Tracking the details of each week helps me focus on my practice. ♥
I compile these weekly entries to share the pages I create, but also to track guiding words and quotations and what I am reading and learning about.
Because I want to be more intentional about compiling monthly notes as a point of review, I decided I needed to create a booklet cover for my 2024 review notes. (I shared it with my Ko-fi patrons here.)
- The lunar cycle templates include two panels for tracking events and notations for each cycle.
- I will be inserting these into my 2024 review booklet.
This passage resonated with me deeply because for the first time in my life I have much more control over how I spend my days.
Doing what I can, and only doing what I want. Full stop.
- This includes living free from unrealistic expectations and the absolute insanity of circular discussions (same topics, same outcome … along with emotional exhaustion).
- “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time” (Maya Angelou).
As of December 2023, I relieved myself of a lingering sense of duty regarding past roles and responsibilities. ♥
- My partner and I are celebrating the freedom of this particular phase of our union of 33+ years.
- We have overcome tremendous personal challenges. Marion Woodman’s writings about “multiple marriages” (within the same union) and the “great courage to break with one’s past history and stand alone” come to mind. ♥
- We determined that at this stage of our lifespan, we need not waste any more time on futile situations (false hopes; talking to people who are not listening; scorpion and frog scenarios).
- Relationships change because people change; people either change and grow together, or they grow apart.
- “We are not entitled to healthy relationships without doing the work required” (Nedra Glover Tawwab).
People with ADHD see the world through their emotions. Our brains are wired to detect even mild levels of stimulation. It doesn’t matter if it is positive or negative stimulation; something gets our attention and we respond.
Tamara Rosier
This week I started using [this download] as part of my ongoing assessment of my time (and energy).
“We don’t have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions” (Brené Brown).
*top to bottom: Ko-fi booklets; personal planner; business planner; 5-year journal; 2024 creative work journal (sketch notes); processing journal (relationships)
What does all of this have to do with planning?
Chronicling the details of our days is a way of understanding ourselves + mapping our desires. Tracking (and reviewing) our thoughts and routine activities reveals our beliefs and values — and helps us to discover our pace and rhythms.
Showing up for ourselves on the page along with setting aside time and space on a regular basis for both tangible and intangible processing is how we come to identify our desires + get clarity.
- Everything is an opportunity. Everything we have lived and loved, questioned and lost is a part of who we are.
And, Braveheart, there is enough time and space and energy for our dreams and desires, wishes and want-to’s (even when we doubt that enoughness).
Our dreams take time. Without some type of visual chronicle to serve as a “map” — as well as a reminder and directive — the timelines of our desires and experiences become jumbled. What matters most becomes forgotten and ignored.
Having a system, a scaffolding of sorts, provides us with starting points + helps us to show up for ourselves on the page as we align our values with our actions.
- The 2024 Annual Kit provides instructional content to guide you in establishing a right brain planning practice.
The 2024 Annual Kit includes:
(1) Guide — content and principles regarding a right brain planning practice to foster your attention regarding your “constellations” [patterns, habits and rhythms] and compassion.
(2) Prompts and Template Pages — basic principles for a right brain planning practice including monthly guide words, prompts, art and themed content to provide a framework for a calendar year.
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit | field notes | Right Brain Planner® FAQ
2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit [Theme] Kaleidoscope Perspectives ✨ [Focus] — Noticing Beauty (within the kaleidoscope of your living: the ongoing, ever-changing “formations” of color and meaning)
❤️ 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 since 2008! 🎉 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 other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and subscriptions).
P.S. I have been devoting more time to writing here about my creative practice. 😊 I hope you will join me here, Braveheart. 🎉