LifeSpiral
The recurring creative movement through which life is noticed, interpreted, made, and shared—not a filing hierarchy.
◐ RefiningCurrent vocabulary
Dictionary / Lexicon
A quick recovery point for what LifeArts words mean now. Status marks keep working language from quietly becoming doctrine.
Awareness
The faculty that notices what arrives. It is not an Inbox; a capture tool or Inbox is simply a method used to remember what Awareness notices.
● DecidedFour Dimensions of Life
Health, Growth, Security, and Connection — the dimensions through which a life is understood. Previously called LifePillars.
● DecidedLifeLotus
The whole-life mandala: radial, overlapping and living, with Awareness at the centre and the Four Dimensions as petals. One experience may touch several petals at once.
◐ RefiningLens
A tool that changes magnification and focus — Dimension lens, Role lens, Time lens. Change the Lens. See what else comes into focus.
◐ RefiningTools
Practices and instruments used across Studies, Studios and Reviews; not a category of life.
◐ RefiningLifeRole
The role or posture from which a LifeArtist attends to life; current examples remain provisional.
◐ RefiningCreative Compass
Creative navigation through Imagine, Prepare, Act, and Share.
● DecidedStudio
A continuing physical, digital, or conceptual field of purposeful activity that preserves creative continuity.
● DecidedProject
A bounded undertaking inside a Studio.
● DecidedStudy
Curiosity examining a subject or experience without necessarily requiring a decision.
● DecidedReview
Navigation that looks back to decide what continues, changes, moves, or is released.
● DecidedSketchbook
A designed visual thinking space in which Studies and experiments can happen; never a questionnaire.
◐ RefiningLibrary
Material organized for retrieval because the LifeArtist wants to find it again.
● DecidedGallery
A curated selection of work that has reached a meaningful state of completion, expression, or sharing. Gallery is not terminal: a Gallery work may be reused, adapted, excerpted, republished, performed, or become material for new Studio work, while the original remains a Gallery piece.
● DecidedArchive
Inactive or completed material retained without crowding active environments.
● DecidedSquirrel / Sparkly Thing
A compelling capture that may be parked, reviewed, or released without becoming a commitment.
● DecidedStepping Back
A creative posture of changing distance so what is there can be seen more clearly.
● DecidedLifePalette
A personal collection of experiences, memories, feelings, observations, stories, sensory details, images, fragments, metaphors, and family lore kept within reach for later creating, communicating, and meaning-making. Entries may remain dormant indefinitely; none need to be finished or assigned.
◐ RefiningCapture freely. Commit deliberately.
Awareness notices without owning a decision. Captures are welcome; commitments are chosen. Material may live in LifePalette without action, while an intention/action system holds only what the LifeArtist has decided to act on in the foreseeable future.
● DecidedWorking principles
“An artist studies the subject. In LifeArts, the subject is your life.”
“Organize life according to meaning. Organize information according to retrieval.”
“A well-designed Studio helps you re-enter the work.”
“A Studio preserves creative continuity.”
“Capture freely. Commit deliberately.”
“Gallery is not terminal: a finished work can feed what comes next.”