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Atomic habits build character, grit, tenacity, and the determination to reach your goals. Goals are wonderful, and I have been tracking mine since 2019. However, when I read Atomic Habits by James Clear in 2022, I was intrigued by the concept that life-long gains could come through tiny, incremental changes. After all, I was a…

Use Your Bullet Journal Index To Index Your Favorite Recipes, Or Your Least Favorite Neighbors. “Mrs. Betsey Fremantle (née Wynne) kept diaries throughout her life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, diaries that were later published by her great-granddaughter Anne Fremantle. The index to volume I, prepared by Anne, contains the following entry: dislikes Bombelles…

This has been my second most requested blog post. (First is how to use bullet journaling for goals planning and goals mapping). Here are my favorite tools, starting in order of importance. For Bullet Journaling Essentials First, best pens for bullet journaling on tomoe river paper. Frixion erasable .38 pens “When I make a mistake,…

Bullet Journaling How To Set Goals Part II In part one of this series, I explained how to use the goals pages (or any pages) of my NightOwl Journal to draw a life map and then your first 1-5 list. Now you have your weekly and daily pages to help you track your progress. I…

Walk towards your goals in 2025. News year’s resolutions don’t have to be made in January. And they don’t have to be resolutions, which are white knuckle ways of muscling through something that is guilt-driven and usually result in failure. Instead, make yourself a map.  (The following mind map is purely fictional and any resembles…

Why starting a daily gratitude habit could change your life. A daily gratitude habit is not a chore. It’s a gift to yourself. “The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”– Robert Holden On Sunday, we went to Hefner Lake and watched the seagulls. We watched…

It is beautiful to see the incredibly artistic records of life bullet journalers have created. I celebrate them and the joy they bring to the creators and the viewers like me. But it is also sometimes disheartening to see how the bullet journal method, invented by Ryder Carroll and customized and built upon by many…

I have a huge decision coming up, and sometimes having a huge decision paralyzes me. This is an exercise I sometimes do that is helping me now, that helped me recently, and I hope it will help you. Affirmation 1: Everything will be all right. Write this affirmation out. Then journal all the worse case…

It’s thin but mighty. Tomoe River paper is thin but mighty. When my Hobonichi Cousin first came in the mail, a memory that’s still precious to me, I fell instantly in love. There was so. much. paper. One for every day of the year, plus all the weeks and months had two. And it was…