Personal Development
Personal development covers self-development, motivation, self-care, and mental health.
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8 Steps to Starting Your First Journal
[disclosure] Good Day! It’s another Tuesday in the quick march to the end of the year! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! My husband and I attended a lovely wedding. I wonder if the new bride kept a journal? Your First Journal Most of us have a lot of things on our minds, yet we don’t put enough of it down on paper. Many of those ideas and thoughts bouncing around in your head can sometimes start to feel overwhelming. It can be hard to remember each of those, and it can be very difficult to keep all of your thoughts organized without writing them down somewhere. A great way…
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Breaking Bad Habits
[disclosure] Good morning! Surprise – my children are out of school again! I don’t think we had this many holidays when I was a child. Maybe I have forgotten some days off, but it seems like there are more now. Am I showing my age? Should I be shaking my fist at a cloud? Haha! My son says that I’m grumpy – he’s a teenager. Anything I say that doesn’t give him everything he wants is grumpy and mean. Of course, it is. I look forward to the time when he’ll be too embarrassed to say that I was right… It will happen! But as a nod to the…
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Should You Start a Bullet Journal?
[disclosure] Hi, everyone! First, I want to thank everyone for their good wishes on our anniversary! We had a lovely time. We are going to continue the posts on journaling this month (Journaling 101, Mindfulness Journal) with a bit about bullet journaling. Of all the journaling methods around, the bullet journal is the easiest but has the most confusion surrounding it. You may have seen bullet journals before and thought that you could do it, only to find they require more work than you thought. The truth is, once you know how to make your own bullet journal, and how to use it properly, this form of journaling can…
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Who are the Most Important People in Your Life?
[disclosure] Happy Friday! Tomorrow is our 17th wedding anniversary! We got married in Atlanta — don’t we look young and fresh before children? LOL– Just kidding, children! Thomas and I are doing some low-key celebrating Saturday afternoon and evening. I have been pretty busy so I haven’t spent a lot of time planning anything so my husband came up with some cool things in Houston to visit. We haven’t seen a lot of Houston so it should be fun. Thinking about our 17 years together made me think about relationships — this is definitely the longest one I have ever been in other than with family. There are so many…
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Journaling Tips: The Mindfulness Journal
[disclosure] Mindfulness. This has become a very commonly-used word these days. Mindful living, mindful eating … Are there other ways you can incorporate this philosophy into your life? Mindfulness is a complete body, mind, and spiritual practice. Through meditation and contemplation, you begin to remove negative energy from your life. You also begin to see what is triggering you and how your body reacts. One way to manage this is with a mindfulness journal. Here we look at how to create a mindfulness journal and how to effectively use it every day. The Set-Up A mindfulness journal resembles what most would call a devotional journal. In many cases, people use…
