One aspect of conscientiousness is relationality. In other words, being conscientious will be in a given moment with the particular people or circumstances of that moment. Relational.

The idea of relationality can also refer to how the now is a by-product of what has gone before. That fact can be explored as expansively as one wants. For example, one’s lineage. We meditate with this through the African wisdom-teaching that “I am the reason my ancestors existed.”