Today is Day 100! To commemorate the completion of 100 Liminal Days and celebrate my accomplishment, this post includes 100 lessons this project has taught me since embarking on this journey on September 1, 2025. On this final day of 2025, I am thrilled to share what I’ve learned over 100 days of experimentation. This is a list I will revisit when I need inspiration and to remember the incredible lessons of this project. I’m so grateful.

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100 Lessons 100 Liminal Days Revealed

1. You can use liminal seasons to self-initiate, instead of waiting for life to initiate you.
2. A self-initiation process gives you more control and can help you avoid circling around the same lessons.
3. External accountability strengthens focus and follow-through.
4. Record-keeping and habit-tracking keeps you truthful with yourself.
5. Dream interpretation is a personal symbolic process revealing your soul’s deepest desires.
6. Meditation can interrupt intense physical discomfort and bring you back to calm and focus.
7. “Eating death cookies” means doing the scary, avoided thing. Doing the thing gives you back life energy.
8. Avoidance drains more life energy than doing the hard thing.
9. Your body holds more wisdom than you realized, so taking care of it is everything.
10. When daydreaming about the life you want, a tendency toward practicality can be a constraint worth noticing.
11. Life is full of transitions and decision points that alter your story.
12. Recovering artistic safety starts with honoring previous versions of yourself.
13. Sometimes our identity is shaped by some form of dissonance, and it matters to name it.
14. We are not meant to go with the flow, we are meant to become the flow.
15. Crazymakers and energy vampires can derail your creativity.
16. You are responsible for the delay your distractions create.
17. Recurring symbolic visions revealed your life’s story arc: cutting away, witnessing fruit, then becoming the flow. Watch for further iterations.
18. Death is required before a rebirth is possible.
19. Letting go ought to be a dissolution of ego, not just a change of habits.
20. Your authentic desires are discovered “deep within” but are destined to be shared “on the shore.”
21. You are responsible for quantity, God’s got the quality.
22. Solitude in nature can restore your creativity and spiritual connection.
23. Reflecting on time autonomy reveals where you’re already living your “dream day” elements.
24. Debt freedom can buy you spacious time to linger and discover who you are and what you want.
25. A quarterly journal lookback can reveal or remind you of patterns, whispers, and days of note.
26. Journal lookbacks can connect “random” events into meaningful threads.
27. Recreating lost art can create a felt sense of completion and healing.
28. Practicing creating art matters more than getting it perfect (even if it looks childish).
29. Resistance is inevitable, and public accountability can keep you on course.
30. On overwhelmed days, your temptation may be to mess around instead of doing the work. Use this as a signal to see if more integration is needed versus more work.
31. Anger is fuel, not something to suppress.
32. Anger is a map that shows your boundaries and reveals where you want to go.
33. Anger is meant to be acted upon, not acted out.
34. Truth-telling is kindness: first to yourself, then to others.
35. A boundary you don’t speak will often become distance you create.
36. Fear of “what will they think of me?” can block the unique work you’re meant to do.
37. You can be 44 years old and still feel intimidated by your parents’ imagined judgment.
38. Recovering imagination includes retrieving abandoned fragments of yourself.
39. Your creative muse can be bruised when you protect your vulnerability too tightly.
40. You don’t have to live only in “high safe places” of spirituality. You can integrate and not avoid the world.
41. Letting go of old identities is the first step toward getting through a life transition, and it cannot be skipped.
42. Metamorphosis timing matters: the window for change doesn’t stay open indefinitely.
43. Creating art can be how you “look evil in the eye” without becoming consumed by it.
44. Love leads better than fear in hard conversations.
45. Daily Pages are where you tell yourself the truth. Practice this daily forever!
46. Creativity is how you embrace and ground into reality, not escape it.
47. You can be “interruptible” and still maintain boundaries to protect focus.
48. Undervaluing your work is a pattern worth changing. Charge what you are worth!
49. Recovering possibility includes learning to let the flow manifest “where it will.”
50. Holding lightly to gentle exploration supports creative expansion.
51. Artists and entrepreneurs need downtime because slow thinking is where creativity blossoms.
52. Protecting downtime takes courage because “The Virtue Trap” and guilt pressure you to give it away.
53. The true self is healthy, occasionally anarchistic, and knows how to say no and yes.
54. Your evolution isn’t linear. It can jump timelines.
55. A protector part of yourself may try to block your desires with practicality. Remember to dream big anyway.
56. A meaningful life can include both artist and entrepreneur — not a forced either-or.
