You may already be familiar with designing your own worksheets. But when it comes to an entire notebook/journal you’ll leave it to shopping at Target down the journal isle. You see the beautiful journals and think this would be so easy to make. Yet you have no idea where to even start. Here are the simple steps to create yours. Several programs exist that will print your product and provide a platform to sell through. Some of the programs I have used are KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing), Lulu printing, and Vervante. You can sign up totally free and then choose your preferences in design. They all offer print on demand…

We all have two ears and one mouth for a reason. It is so we can do twice the amount of listening over talking. Often when we hear others talking we are already thinking of a response before they finish. This, shows how closed off we can be to what others are saying. We aren’t responding to the conversation we are just responding to be correct. This path doesn’t lead to growth, it actually leads to ignorance. What is true growth? How do we achieve growth? Is this an elevation of thought, or are we all just ignorant? Have you ever heard the term ignorance is bliss? I learned this…

Several times in life I have found myself feeling like an utter failure. Playing the scenario over and over in my head and trying to find the exact move where went wrong. Ultimately a complete waste of time and energy. Even if I could find the exact moment. There is nothing that can be done to go back and change it. I heard this phrase that everything is fixable. At first it almost went over my head. The second time I heard it, I was able to let it sink in. I was blown away and it was completely out of my comfort zone. Every single time that I started…

Goals are great for direction, but often they create a cycle of extremes. It can be easy to become obsessive over goals, so much so that they eat, sleep, and breathing them. The opposite is where as soon as you don’t succeed it can trigger into a spiral of depression and defeat. For many people this could amplify perfectionism if you already struggle with wanting everything to be perfect. At the Time of Setting Goals It seems completely feasible to go from 0-60 when setting a new goal. This approach can very quickly lead to burn out. Often starting out strong but not actually being able to keep the momentum…

S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Reasonable, and Timeframe) goals is something we all have heard. For as long as I can remember, I have always found it extremely difficult to set any goals. Baffled by the struggle I felt around goals. I insisted on not believing in goals, due to this internal struggle. Time and time again I would find myself setting an achievable goal and then be disappointed that I didn’t reach it. What might be stopping you from setting goals Factors that play a role in my struggle, is motivation. I am not money, or prize motivated. When I set a goal it always sounds nice. A cycle of…

I often describe myself as a recovering perfectionist. Many times I have felt the need to make something absolutely perfect. It would cause me this intense feeling of torment by not being able to achieve this perfect vision I developed inside of my head. I vividly remember as a child how I would re-write my homework over and over again, until I could complete the entire page without making a single eraser mark. (Imagine being a lefty with a pencil. Making it through a full page and no smudge marks was a daunting task). The feeling of needing everything to be perfect has often stop me from even getting started.…