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I don't care for the term 📓 "junk journaling", but I don't care for the term 📓 "junk journaling", but I also don't care the what the kids call things or why they care about them as long as ✂️ ephemera and 🎀 butterfly clips are in demand and high supply.
Bring your own: 🖍️ Markers to draw on your airpla Bring your own:

🖍️ Markers to draw on your airplane window over the clouds.
🐈 Cat. BYOC. Cats are cool.
👀 Binoculars as a reminder to look up (and identify birds)
🤹‍♀️ Balls to juggle with. What are those called? They're like hacky sacks. 
🪩 Disco ball to transform any space into a dance floor.
☂️ Umbrella. That's just practical. And I don't want to carry mine.
🎉 Confetti to throw out of your pocket at pivotal moments.
🫧 Bubble wand to amplify any activity's fun level.
🥨 Soft pretzel so I can eat it. I really like pretzels.
💌 Stationery and stamps to write a love letter.
⚔️ Sword. Otherwise this won't be an interesting sword fight.
🍴 VIP sign for dining booths to clarify your importance.
🔱 Trident. I lost mine.
🎧 Headphones to give your daily tasks a soundtrack.
📟 Pager in case you need to get ahold of me.
🧋 Fancy straws for birthday dinners (instant water upgrade).
🥤🍬🌋 🥤🍬🌋
🩷 Scream “THE WORLD IS ALIVE!” 💛 Go to sit in a sp 🩷 Scream “THE WORLD IS ALIVE!”
💛 Go to sit in a spot every day no matter what the weather is and just notice the nature; try to talk/sing to it
🩵 Challenge yourself to believe in happy endings
🩷 Watch movies with happy endings
💛 Ask for what you want
🩵 Let nature be
🩷 Don’t reroute rivers or mess with seasons
💛 Don’t try to control things
🩵 Say hello to nature when you walk past it, announce yourself
🩷 Don’t expect life to look like you
💛 List things that make you gasp and say ooh, ahh, mmm
🩵 Make sure your education includes the neck and waist down
🩷 Explore things from new angles, perspectives, filters, subjects, levels, cultures, speeds, emotions, mediums, modalities
💛 Incorporate movement into every day; not just exercise but fluid movements (twirling, hopping, flicking your hand, snapping your fingers, curling your toes, shimmying your shoulders, run your hands along textures, put your face against cold objects)
🩵 Find unique ways to move from one space to the next
🩷 Leave the house
Some of my favorite things about August: ⤵️ 🩷 Giz Some of my favorite things about August: ⤵️

🩷 Gizmo's 11th Birthday Party (Highland Cow Themed) 🐄 with inflatable mazes, bouncy houses, water slides, + real cows and a baby pig named Gizmo 🐷

🧡 Shopping for 📝 stationery and &🪀 vintage toys in Rockville, 2nd Chance Toyz, Collectibles Corner 🧸 (including going to 3 different Five Below stores 🛒 to find Vol. 1 of the  junk journal sticker books by Pipsticks)

💛 Walked around Marley Station Mall, ate Sbarro's, 🍕 and smoked in the cool goth kids smoking section 🚬 (with a sign that says no smoking)

💚 Moved the rest of my main things to Nick's house 👩‍💻 (like my desktop!), texted "I'll be home in 5" instead of "I'll be back to the house in 5", 🏠 and began the process of moving out of my house

🩵 Visited the mosaic mirror yard 🪞 + found a very cute + 📚 colorful little library

💜 Made invisible ink paintings 🖌️ at Creative Alliance Kerplunk Day

🩷 Got 89 horse awards at Scrap Bmore 🐴🏅

🧡 The girls made me things: 🎁 air clay toothbrush, Halloween cat necklace, pink beaded butterfly bracelet, and a pink + yellow keychain 💍

💛 Ate pupusas in the parking lot; 🅿️ hunger is the best seasoning

💚 Playing Phase 10 🃏 with everyone and continuing to forget what phase I was on and laying down my cards like "read 'em and weep, boys!" but I was so off

🩵 Forgot Jordan's name and guessed it was Javier or Johannesburg + now I call him Javi for short (and fun) 😂

