn [we] can change [through our] actions” … and “determine [our] trajectory” (Kitty Chisholm). ⬇️
“The importance of doing stuff that stretches you cannot be overstated. It is through stretching that you learn you can change that you realize that your actions can have a significant impact on your environment and that you can determine your trajectory.” -Kitty Chisholm
What does this have to do with right brain planning?
Showing up for ourselves daily-ish and setting aside ⏰ time and space on a regular basis for both tangible and intangible processing is how we redirect our energies + identify our desires + get 🔎 clarity.
- Right brain planning is a practice that invites us to devote ⏰ time and 🔎 attention to expression and a dated chronicle of our personal data—📈 highs, lows 📉 and in-betweens 📊— to assist us in our self-awareness and ongoingness.
- This includes notes from slow-reading books about creativity, self-discovery and healing + jotting down ways to live more of what we desire from those insights. 😊
Right Brain Planner is a collection of lunar + seasonal prompts and journal-planning ideas to encourage self-compassion and review, reflection and expression, discovery and healing.
Braveheart, we learn by doing: we discover details about ourselves through chronicled observation 👀✍️📔 because everything we experience is data. 📊
Data is value-neutral; it is neither “good’ or “bad”—it is merely information to use for our choices, intentions and conclusions. Remembering this helps us to live free from judgment and shoulds.
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