Tweet Beginning of a day sets the tone for the rest of the day. For me personally, waking up at around 8, ideally without an alarm clock (this rarely happens), having a hot shower and then good breakfast, puts me in a relaxed mental state. I’m then ready to take on the world. Of course [...]
Ask the Reader: Do You Like Writing With Fountain Pens?
Tweet I love writing with fountain pens. The two favourite fountain pens I have are a Parker Frontier that my husband gave me as a present, and a Waterman pen that was a present from fellow colleagues when I worked at a Library during college. Both are good quality, solid pens. The ink just flows [...]
Journaling to Achieve Your Bucket List
Tweet Yvonne Root of Journal in a Box asked in response to my 40 Things to do Before 40 post, how would journaling aid me in that quest. The simple answer is that journaling helps me with everything. But that isn’t going to help you in understanding how you can use journaling to achieve your [...]
Journaling Exercise: The Stop Doing List
Tweet For a lot of people, the main reason why they don’t have enough time or money or resources to do what they want is because they spend all the time, money, and resources doing things they don’t want to do. Please don’t give me excuses about your responsibilities. For most people, it’s about the [...]
Journaling Exercise: Poet for the Day
Tweet When was the last time you read a poem? If you can’t recall, or if it was before last month, then your first assignment is to read a poem. Any poem. Just google poem, and you will have tons of choices. Here are some of my favourites: The Road Not Taken by Robert [...]
40 Things to Do Before 40
Tweet Today, I’m 30. I know it doesn’t change anything. I don’t feel any different than what I felt at 29. But still, it’s a new decade, and so it’s nice to make a big deal out of it. As I love having lists and projects, I decided make a list of 40 things I [...]
How to Get Your Inner Censor to Shut Up
Tweet This post is a result of an email from a reader. Nigel Burns mentioned in his email that he struggled to get his inner censor to shut up. I promised to write a post about it because this is an important topic. Nigel is not the only one, nor is he in the minority [...]
Journaling Exercise: I Remember…
Tweet Whether you are trying to write your memoires, or simply attempting to remember the past, this journaling exercise will help. This will also help if you are going through a process of self-discovery, because memories play an important role in that journey. This is a simple but powerful exercise. For the maximum results, do [...]
Kaizen Journaling – 12 Lessons Learned in 12 Months AND Two Announcements
Tweet Kaizen Journaling officially launched on April 17, 2012. I can’t believe one year has gone by so quickly. When 2012 began, I honestly had no idea I was going to do this. The only thing I had thought about was that I wanted to do journaling workshops some day. That’s it. That was [...]
On Attachment (of Human Kind not Emails)
Tweet Irma and Anthony – Photo by (c) Dolly Garland As most of you probably know, I’m in Ecuador at the moment, volunteering for three months working with children to promote literacy and arts. They are a great bunch of kids, and having been here now for month and a half, I’m getting to know [...]
