Created: 2025-10-06 [[Plans for the Big Vault Redo]] is so me. Good big or go home; nirvana or hell; all or nothing. And always shifting too quickly into teacher mode, wanting to teach the world to sing before I’ve learned to hum my own tune. It’s embarrassing how often and how easily I fall into these complexes. Thank goodness for the luxury of time to pause between idea and execution; for the writing that makes that pause time reflective and meaningful, and for Malaika who has the generosity of spirit and the skill to point to a phrase I’ve written and ask the right question at the right moment. I don’t need to redo my vault. I just need to add another bucket, add a bunch of properties and, above all, shift my perspective. My shift in perspective can start by getting rid of the idea of buckets or siloes. That makes it sound as if my notes are sorted into multiple folders, when they’re not. I segregate dreams and daily notes. Everything else goes into one folder. The closest I get to buckets is in having an elaborate set of MOCs. The architect in me is absolutely fine with that. Pay Attention, Be Amazed, and Tell About It will continue to be my trusted framework. Those MOCs hold the ideas and the processes important to me. I have a long way to go in adding notes for each area, but the structure is there to receive them. It works and doesn’t need changed. What I’ve realized over the last couple of days is that Pay Attention, Be Amazed, and Tell About It form a process loop or workflow that needs to be **applied** to meaningful themes. I’ve been focused on developing the content for those three areas, and that’s great, but my very strong orientation towards purposeful action and my desire to see life patterns and write about them “from soul” spells out the need for a fourth section to my vault, a place I’ll refer to, for now, as “Living It!” What are those meaningful themes? They are the half dozen major perspective shifts or journeys that are important to me in my third act: —> shifting from [[Ego]] to [[The Self]] in the journey of [[Individuation]] —> shifting from negative stereotypes of aging to wise elder in the journey of Arrien’s eight gates —> shifting from creativity as a skillset available to a fortunate few to being in relationship with creativity in the journey of awakening creativity —> shifting from narrow anxious concerns and having the world interpreted for me to a wider, holistic view in the journey of symbolic perception —> shifting from life as a series of mostly mundane events from birth to death to life through a mytho-poetic lens in the Fool’s journey through the Tarot —> shifting from a life solely of the mind to reuniting with bodily sensations in the journey of embodiment What I’m imagining right now is taking a topic, such as my drive for perfection, and using the Pay Attention, Be Amazed, Tell About It framework to examine that topic through one of the above perspective shifts. And then, some time later, the same topic through another of the perspectives. And another. Or maybe I employ several perspectives/lenses simultaneously. At the beginning, this has to be for me. If I write pieces in Living It! with awareness of an audience, I’m going to choke and play it safe. But I can alter properties to take these perspective shifts into account, and I’m going to set a goal for myself to include some Living It! writing in my Profound Journey vault in 2026. The collage I made for my new vault still holds. If anything, it’s more evocative of my vision than before. I’ll leave it to the viewer to take what you will from it. ![[Lasair Collage.webp|400]]