At the Rotary District Conference, I was reminded that I need to be keeping a journal, and be writing in it every day. I thought "Does February count as yesterday?" Which is when I realized that I needed to get back on the writing wagon. However, the only problem was that my old journal was a plain, stereotypical composition notebook, and even though it had a pink Eiffel Tower on the front, and I wrote in every color imaginable, it was B-O-R-I-N-G.
The next day, I had the honor of looking at Carmen's journal ,which is amazing, beautiful, and well kept up. She had little pieces of scrap paper with journal entries stapled into her pristine journal. That made me think, "If I did that I could write in my journal throughout my day, back them up on super cool paper so that they would be beautiful and exiting, and put other stuff in it, like pictures, and not just entries... what if I made a scrapbook!!!! So that's just what I did.
It just so happens, that I had recently received a perfect scrapbook-to-be from my Aunt Carmen for my birthday, and is the perrrfect thing for my purposes. Currently my journal 2.0 is everything that I had hoped for, and more, and I write in 4 or 5 times a week instead of once every three months. I learned from this that what you want is the way you should get to have it. Don't let anyone tell you differently. If you love it, it will be successful.
By the way, IMJ is the best thing ever. If you are writing a journal for any reason, I highly recommend living by it. It stands for It's My Journal, and it means that my journal is for me and so I can do what I want with it and write what I want in it. I use the acronym to remind myself that there are no journal police, and no laws that say how my journal must look or what it must say. IMJ is the basis for my Journal 2.0, so feel free to you know, be inspired or something, just use my secrets for good, wasabi.
The next day, I had the honor of looking at Carmen's journal ,which is amazing, beautiful, and well kept up. She had little pieces of scrap paper with journal entries stapled into her pristine journal. That made me think, "If I did that I could write in my journal throughout my day, back them up on super cool paper so that they would be beautiful and exiting, and put other stuff in it, like pictures, and not just entries... what if I made a scrapbook!!!! So that's just what I did.
It just so happens, that I had recently received a perfect scrapbook-to-be from my Aunt Carmen for my birthday, and is the perrrfect thing for my purposes. Currently my journal 2.0 is everything that I had hoped for, and more, and I write in 4 or 5 times a week instead of once every three months. I learned from this that what you want is the way you should get to have it. Don't let anyone tell you differently. If you love it, it will be successful.
By the way, IMJ is the best thing ever. If you are writing a journal for any reason, I highly recommend living by it. It stands for It's My Journal, and it means that my journal is for me and so I can do what I want with it and write what I want in it. I use the acronym to remind myself that there are no journal police, and no laws that say how my journal must look or what it must say. IMJ is the basis for my Journal 2.0, so feel free to you know, be inspired or something, just use my secrets for good, wasabi.
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Btw, their supposed to be blurry. Secrets are secrets, and all of them cannot be shared. :-)
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