Using the December Ko-fi download as my guide I am creating a small daily collage as part of my weekly chronicle. This week I started with a painty background + a collection of phrases and quotations.
“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. It’s amazing to me how much we do, but how little time we spend reflecting on what we just did.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
Braveheart, I am offering three reflection prompts to you as the calendar year of 2025 winds down. Prompts for us to consider before living the same life over and over creates anymore unintended consequences for us.
The following prompts are from the Ko-fi download for December.
My answers to this prompt came quick because this has been a very intentional year for me. I have kept notes from my monthly reviews, and I am currently working on changing narratives and learning how to accommodate what serves me best with daily sequences going forward. 🗺️
“The narrative you are living can be changed at any time because it is being written in real time—by you.” -Joseph Nguyen
What do you need for your well-being? What do you need to release to make space?
My daily habits in December are focused on ease, rest and s-l-o-w. This facilitates my time and energies being given to review and reflection, napping and purging. ❤️
“[It’s possible to] have a much deeper experience of the world through the use of a regular documentation of everyday life.” -Keri Smith
Braveheart, everything cycles: our needs, preferences, energies and the many details of what serves and sustains us.
This means what we chronicle + how we chronicle (compile narratives of) our living will cycle. Keeping some type of chronicle will certainly deepen our experience of the world and enhance our attention, energies, desires, doubts, inspirations and strength; our habits, moods, relationships, intentions and defaults.
But, also, our narratives can change by choice, intention and focus as necessary.
We can co-exist with everything and we can co-exist with every phase within our cycles—even as we learn to keep only what speaks to our hearts. ❤️
My right brain planning practice has been a saving grace for me through college; unemployment/underemployment; graduate school; motherhood; cancer; coping through estrangements; chronic illness; and living my questions.
- It helped me to hold space with what I was experiencing, but also to hold on loosely because much of what I experienced was jarringly unexpected and I had to cope without support. (Mostly because the people I asked were emotionally unavailable or ill-equipped.)
- There were many heart-wrenching daily challenges that demanded my time and energies, and discernment.
- For decades, these demands allowed little time for tending to my own needs.
- That eventually led to me hitting rock bottom in 2019, and exacerbated by the events of 2020 and 2021 in my personal life (and obviously, world events). 💔
Looking back I see my recovery and eventual restoration could not have happened any other way. It broke me of the habits rooted in my faulty [always try harder] belief system, (because otherwise I would be a burden to others). Or so I believed … 🤷🏻♀️
- I no longer value “stronger” over “softer,” or trying harder over pause and release.
- Life is short, Braveheart. Doing what is best for our well-being need not become exhausting.
- Acknowledging what didn’t change or work out as we wished is the beginning of everything that awaits us on the other side of “trying harder.”
- I am content with “less”—which in truth, is not less, it is precisely everything I need. ❤️
Step-by-step, our choices determine our lives.
Braveheart, the choices we make determine the kind of people we are + how well we live and love. ❤️
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
❤️ 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