← The Imaginal Act, thirty days

Week 1 · See · Day 07 of 30

The first weekly snapshot

Today's intent (planned)

Look back on seven days, count what happened including the misses, and seal a snapshot only if it is true for you.

The practice

  1. Set today's look-for in reality/log/<today>.md.
  2. Count the week from reality/witness.md and your day logs: entries by kind; signs primed and unprimed; look-fors set, came (yes) and missed (no). A not marked counts as set, neither came nor missed.
  3. Answer four questions, one line each. What is true now? What changed? What am I grateful for? One correction for next week?
  4. Read it back. If it is true for you, write reality/snapshots/<today>.md (Studio: Timeline). Front matter: snapshot: <today>, cadence: weekly, period: <day 1> → <today>, approved: true. Title: # Snapshot — <today> (approved, immutable). Then ## Atlas with a copy of your Atlas table; ## Witnessed this period with the lines sign n · win n · rep n · move n · opening n · lesson n · gratitude n, Signs: n primed · n unprimed and Intentions: set n · came n · missed n, using your counts; and ## Reflection with - True now:, - What changed:, - Grateful for: and - One correction:.
  5. From now on, it does not change. A correction is a new note or a new snapshot. With the plugin, the reality-snapshot skill drafts it and seals it only after your yes.

Why it works

Meaning

A week is long enough to see a shape and short enough to forgive. Sealing it is a small ceremony: you say, this is how it was, and let it stand. Whatever the numbers are, they belong to a week you lived.

Mechanism

A fixed review turns scattered days into one correction, which is where plans improve. Counting misses with hits matters because memory keeps striking hits and drops quiet misses, so an uncounted look-for always seems to work. Three days of look-fors is far too few to conclude anything. You are building a record you can read honestly in a month.

Tonight (reported)

Add an entry at the top of reality/witness.md, headed ### <today> <time> · gratitude (Studio: Witness):

  • Happened (fact): One thing from the week that went well.
  • Meant (my meaning): Why it mattered to you.
  • Did (action): Only what is done: the snapshot, if you sealed it.
  • Next (planned): Tomorrow you choose one aim.
  • Did it come? In the log: - Did it come: yes, no or not marked.