Creativity and Ideas Unleashed: A Design Your Life Journal

Creativity and Ideas Unleashed

Thank you for purchasing the Creativity and Ideas Unleashed Journal. With today’s heavy workloads and busy lifestyles, it’s no wonder our minds are cluttered. Stress, anxiety, and depression are just a few of the many issues caused by this overload. One of the easiest and least harmful ways to reduce, or eliminate this clutter is through writing things down.

This journal will help you be more aware of what is going on with you. It will help you be present or “in the moment”. It can help you understand where you’ve been and where you are going. It will help you clarify your creative thoughts. It allows you to look back as you progress into more consciousness. It will help you recognize things about yourself that you may not have known previously and even feel some elusive feeling called joy.

Journaling can help you set goals, find creative solutions to problems and develop a stronger sense of where you want to go and how you’re going to get there. Journaling can be done in a variety of ways, from casual writing to structured styles with categories, checklists and more. To get you started, let’s focus on the freestyle. This style allows you to write as much or as little as you want. If you’re pressed for time, not feeling well or just don’t have a lot of thoughts one day, just jot down a few sentences. If one day, you feel like writing more, go for it.  Be sure to include a date and title with each entry. You can bullet journal, sketch, doodle or just do a brain dump and let it all out.

Remember, the journal is for you. It can help you gain more perspective on yourself, your thoughts, feelings and your practice. It’s not meant to be perfect so don’t worry about being meticulous.

The following pages contain a loose structure to get you started and in addition, it contains some quotes to keep you motivated. Keep in mind, it doesn’t matter how you journal, the power comes from practicing journaling whenever you want or need it.