July has some very important dates for us notebookers! July 1st marks halfway through 2020. July 18th is the 200th day of the year. If you've been notebooking daily, it's your 200th day of notebooking.
For many of us, we've missed a few days and some of us have paused our notebooking habit, so here's a challenge to bring us all back! I've created a BINGO board with ideas for notebooking. Download the board, tape into your notebook, and notebook! Get BINGO vertically or horizontally or complete the entire board. YOU decide!!!! Share your pages and your entries in our Facebook group! We'd love to see what you're creating! Can't wait to begin this new challenge...Happy Notebooking!!!
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It's hard to believe that we are approaching the middle of our journey together. The middle is a good place to stop and reflect. How is it going? What's surprised you? Where do you want to improve? What are you learning?
Congratulations for showing up! Today we are officially one-third of the way through the #100daysofnotebooking. It feels good. I'm noticing that I'm focusing on my time in my notebook, which means I'm not blogging or on social media as much. Noticing is good...judging is not. I'm still working on this.
Congratulations! Today marks the twenty-sixth day of this challenge. It's important to mark all of your successes on this long journey. I'm grateful for every single day of this journey. Some days are easier to show up to the page than others. This week, I didn't blog at all. My focus stayed on my pages and my book. Have I told you that? That I'm writing a book...it's about notebooking. Through my journey of writing this book, I've discovered that the most important thing about writing is to show up to the page. The second most important thing is to have a supportive community of writers to encourage you to continue on the days you want to give up. Whether you're notebooking or composing on a laptop, show up- even when you don't feel like it. To me, that's what makes a writer. Here are some ideas for notebooking: * Make a list. Lists are a great way to create an entry for a notebook page. Here’s a favorite of mine...A List of Things that Annoy Me. Have fun with it! * Write a recipe for perfection. What ingredients will you need? How will you cook it? Be creative. * This page is just for you. Give yourself permission today to write just for you. Don’t worry about how your page looks or who will see it. Just write. How does it feel to write when you know it’s only for your eyes? * Set a timer and just write. No planning. No judgment. Just let everything fall onto the page. Keep your hand moving. Don't stop. Start with seven minutes. Work your way up to ten minutes or more. Pay attention to how this kind of notebooking is different than other pages. What purpose does this serve? * We are one-quarter of the way through our #100days already. Reflect. How do you feel? Go back and look through your pages. Have you changed as a notebooker? Has it gotten easier? Harder? Has your attitude about it changed? What’s your plan for the rest of the challenge? * I love quotes. I’ll share a quote each week to trigger some writing. Read this. Copy it into your notebook. Write about it! “When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea * Be creative with your pages. Turn your notebook upside down. Scrawl across a blank page. Write with your opposite hand. Use it. Get messy. See what happens. * Find a favorite book or a book you’re reading now. Use this book in your notebooking. Use the colors of the cover in your pages. Write to the character. Write as the character. Change the ending. * Here’s an excerpt from a poem. Print it or copy it into the pages of your notebook. Allow these words to inspire your own words. I held a Jewel in my fingers By Emily Dickinson I held a Jewel in my fingers And went to sleep The day was warm, and winds were prosy I said, "Twill keep" I woke - and chide my honest fingers, The Gem was gone And now, an Amethyst remembrance Is all I own Happy Notebooking!
#100DaysofNotebooking Are you looking for fresh ideas for notebook pages? Follow the hashtag #100DaysofNotebooking on Twitter and get ideas from other notebookers! That's what I'm doing. Here are some ideas for this week... YOU'RE STILL HERE...Celebrate that!!! Happy Notebooking! * Make a list. Lists are a great way to create an entry for a notebook page. Make a “DONE” list instead of a “To Do” list. List everything you’ve accomplished. It feels good. Have fun! * Write a letter. Be reflective. Write a letter to last year...Dear 2019, * Dream! Make a bucket list of places you’d like to go, things you’d like to achieve...the sky is the limit. * I love quotes. I’ll share a quote each week to trigger some writing. Read this. Copy it into your notebook. Write about it! “Because the world needs your spark. The world needs your energy. The world needs you to show up for your life and take hold of your potential! We need your ideas. We need your love and care. We need your passion. We need your business models. We need to celebrate your successes. We need to watch you rise back up after your failures. We need to see your courage. We need to hear your what if. We need you to stop apologizing for being who you are and become who you were meant to be.” ― Rachel Hollis * Use stickers or markers or watercolors in your notebook. Create a collage. Find something outside of your comfort zone today. Be creative. Get messy. See what happens. * Listen to your favorite podcast or find a new one. Grab your pen and use your notebook pages to process what you’re hearing. Jot down quotes. Add your reflections and reaction. * Here’s an excerpt from a poem. (It's called "Origin Story". Here's a video of the performance by the poets!) Print it or copy it into the pages of your notebook. Allow these words to inspire your own words. Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye write beautifully about friendship. Try it yourself... And they could tell you what a miracle this is.
They could tell you how rare this is. But they could tell you how rare friendship always is. The chances are slim. The cards are always stacked against you, the odds are always low. But I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every single one of your sunshines and save some for later. I will tuck them into my pockets so I can give them back to you when the rains fall hard. We are nineteen days into our challenge. This past week was hard. It was challenging finding time to notebook every day and to share and to comment on the posts of other notebookers. Did you struggle this week?
It's ok! This is the point when we are all figuring out how to truly incorporate this practice into our daily lives. There are days when it works and days when it doesn't. Don't give up! Take the time to notice when it doesn't work out. Ask yourself why it didn't happen. See if there's a small change you can make to adapt. Leave the judgment behind! No apologies are needed if you've missed a day or multiple days. Just celebrate the fact that you are back. One hundred days is a lot. Take it moment by moment. Lean on the community we've created here and don't give up! Day fifteen has been a good day of notebooking for me. I spent lots of time inside the pages and I feel it. I always FEEL better when I notebook consistently.
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