Awareness Noticing what is. Observing thoughts, feelings, and surroundings. 2. Curiosity Asking questions about your awareness. Wondering what else you can do with it. Exploring possibilities. 3. Meta-Awareness Awareness + Curiosity > Meta-Awareness. Realizing that you are aware. Observing your own noticing and reflecting on what you find. 4. Agency / Intentionality Choosing where to focus your attention and how to respond intentionally. Life design. Intentional time. Chosen

This journal is dear to me because it is the one that began my love and intrigue for journaling. The entire reason I started journaling was to keep me from sinking into a place where I believed everything in life was bad. I started really getting into journaling in 2021. I decided I would have a gratitude journal but, I felt too down for gratitude to be accessible so I started with a "what doesn't suck" approach. I would journal about decent weather, acceptable traffic on my

I've went back and read my own entries. I've been thinking about why I am no longer attached to my old journals . I plan on using their pages to create art pieces where I once would have done everything I can to protect them. Why? I know this is a shift for me. You don't just go from being protective over source material to just seeing it as art. Why is it a droste now? Why did it shrink? Why do I feel like I'm a staircase above it? Growth ⇄ Expansion Growth is upward, exp