Attitude of Gratitude

Natasha — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:12:10 +0000

Behind the Design of the Grateful Day Journal

Last week I talked about the Everyday Joy Journal and shared all the things I love about that journal. Well, this week, I’m going to talk all about the Grateful Day Journal and the inspiration behind this journal and why it’s a great journal to capture your daily gratitude and cultivate it too.

For the last few years, I used a notebook or blank journal to write down my daily gratitude. But, I wanted something more and decided to create the type of gratitude journal I wish existed. I wanted a journal that had space for gratitude but I also wanted to go a little deeper and find ways to also cultivate more gratitude in my life. When I started to design this journal, I made a list of the things I wanted in this journal and most of the things I listed became what I really love about this journal. Here’s the list.

#1 Space for Gratitude and room for something extra.

The one thing I noticed about so many gratitude journals is how similar they all were. I wanted something different than what I was seeing. I knew I wanted plenty of space for you to write down the things you’re grateful for and to also have space to share:

A Highlight from your day
Answer a short prompted question about other things happening in your life
write an intention or affirmation for the day

As I created the inside pages I felt like seeing the same page design over and over again gets to be a bit mundane and anyone can easily loose interest. In this journal, there are multiple page designs that give you variety and changes things up. I wanted you to enjoy writing out the things your grateful for each day while also capturing highlights and good things from your life.

#2 Plenty of Prompts

Mixed in with the daily pages are prompts that allow you to write a little bit more about moments, memories and people you’re grateful for. The prompts are a space where you can take more time and writing space to reflect on events in your life that were important and celebrate them.

#3 Gratitude tips

Throughout the journal there are tips that inspire you to give, reflect and share gratitude with the people in your life. Each tip is focused on extending gratitude beyond just writing it down. These tips make gratitude an action that you can start to cultivate in simple and small ways.

What I love most about this journal is that whether you’ve been keeping a gratitude journal for a long time or you’re just starting, this journal is perfect at helping you practice gratitude and giving you space to go a little deeper. This journal is not your typical gratitude journal and that’s the one thing I wanted to make sure was reflected in the design. I wanted this journal to be fun, I wanted you to be excited to use it each day but in the end I want this journal to inspire you to make the intention to have an attitude of gratitude everyday.

One more thing…

Here are a links that shares the benefits of gratitude and how practicing daily gratitude can really change everything. This post also inspired the creation of this journal. You can check it out below.

The Benefits of Gratitude

Ok, so now that you know all about the inspiration behind this journal, Head over to the shop to get a peek at an alternate cover option and see the inside pages for this journal.

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Choose Joy

Natasha — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:17:50 +0000

Behind the Design of the Everyday Joy Journal

In this blog post, I wanted to go behind the design of the Everyday Joy Journal to share all the good things inside this journal and why I love it so much. So let’s get started.

When it comes to Joy, it’s something I think we’re all chasing. Especially now. But what I am learning is we don’t have to chase joy. It’s really all around us. Joy can be found in the small moments of our daily life. It can also be found in those big milestone too. The idea behind this journal was to capture daily moments of joy and to also show ways to cultivate more joy in our lives.

Here are some of the basic features of the journal:

This Journal has a hard cover
Inside you will find a rainbow of color. Just one more way to add more joy.
Guided journal pages designed to capture all the moments and memories from each day
There are journal entries for about 100 days

There is no right or wrong way to use this journal. Whether you use it daily or weekly, do whatever works best for you.

Favorite Journal Features

INSIDE PAGES

The pages are set up to start with a page I call the “kick off”. It’s a page that would start off the week if you’re using this journal everyday. Each “kick off” page is different and is designed to be an interactive way to discover joy with different prompts for you to answer.

After the kick off pages there are the daily pages that have three prompted sections for you to answer. You can write on every line or skip a section. That is totally up to you.

The last page that closes out the week, it you are using this journal daily, is a prompt page. This section is designed to have you go a little deeper and answer question about yourself, a memory, people and places that brought you joy. You can use every single line of this space or just write a few sentences, it’s totally up to you.