💜 Realized I've been eating tamales wrong (not supposed to eat the corn husk) 🚫🌽
 
🩷 Started driving my dad to church 🚗⛪ so I make sure I see him every week and one week we took him to Lake Waterford to see the ducks 🦆

🧡 Asked Merriment Makers to send sympathy cards 💌 to Ashley and her mom in support of her step-dad (and they came through like joy soldiers)

💛 Found the cup/blocks I played with as a kid in my dad's stuff 🧸

What did you love about this month? 💬
2 questions for you: ⤵️ 💕 what things do you beli 2 questions for you: ⤵️

💕 what things do you believe are easy? 💕 what do you know you're good at?

for me, I would say I am good at 🎭 performance art, 👗 putting together an outfit that will get compliments and 🗣️ spark conversations with strangers, ⚡️ being audacious, 🍌 being silly, 😜 loving being weird and not caring what other people think, 🅿️ getting good parking spaces, 🎟️ being lucky and winning raffles. 💕 and I also believe those things are easy. 

things i have believed are difficult: 🔹 being in a healthy relationship, 🔹 making and keeping money, or 🔹 having easy and positive mental and physical health.

but why are those things difficult? 🤷🏻‍♀️

🚫 the answer is they aren't.

they're no different in any of the things i am good at and the things I've felt were difficult. ⚖️

some people would say they're great at making money or having a healthy body, but don't find expressive dressing or speaking to strangers easy or natural.

🟰 but we're the same. those things are technically the same. 

the only difference that exists is: ⤵️

1) the belief about whether or not it's easy
2) the practice and reps to experiment, research, and apply tactics that work to create that goal for yourself which only come when you believe it's possible

the things you believe are easy will become things you know you're good at. 🌻

so maybe you can start to pretend to believe the things you find difficult are actually EASY. 👀 see what happens.
This is the problem with AI. This is clearly a pho This is the problem with AI. This is clearly a photo of ME. 🐥👑🫧
🧠 You have 167,000 thoughts every day. 95% of the 🧠 You have 167,000 thoughts every day.

95% of them are the same as the day before. 💿 Broken BS record. 🤦🏻‍♀️ That's way too many thousands of thoughts to think every day forever.

45% of your behavior (actions!) is based on habits. ⚡️ AKA if you've got a routine, ritual, or something you do as second nature... you're basically 2X as likely to actually follow through with it. 🔁

So. If you're feeling like you're in a rut, stuck, or on autopilot... 🧟‍♀️ let's start with thinking something different. And then doing something different.

But let's break it down. ⤵️

So the thing to think is how you wish you felt. If you're on autopilot and a 🧚‍♀️ fairy godmother came down to grant a wish for how you could feel, what would you choose? 🪄 Alive? Exuberant? Hopeful? 

Now that you know it, you have to do something so the fairy godmother actually comes to your house. 🎒

Homework: 🤔 You have to figure out something you can add into your daily and/or weekly routine that will help you feel (or get closer to feeling) like the magic thing you wished for.

📰 If you want to feel hopeful, could you make it a homework assignment to watch inspiring documentaries or only read good news for a week?

💫 If you want to feel alive, could you assign yourself the task of walking in the woods barefoot or looking at the stars? Or driving with your hand out the window?

So the thing we're doing here is 🔹 identifying how we want to feel (think differently) and then 🔹 finding a habit to begin that will help it make that feeling more accessible (act differently).

And as much as it seems like adding a new habit will move you towards just a different KIND of autopilot or rut.. you're right, dude. 🤣 It does. We are in a constant flux of ritual. It's just up to you to decide what habits you participate in.

Like, you know you gotta eat dinner. 🍽️ But you decide what goes on the plate.

So. How are you gonna mix it up? ⤵️

PS - If you're bored, 📧 DM me BORED and I'll send you a random assignment. 

#merrimentmaking #stuckinarut #mixitup #autopilotoff
So many options to... ☀️ Feel good! 🎨 Create good! So many options to... ☀️ Feel good! 🎨 Create good! + 🌎 Do good!

Come see how your life can be more fun and simple. 🔗
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