But back to the quote … often a good quote is like a good joke, it makes you think, or laugh, or both, and then you move on, but some one liners stick with you, and become actionable. This was the case for this one. 

I thought about my palace up there, about what bricks I could lay to reach it. This was at a time when my personal Q1 had one bullet point: Getting myself out of apathy and meaninglessness, and I reasoned that if I didn’t know why I was doing things, at least I’d like to know that I was doing something, and what. I’m putting it in here in Q3, because in itself, the BRICKS system is nothing, and also, working with it can easily become a Q3 carrying out tasks like a robot, to get a lot of bricks down. So I write about it here to remind myself that the system will only work for me when it makes me aware of doing things that matter. 

The system is 14 homemade mode categories. They often overlap. 

W- Wisdom 

A- Alignment / Awareness

L-Love 

C- Creativity / Contemplation

O-Orbits

E-Execution

H-Human

B-Body / Brain / Behaviour

R-Risk / Relating / Rejection / Resillience 

I- Input 

K- Knockout

S- Skill / Study

P-Playground (Dark or Happy)

J-Joker

It’s time to move on to the last part of this paper. 

BRICKS

If you’ve built castles in the air,

your work need not be lost.

Now put foundations under them.

- Osa Johnson

The idea for a BRICKS system came directly from this Osa Johnson quote. 

Sorry for breaking the Q3 atmosphere, but I didn’t know who Osa Johnson was, so I just googled her. It turns out she is the author of the book I Married Adventure, the best-selling non-fiction book of 1940. And I found all these pictures. 

Osa didn’t look like she had a problem with the Q3 trap at all, although perhaps with animal ethics? In any case, I’ll take her advice anytime on anything related to dream actualisation.