Welcome to day ten of our challenge! Today’s prompt is to find a heart shape in nature. We are well on the way to growing…
Welcome to day nine of our challenge! Today our prompt is to dance across the room. Now I don’t mean you need to stand up…
Today you are going to draw your day for the happy journal challenge. 🙂 Before you get nervous because you don’t consider yourself an “artist”…
When you think about all of the amazing foods in this world, it’s pretty staggering. But most of us stick to the same old meals…
Here we are, on day six of the happy journal challenge. I’m so glad you’ve joined us! Today we’re going to write a love note.…
Today’s prompt for the Happy Journal Challenge is to read a book, or easier yet, to read a chapter in your favorite book. Giving ourselves the…
Hi everyone! I’m Jennie, author of the book, Happy Journal, Happy Life, and your host of the happy journal challenge. We are on a mission…
Welcome to Day Three of the Happy Journal Challenge! Today’s prompt is a question: How can you make your world more beautiful today? It comes…
Welcome to day two of the happy journal challenge! In the next 30 days, we are going to grow our mindfulness and happiness muscles as…
Welcome to the happy journal challenge! Today’s prompt is to enjoy a laugh, particularly a child’s giggle. If you’re a mom, this will be a…
Hi everyone! I’m Jennie, author of the book, Happy Journal, Happy Life, and your host of the #happyjournalchallenge. In the next 30 days, we are going to grow our mindfulness muscles as we look for and expect the good things in our lives.
Let me be really honest here. I know there are a lot of reasons why a happiness challenge might seem out of place right now. Every single one of us has difficulties in our lives, whether they are physical, spiritual, emotional. And we all have friends and families who are struggling right now too. This is not an attempt to be Pollyanna and blindly dance through life.
During the month of February, I hosted a 30 day happy journal challenge here on my blog. It was So Much Fun. For 30 days,…
Of all the planning methods out there, I have discovered the simple bullet journal method to be my favorite. It has been the most beneficial…
Laura Ingalls Wilder said it best: “It is the sweet simple things in life which are the real ones after all.” I don’t know how…
I love my art journal and would LOVE to someday go on an artist retreat. In the meantime, today I’m going to share with you…
I’ve been writing in a journal since I was six years old, and in that time I’ve encountered a lot of surprised comments, random thoughts…
Join us as we explore the varied and fun world of journaling in the Journalista Challenge! This challenge is now an online course that includes…
Are you a planner girl? A list writer? A journalista? I am all the above but when I saw the dot journal movement start up a couple of years ago, I kind of, um, rolled my eyes. I LOVE to create and make things so you would think that creating layouts for my planner would be super fun.
But when I scrolled through the bullet journaling (also called dot journaling) images on Instagram and Pinterest, all I could conjur up was feelings of overwhelm. I have to use a ruler? These pages are PERFECT and GORGEOUS and wow, I don’t have time for that.
So I put it off.
When I first heard of bullet journaling, I was intrigued. A system where I could virtually make my own planner, where I could stash notes…