A few weeks ago I graduated from college. Crazy, right? Well, to me it is, but what's even crazier is that I'm not looking for a full-time job to tie me down for the rest of my life (not yet, at least). Instead, I'm going to take six months to a year off--depending on money and how I feel and life--and travel.
I am honestly so excited for this next chapter of my life and I can't wait to see and experience more than I've ever been able to. And to make my time off even more beneficial for me, I went ahead and bought myself the Happiness Planner and the 52-Week Journal.
What intrigued me about the Happiness Planner brand is how positive it is. As bad as it sounds, I struggle with positivity. I stress over nothing and I have a tendency to try live life fairly rationally in fear of messing up somehow. The Happiness Planner is essentially a way to combat that! It provokes you to fill out what makes you happy, sad, etcetera and to truly think about if those things are changeable. Both the planner and the journal have an abundance of quotes, as well--I live for quotes.
The planner is meant to help you look back at the day and conclude whether it was a good one or not. It is set up like a common weekly planner, in a sense, so that you can plan out your week as positively as possible and then it has space to reflect on how you're feeling every day of that week as well as overall.
The 52-Week Journal is slightly more detailed. Its focus is more long-term than weekly. It pushes you to be slightly more introspective and to figure out what will help you live life more happily. It has spaces to fill in the week's highs and spaces to fill in the lows. It also has areas to rank how happy, bored, healthy, tired (you get the idea) you felt that week.
I am so excited and ready to begin filling these two books in now that I actually have the time for me. In the wise words of Eric Roth, "It's never too late, or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again."
Here's to what's to come.
xxx