57. Less hustle, more flow is not “no hustle,” but instead means learning to move along the spectrum.
58. Becoming water is releasing rigid definitions of who you are and what you do.
59. A disciplined project can still become a sophisticated way of avoiding life, and it’s worth checking in with yourself on your ‘why’.
60. Sometimes you want to BE versus DO, and wisdom chooses to honor that feeling.
61. Integrating soul work into real life requires slowing down and letting it breathe.
62. Too much self-development without free space isn’t sustainable.
63. The “second act” required changing the container: fewer writing hours, more practice hours. Hold your plans lightly.
64. When excavating your soul becomes too heavy, return to your keystone habits to stabilize again.
65. Attuning to the body helps you learn to balance all aspects of being in the middle space, the liminal, the fertile darkness of becoming.
66. Abundance can be redefined beyond money (time, embodiment, creativity, relationships, spirituality).
67. Abundance is a multi-leveled fountain, not an ocean.
68. “Be true to yourself” is the advice that cuts through every creative decision.
69. Sometimes art takes on a life of its own. You’re more conduit than creator.
70. Listening is a creative practice: “We’re not thinking something up; we’re getting something down.”
71. “Ultimate nothingness” (Wuji) is the space where something new is born. Respect and love the liminal seasons of your life.
72. Focus on building Huang, not building wealth. Wealth will follow the flow of your Qi, or life energy.
73. Trying beyond your capacity to understand can drive you to repression.
74. Standing in Wuji is embodying the liminal space in physical form: you don’t solve the void, you learn to stand in it until direction emerges.
75. Catch Qi like a sail. Your job is to prepare the system to receive flow (open the pathways), not to force clarity by effort alone.
76. IFS teaches that there are no bad parts of you – all protectors are trying to help.
77. All-or-nothing thinking creates paralysis. A 10-minute experiment can break gridlock.
78. Standing in Wuji translates to becoming more self-led by embodying the in-between.
79. Flip-flopping between extremes can be explained as polarized parts of yourself, not a moral failure.
80. In collective transition, you need strength and wisdom to sit between extremes versus choosing a side. This space is not a mushy middle, it is where we wrestle with truth and hold the tension between opposites.
81. Hustle is meant to give us momentum, but it cannot be a constant state of being.
82. Your body has a language. Paying attention expands your power.
83. You deserve to be happy, safe, healthy, and at peace.
84. You can change your life with “1% shifts” instead of grand upheavals.
85. In a liminal season, your soul feels like time collapses so the way through isn’t speed or a new plan. It’s retraining the inner senses through balance work and heavy work.
86. Heavy soul work needs guardrails: it should be chosen (not forced), time-bound, and followed by integration, because “dive deep, then surface” is the rhythm that restores soul proprioception.
87. Integration is learning to hold tiger energy and mountain stillness at the same time: vitality to act without urgency, and stability to wait without freezing.
88. Children don’t care about timing. Your inner artist needs concessions and play.
89. Success can trap artists into formula. Even your own formula can leach creative truth.
90. Movement brings you into the present and can break mental loops.
91. Pain isn’t always malfunction. It can be a messenger.
92. Breathwork helped you unlock frozen shoulder by releasing trauma through the body. Continue this practice for a healthy mind, body, and soul.
93. Your “artist altar” can be a ritual space that shifts you into creative mode.
94. Reviewing data periodically helps you identify and improve the weakest habit.
95. Reordering your day to put the habit that needs improved first thing is an effective strategy.
96. Deliberate practice is about constant improvement, not just checking the box.
97. Purpose speaks to output. Dharma speaks to destiny.
98. The liminal space can protect you like a cocoon, and surrendering to it is the first step toward emerging.
99. In transition, steadiness precedes clarity. Lower urgency first, then options multiply. Practice within the “dojo” of the in-between instead of sprinting for an answer.
100. The right amount of structure creates spaciousness for Spirit and creativity, and DUO (dynamic unifying opposition) is a model for that grounded-yet-spacious way of living.

What’s to Come in 2026

I’ve finished the 100 day commitment, and now I have my soul proprioception back – that is, I know who I am, what I want, and where I am going. I will continue to write 1-2 posts per week on these topics of creativity, qigong, dreamwork, and finding our way through those in-between seasons of life. I will continue to send my weekly newsletter, share weekly qigong practice videos, and my art. Stay tuned via the newsletter for announcements on live qigong classes online and other projects I’m cooking up for you. The project taught me so much, but these lessons are not only for me. Let’s keep going!

Happy New Year to you, friends!

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