I absolutely love all things notebooks and paper, as regular readers of this blog already knows. And that love also includes planners and calendars, or what ever you want to call them. And the idea of planning your day out, setting long term goals, picking a focus, working towards the bigger picture… But how do […]
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Planning for the future! About calendar, setting goals and thinking ahead.
Setting Goals | December Inspiration en masse
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. Rilke Hey, how was the weekend? Good I hope. Now, the most important thing to do in December is not celebrating Christmas but to set goals for the New Year! Especially these few days between Christmas and New Years Eve, setting […]
Giveaway | Planning to learn in Online Workshop
I am one of the art journaling teachers at the 21 Secrets Workshop Fall 2015 as you all know, and I’ve been given two workshops to give away. You can enter the giveaway below and you get points for helping me spread the word. The second pass I’m giving away to one of my dear […]
Do Great Work
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet, keep looking, and dont settle. As […]
Welcome 2014 | Time for Creativity
You do not know what will come out on the page, until you sit down and put your tools to work… iHanna Is your pencils sharpened? Your notebooks ready and your journal open for business? You do not need to use willpower to be creative. All you need is to listen to your heart, and […]
How to Plan for a 365 Project of your own
Having a year-long project is one of the best ways to create a creative practice! If you feel like you want to be more creative but don’t find the right time to start, or don’t find enough time, I recommend you try this! Because when you decide to do something you are more likely to […]
Set a Quantitative Goal
Set smart goals I learned from Lisa Sonora Beam’s great book The Creative Entrepreneur that all goals should be SMART. Smart stands for: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound! It does sound smart, doesn’t it? But to be honest with you I often hesitate to set goals like that, goals that has a set number […]
How to make your own Planner
After the introduction to the why of my DIY planner I thought I’d continue today with the how to, a tutorial to inspire you and some facts on how I finally created my own Planner for 2011, in a format that I can continue to use for many years to come! I created the layout […]
A Personalized DIY Planner
Can you believe I did not have a planner during last year – at all? Crazy I know! I did draw a grid of some months in my diary instead, adding tabs to find them between all the writing. This system has worked for short term planning but not for goal-setting or getting a proper […]
A few Creative Ideas
I’ve outlined a few ideas for creative actions in 2011. I think they are more wishes than goals this year. My only real goal is to procrastinate less and move forward. Maybe that is enough. My intention is to keep creating and enjoy the process, as always. I’m going with the thought “do more of […]
Celebrating 2010 | My Creative Achievements List
Click play to see my Everyday magic photos above. According to Gretchen Rubin, Lytton Strachey observed, “Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.” I love summing up my life and writing long lists of this and that. Today I choose to look back a bit on 2010, […]
Designing a Perfect Life
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes I guess one of the reasons I usually fall in love with this short time between the new and the old year is because it is full of promise. Now, when the old year is going […]