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,…
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…
Have you ever set an intention for your day? How about setting an intention as you transition from task to task? This practice is a…
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 . . .
What a delicious week of happiness!
Thank you for all of your support of my new eBook, Happy Journal, Happy Life. I have BIG dreams for this little book because I think it is a method of gratitude that is accessible to so many.
You don’t have to be an ARTIST.
You don’t have to have a lot of supplies.
This is the little book that almost didn’t happen. I was writing another book and ran into a major roadblock. And while I was digging myself out, Happy Journal, Happy Life emerged.
It also almost didn’t happen because the concept of drawing my life is one I’m too familiar with. I have been sketching vignettes of my day and the things that make me happy for years.
I think keeping a regular journal is wonderful. I will likely write in one until I’m an old woman. Might as well—I’ve been journaling since I was six years old.
But this drawing-my-day practice? It didn’t even have a name until recently.
I think it’s safe to say that you and I know about the benefits of keeping a journal—any journal. Benefits like better mental clarity, boosts…