“The consistency of the process is where the magic is.” -Emily McDowell
Today is day 27 of reading + journaling about this prompt: What if it all works out?
- In addition to focusing on specific daily actions, I have also been involved with a course focused on meeting uncertainty with steadiness, focused on exploring the reality that life doesn’t have to be met with constant vigilance.
The March download for my Ko-fi patrons includes a 100-day tracker, content, journal templates, art and quotations.
- Tracking my days, paired with the consistency of my practice, has provided a scaffolding for exploring the backstory + details influencing my negative bias. 🙃
- Having a tangible 📊 tracker + a curriculum (read: my dated 📅 outline of resources) has facilitated my practice to focus on my well-being (and to release shoulds and defaults regarding prioritizing my well-being).
- Tracking my process of reframing (acknowledging agency, recovering + healing) is a part of my current right brain planning 🌈🦄🗂️👩🏻💻📚✂📐 practice. ♻️
- Our 👑 agency is our capability to determine our actions, 💭 thoughts, and environment in order to experience our desired goals. 📈
- Acknowledging + claiming personal 👑 agency enables deliberate ✅ choices, and shapes our living as we recover + learn from various forms of personal challenge. ❤️🩹
- Our 👑 agency is our capability to determine our actions, 💭 thoughts, and environment in order to experience our desired goals. 📈
Braveheart, we want progress to be steady and predictable. But that is an unrealistic (and unfair) hope because progress is more often a zigzag line of feelings and clarity mingled with varying degrees of resolve.
- Often our efforts don’t ❌ produce tangible results in the short term.
- It is important to hold steady when we doubt the possibility (and our ⚙️ ability) to change and live a new narrative. 🔮
“To be self-compassionate, mindfulness is actually the first step we need to take—we need presence of mind to respond in a new way.” -Kristin Neff
Everything counts, Braveheart. Everything cycles. And self-compassion helps us to remember that everything is data.
Everything fits together to create options and opportunity, and to guide us within our one wild and precious life.
- We have the capacity within our habits and practices (moods and micro-pauses) that facilitates [empowers us to make] choices that foster our well-being and create desired changes.
Right brain planning is a ritual that [begins with + fosters] self-compassion, focused on the four essentials of our living, our Life Quad:
- wellness
- relationships
- being/doing
- home (as sanctuary)
Right brain planning—the choice to allow “planning” to be expression + discovery in our journals—facilitates a reckoning with our emotions and helps us with the necessary edits in our narratives within our Life Quad.
- Not as a means of judging, “rejecting” or minimizing what we are experiencing—but as a self-compassionate practice of identifying (naming) what we are living.
“When you reckon with emotion, you can change your narrative. You have to acknowledge your feelings and get curious about the story behind them. Then you can challenge those confabulations and get to the truth.” -Brené Brown
If you have been considering a 100-day project, I invite you to remember that you are not late or behind. And if you really want to do this, you could simply begin your bit of 🪄 “magic” in March (or not). 😊
- You are the expert about what you need for your well-being and creativity.
- Trust yourself. You can decide when and how you want to do your 100-day project.
“Afraid to appear selfish, we lose our self. We become self-destructive. Because this self murder is something we seek passively rather than consciously act out, we are often blind to its poisonous grip on us.” -Julia Cameron
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart. 💗
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
⭐️ I am an artist and curator; I am one who communicates with color, found words and collage, inky marks and doodles as I cycle like the moon (as my calendar), chronicling oracles and abiding with the sky as a meditation.
⭐️ I host creative communities, safe spaces for gathering and sharing. I choose love and creativity for coping with the ongoing challenges of this world and I go to work—not because everything is fine but because I believe art heals.
❤️ Braveheart, as the Creator/Artist of Right Brain Planner I am ever-grateful to have the opportunity to share my creative work online + support other creators! 🎉 For almost 20 years I have had the privilege of sharing my art and writing about right brain planning while also hosting kindred 👭🏽💞👭 communities. ✨ I consider it an absolute 🤸 delight to continue this portion of my creative 📝🖌️✂️🫧 work (even as I retire from full-time work).
- This is possible, in part, by {you} and your presence here. But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and paid subscriptions). 🫶
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