Welcome to Day 16 of the Happy Journal Challenge! Today we’re going to watch a movie that makes us laugh out loud. Earlier this month,…
Welcome to Day 15 of the Happy Journal Challenge! Today we are going to talk about an idea I call not so random acts of…
When was the last time you had the opportunity to try something new? I’m not talking about traffic-stopping new. It doesn’t have to be a…
Welcome to Day 13 in our Happy Journal Challenge. Today we are going to look up and outside of ourselves for signs of joy and…
Hi everyone! Welcome to Day 12 of the Happy Journal Challenge. Our prompt for today is to give your sweetheart a hug. You can also…
Show appreciation today: tell someone why you appreciate them. Welcome to day eleven of the happy journal challenge! Today’s prompt to show appreciation was inspired…
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,…
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…
Since publishing the Kindle version of Happy Journal, Happy Life at the beginning of the month, there have been a few questions as to why I didn’t add more pictorial examples.
There was a reason, actually several, that kept me from adding pages of pictures throughout the book. Believe me, I was tempted. But here is why I ultimately decided to go light on the pictures . . .