This past week included outgrowing limiting spaces and heartfelt rest as I consider all the possibilities (the secret heart of time).
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done…you are fierce with reality.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
I continue to review and organize my digital files, along with compiling notes regarding the backstory of my right brain planning practice.
Tracking my days + counting weeks assists me in being attentive to my energies.
It helps me to be aware of the cyclical energies, habits and patterns of my living — and to resist overthinking/fretting about the “highs and lows” of those cycles.
- Chronicling these events also helps me to identify the details and decisions of what I can influence and modify — and release myself from any undue sense of duty or responsibility regarding what I cannot influence or modify.
- It is an opportunity to assess whether or not I am belonging to myself within my choices and actions.
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.
Look closely at the present you are constructing it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Alice Walker
This past week included enjoying special time with my children and grandchildren (along with healing conclusions and release for me); mile markers of accepting what cannot be changed and identifying relationships and situations I have no influence over.
- To let go often means we have to give up what we wanted so desperately; grief follows because this, too, is a loss.
- But we must remember that “despair turns to depression and abstraction when we try to make it stay beyond its appointed season and start to shape our identity around its frozen disappointments” (David Whyte).
A longing unfulfilled is a loss, Braveheart.
Claiming the events of my life allows me to belong to myself and embrace the fullness of the life I have, and to mourn the losses (even as I remain curious and resist becoming frozen in the sorrow of those losses).
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. 🎉
Why don’t we finish things?
An artist’s view | Robert Davis