Intentional Living
“This is the perfect companion to help you nurture and blend your creative and planning skills—and live a truly inspired, intentional life! I love that I can combine my creativity with my need to be organized right in one beautiful notebook!”
— Julie Heckscher, MBA, KonMari Certified Consultant
Is your current planner just not cutting it?
Is it too rigid? Boring? Uninspiring? Does it fail to connect with who you are and who you want to be? Then this is the planner for you! It helps you with organization and goal setting, and does it in an inspiring and fun way.
Don’t you owe it to yourself to try something new & to find joy and meaning in your life?
Imagine the life you can have one year from today if you start living deliberately!
Leading your life based on your well-thought-out intentions is one of the surest ways to have a life of joy and meaning. It’s about the conscious and unconscious choices we make every day that have gotten us to where we are. And making those choices deliberate is the key to an intentional life.
Set the direction for your year … and your life
Kitchen Before
Kitchen after
Do you feel overwhelmed? As if you’re about to lose control of your life?
Don’t let your life unfold in a haphazard way; take control of it simply, day by day.
This easy-to-use planner will help you keep your space and your life tidy — and make them serve you.
“What if every decision you made, every goal you set, and every aspect of your life was guided by what sparks joy?”
— Marie Kondo
Create your vision for YOUR life
It’s one thing to establish your vision and set goals; it’s quite another thing to live in a deliberate manner. You need to get very clear on just what you want your world to look and feel like, how will it smell and taste and who will you surround yourself with. Once you’ve defined what you want your life to look like – and specifically identified your priorities – then you’re ready to make plans and take actions every day to achieve that ideal lifestyle.
Move closer to the life you want by changing your habits
When you establish a habit that makes your day 1% better than it was before – you’re moving closer to the lifestyle you want! So much of our life happens on autopilot – the unconscious habits we’ve been following that have gotten us in the same rut week after week, year after year. Intentional living flips the dynamic so you are establishing good habits that reinforce the life you want to live every time you follow them. Those little routines are what will carry you through the hard days when you don’t even have the energy to think.
Celebrate your progress, big and small!
You’ll set specific goals each month to realize the priorities in every facet of your life: personal, home, family, work, and with the other things you do to relax and enjoy yourself. And most important, celebrate when you achieve an action step – no matter how small or big!
The whole point of intentional living is to experience joy and meaning in your life
You can know boundless joy by organizing your life to meet your goals and priorities. Organizing your home is one step — organizing your life is the big one. Joy comes from a deeply personal place in your soul and your body reacts positively to the sensation. Your light beams from the inside out.
When priorities are aligned, you will find you have more time on your hands
What you do with that time is what gives purpose to your life. When you’re disorganized, overwhelmed, and stressed, it’s hard to find time for one more thing. When you declutter and organize your physical surroundings, the resulting tidyness will lift a great burden from your shoulders.
You’ll have more time to deepen your connections to others
Once your house is in order, the background chatter in your ears as well as your field of vision will calm itself and open up the space to think clearly about your needs, your family’s needs, and the needs of others. Open yourself up to deeper relationships and service to others. I believe through those connections, you’ll find the meaning in your life.
It all began with an idea and now it is reality. Below are images of actual pages from the book, beginning with the strategic planning section. The remainder is the whole of the month of February to give you an idea of what to expect for each month.
* Note about the images: these photos and drawings are from my KonMari® practice and from my personal journals over the years.