The reason I set up the inside pages like this is I noticed in a lot of guided journals, the pages were the same everyday. While what you write each day will be different, it’s nice to have variety. Just like this journal is about joy I wanted this to be a journal you enjoyed using. I just didn’t think a bunch of pages that were the same would do that.

JOYFUL TIPS

This is my favorite part of the journal. Throughout this journal, there tips that are designed to help you cultivate more joy. A lot of these tips correlate with the journal prompts. The idea behind these tips is give you a way to spread a little joy beyond these journal pages.

BONUS SECTION

This section was created for you to reflect on what you’ve discovered while using this journal plus more journal prompts and tips for you to keep journaling.

I love this journal. I started using a sample shortly after quarantine began. I noticed that this journal helped me shift my focus from everything I was anxious about and helped me see even in all the uncertainty, joy can still be found. I have now started to see moments, conversations and other things from my day that I want to write down in this journal to remember.

My hope as I created this journal is that you would be excited to use it to capture all the good and joyful things happening in your life and that when you looked back at it years later, you can see all the joy-filled things that were happened and it makes you smile.

To get a peek of the inside pages and alternate cover option click here. If you have any questions about the journal just leave me a comment and let me know what you want to know.

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NEW Journals are in the Shop!

Natasha — Wed, 20 May 2020 12:00:00 +0000

The journals are live and in the shop. In the coming weeks, I will share more about these journals from the initial ideas, the design and more so check back for updates. I’ll also share some helpful tips for using each journal too. I love these journals and I hope that as you use them that they are a great addition to your day. To learn all about the journals click here to start shopping.

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Finally!

Natasha — Wed, 13 May 2020 12:18:00 +0000

Hi, how are you? I know things have been slow here but I’m starting to find my rhythm while being home so I’ll be blogging a more regularly now. I feel like the last time I was on the blog I talked about NEW products I’ve been working on and was excited to launch. Well… the plan was to launch them in April and of course that wasn’t going to happen. But now, these NEW things are coming next week!

As a shop owner, this is an interesting time. The question circling my mind was do I release new products or do I wait. After talking with my sister and girlfriends, I decided to move forward because I think these new products will be a helpful resource during this time. So what is it? Well, I created 3 guided journals that I’m truly excited about. The journals cover a different topic and it’s my hope that they are a helpful resource during not just this time in all of our lives but at anytime of your life.

Grateful Day. It is a guided gratitude journal with prompted pages that allow you space to share gratitude each day.

Everyday Joy is a journal all about finding joy in our daily lives while also cultivating more.

Heart of Grace is a faith devotional/journal. If you’re looking to grow your faith or learn more, it’s a great journal that meets you wherever you are in your faith journey.

Once my city/state was ordered to shelter at home, my anxiety, fear and worry increased A LOT. Hoping to ease all the feelings I was feeling, I grabbed the sample journals and started using them myself. What I found is that the anxiety, fear and worry started to decrease and I was discovering more gratitude and joy as I worked and stayed at home.

I’ve been using these journal samples for over a month and now I find myself excited to add things to these journals and I can tell it’s changed my perspective on this time. The other thing I have loved about these journals is how they’ve given me the ability to document this time so that years from now I can look through these journals and remember what this whole experience was like.

I really can’t wait for you to see these and to get one or three for yourself. My hope when I created these journals is that they are a helpful resource for you. I hope that you use them to make your own discoveries and capture special moments and memories. I’ll be sharing more next week and revealing some of the covers too. Until then, if you have any questions or want to know more, sign up for the newsletter so you can be in the know when the journals are live plus access to a free printable library, promos and more.

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NEW May Journal Prompts

Natasha — Wed, 06 May 2020 12:50:37 +0000

Hi, how are you? I’m hanging in there. I hope you are doing well too!

This has been such an interesting time and I know I have felt all the feelings since sheltering at home. As I start to slowly get back into the swing of things, I’ve started to create new rhythms and routines for myself. One thing I wanted to do is get back to sharing here on the blog. What better way to start than with new journal prompts.

This months prompts are all about lessons learned, looking forward and finding the good in an uncertain time. You can download the new May prompts below.

