Last week I kept getting stuck because I was FEELING like my journals/planner were all wrong.

I made this Instagram video about how this might seem ridiculous but it's SO valid. The search for the perfect journal isn't about the journal, it's about how the journal is a container for so much and so all of our resistance ambivalence, etc, can get tied up in choosing the journal itself.

This weekend my new paper arrived and I did a ton of collaging. I had some dividers from when I tried to use a Happy Planner (there are things I like about Happy Planner planners but it's way too "good vibes only" and the prompts they use in the planners feel completely irrelevant to my life) and I cut them down a little to the size I want, and then collaged over them.

The collaged dividers FEELS PERFECT. They feel like containers and doorways. And I can keep collaging/writing/painting/whatever on them!

(I also want to sew a carrying bag for it, to keep it safe in my bag)

I also just CUT DOWN my 2023 planner!! Like, it was done on printer paper and I wanted 6"x9" so I just cut Sunday out of the planner pages (I can plan Saturday and Sunday in the same space), and then also made the page narrower... kind of a messy solution but it gives me a quick way to have a planner in the new size I want. For next year, I can do something nicer.

And I can put my Creative Genius Cards in it!!

I haven't been using the Creative Genius Cards as much lately, but I want to get back into that. And I want to make a card that shows the things I want to check in with each week when I do my planning, so I could just keep moving that card to each new week I plan.

I feel like I really have space to begin.

I have been doing Dream Book as my way of journaling since about 2018. I feel like I just got to "my next level" with it. It's not just about how the book looks, it feels like this is the right container for me to take it deeper? I don't know what that looks like right now and am so happy to be exploring it.

The first words I wrote in here were in the planner section, my focus from last week's Dream Status Report:

I treat myself and my life as precious.

That felt like the perfect "christening" for the new journal/planner/DreamBook.

This week I want to re-do (again! Yes, I did just do this a few weeks ago) the Dream Page and Dream Self Page. I feel I've been circling around some new layer of knowing what I REALLY want, and each time I do this I learn more.

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