May 2020 Journal Prompts

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Oh! if you’re looking for April’s prompts, I did a mini journal challenge on Instagram via my stories, you can check it out here.

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Focus on the Good

Natasha — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:32:22 +0000

I had blog post scheduled for the last two weeks of this month. But given how crazy things are all over the world right now, I’m going to close out this series on focus by looking at what’s good. To do that, I’m sharing a printable I created to help us to see light in the uncertainty right now.

I am going to continue to post but it will be light and sporadic. Just like you I’m processing and adjusting and trying to just keep going even when I’m scared, sad or just anxious. We’ll get through this one day at a time.

Oh and if you also want to focus on the good, join me and download this printable and we can see the bright spots during the hard days. This is my small way to help us all have a little more hope and joy.

Focus on the Good

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12 Ways to Improve Your Focus

Natasha — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:00:25 +0000

Who isn’t easily distracted these days? There are so many things that demand our attention and it’s easy to loose focus. If you’re looking for ways to limit the distractions and to gain more focus here are 12 ways you can improve your focus.

Stop Multi-tasking. As much as we all believe we’re good at multi-tasking, the truth is we really aren’t.
Take Breaks.
Exercise your mind and body
Make time for rest- you go all the time, it’s not healthy. Make time for yourself to rest.
Get plenty of sleep. Like with rest, our bodies are better when we get a good nights sleep. There is nothing beneficial that happens by cheating your body of it’s sleep.
Meditate- this one is a struggle for me but I’m still working to be able to do this. There are plenty of apps that can help if you struggle like I do.
Unplug for at least 15 minutes each day or more. Yes, get off the social media. We are so connected and everything around us is going 24/7 but we don’t have to do the same. Give yourself some time off social media. If you have an iPhone it has a time control that you can set to limit app use as shut your phone down at a certain time. I use it and I can honestly say I’m better for it. When I’m not using this control I’m a hot mess.
Listen to music. No don’t listen to music and do work, just sit and listen to some music. If you feel like dancing well, you’re doing two things at the same time that help improve your focus.
Cut the distractions. If you have a task you need to complete, remove everything that will hinder your focus.
One thing at a time. This goes back to the first point in this post. We can’t do it all at once so just focus on one task and getting it done before moving to the next task.
Eat Healthy. Look, I love gummy bears and cookies like the next person and I balance those by trying to eating healthy most of the time. You know your life and body and what works for you but a lot of sugary snacks or being fueled by caffeine isn’t good at keeping you focused long term.
Focus on Small Goals or Action Steps.

Hopefully one or more of these tips will help you to improve your focus. Which of the tips above resonates with you? Leave me a comment and let me know and also tell me what you do to stay focused.

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NEW March Journal Prompts

Natasha — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:06:44 +0000

I can’t believe it’s March. January felt like it lasted for 5 years while I blinked and February came and went. While, I can’t believe it’s March, I’m sooo ready for Spring. I’m also ready for less rain and more sun. If you’re ready for Spring like me you will like this month’s journal prompts. In addition to prompts about Spring, there are plenty of prompts that center around this month’s theme, Focus.

Click the button below to download this months prompts. If you’re new to journaling, and want some tips on getting started. I’ve shared a lot of tips and information just click here.

March 2020 Journal Prompts

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In Need of Last Minute Valentines?

Natasha — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:00:00 +0000

If you looked at your calendar and realized Friday is Valentine’s Day and you don’t have anything to give out? Don’t worry, we’ve got you. I’ve linked all the Valentine printables we’ve got below for you to download and enjoy.

Here’s a little more info about the Valentine’s Day cards, they’re 3.5 x 5 in size and can fit a corresponding envelope. To print out on 8 1/2 x 11 paper just use your favorite card stock and hit print

Valentine’s Day Printables Set #1

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Valentine’s Day Printables Set #2

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Valentine’s Day Printables Set #3

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Don’t Forget The Tags!

If you’re giving out treat bags to friends or family or you need a cute little tag for your kids treats he’s giving to the class, these Valentine’s Day tags are perfect for all the sweets treats!