Why Keep a Journal?
Author: Wes | Filed under: FREE Stationery, Training Monday Jul 14,2008Why keep a journal or a diary? Here are just a few of the many advantages and benefits.
Whether you write a few lines or a couple of pages, only through journaling do you record and track both the events and the emotions you felt during your life. Let’s face it, you can only remember so much and you forget so much more. With your journal or diary, you can actually see what you were thinking at that moment in time because your thoughts and experiences are right there to jog your memory. When you commit to writing down the events and your emotional feelings, you have put your thoughts, emotions and experiences into a solid reference form… something that will tell your generations to come who you really were and how you felt.
Below are some more examples of the benefits of keeping a journal.
Journaling reduces stress – Journaling is a proven outlet for the thing in life that cause us stress. The true benefit of getting it all out of us and onto our stationery is that of reducing the stress. Once you’ve tried journaling life’s stressful events, you don’t carry as much with you on your shoulders or within you. It is on the paper stationery or in the digital computer stationeries. By journaling, you give yourself a very powerful form of self-expression, and you’ll find that it’s through that expression you find clarity, release, and your calm.
Journaling to set goals and problem resolutions – As humans, it is only as we put our words on stationery paper in physical form that we begin to finally see and to better understand what it is that we truly want. Then, and only then, do we see what is most important to us, and how we really feel about things in our lives. Journaling is one method to help us do that. Once you can get your thoughts, ideas and plans down on paper, it’s easy to create your goals and find the resolutions to your problems at hand. Then, it’s simple to support what you are thinking by writing about what you need to do.
Journaling to organize our messy lives – We talked above about journaling your goals and putting in writing what you want to accomplish for the day, the month, the year, or within your lifetime. This is also an excellent tool to help you get all those things done. Simply create a personal checklist on a clean page of “things to do.” Be sure and place deadlines next to them… it helps us accomplish more with less wasted time.
Journaling helps keep our focus – You’ll find that the act of writing in a journal creates more personal awareness of both our feelings and everything we have going on around us. This increased awareness is what keeps your focus on the issues and tasks that are most important to you.
Journaling as a time for just you – Spending time that you set aside for yourself to journal is quality ME TIME! Everyone needs a little time to themselves, especially busy moms and dads. Taking just a few minutes a day to add to your journal can make you feel better by gaining the benefit you feel from doing something specifically for yourself.
The simple journaling process:
You can start your journal on any day of the year, it doesn’t have to be the beginning of the week either. Journaling is something you can start today – the sooner you start, the fewer the memories and emotions you have to lose. You can always stop tomorrow and pick up again next week or next year. You can start and stop as often as you want. You can skip a day at any time… It is your journal. But, it takes 21 to 30 days to make a habit, so you may want to block off just 10 minutes each day, maybe just before bed, for the next month and commit to recording your daily thoughts and feelings.
Journal entries should record the day, date and year, tracking your life. When keeping your personal journal, you’ll want to record as many of your experiences, dreams, ideas, desires, thoughts and more each day as you can find the words for. You’ll find it’s a great tool for reflecting on now, as well as in the future. You are telling your life’s story to yourself. Don’t miss any of the good stuff 
You’ll soon find that your journal has become one of your most treasured keepsakes. Just add a few photos and you know have a written life’s story scrapbook. After all, your journal is a catalog of your memories and feelings. Over not too much time, your memories become an irreplaceable treasure trove that can be passed on years from now, if you wish, to your children or others you want to know who you truly are.
Don’t forget that Journals are also great gifts for friends, and especially for close family. So, if you’ve never journaled before, consider starting. If you have journaled, but gave it up, look back on what you used to accomplish and consider starting a journal again. Even if your handwriting is no longer legible, digital stationery journals are the next best thing… and the digital stationery pages can be printed on your printer in as many copies as you need.
About the author:
Wes Waddell is a father of two, grandfather of 5 and owns www.Free-Stationery.com and it’s parent site www.1-Computer-Stationery.com. Hundreds of FREE Stationery templates in multiple formats along with FREE Training on how to create your own custom digital stationeries usine FREE Software.
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Lion Loose Near Our Home!
Author: Wes | Filed under: FREE Stationery, Site Information Sunday Jul 13,2008Hi Stationery and Scrapbook Friend,
We had quite the scare yesterday and most of today around here. Someone reported seeing a real lion just a few minutes from our house and got a blurry photo of it.
We had the police, the zoo and animal control along with lots of guns and helicopters swarming the area until late this afternoon when the finally called off the search.
As it turns out, we have a wild animal preserve just a few miles east of our house that we didn’t even know was there… it’s pretty spread out here east of Colorado Springs.
The good news is that after analyzing the image and enhancing it as much as they could, it turned out to most likely be a large dog. The wild life preserve counted all their cats 4 times just to be sure, but none of them were missing.
So, the only big cats we had turned out to be the ones we have in our digital scrapbook Animals category on PrincessCrafts.com.
Now we can go back to walking in the afternoons again…
Before you go and since I don’t want to send out another message when I can combine them all…
Kathy just finished uploading the new “Down By The Sea” hi-res digital scrapbook kits on www.ScrapbookKitsnBits.com for you. Just go to the Catalog and look at the newly added kits near the bottom of the page.
For our Gold and Platinum Members; Kathy also just added Journaling sets 41 through 43 in the Heritage Category, Retirement sets 4 through 6 in the Special Occasions Category, Sports 21 through 23 and Summer 52 through 54 to both the 12×12 and the 8.5×11 Members Areas.
Members can find the new sets on their recently added page inside their members areas. If you’re not a member, but still would like to take a look, check out the thumbnails at: www.PrincessCrafts.com
One last note to all our members…
There’s 6 new Travel Stationeries (476 through 481) at no cost waiting for you at: www.Free-Stationery.com. They make fantastic digital scrapbook page background too!
That’s all we got for you this week,
Kathy and Wes
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Kids Entertainment Ideas For Summer
Author: kwaddell | Filed under: Training, Uncategorized Friday Jul 11,2008I loved this idea so much! I just had to spread the word.
Kids Build Their Own Websites!!!
I know that every summer it’s trouble keeping your kids entertained. Yea, they’re happy as can be for the first couple of weeks… then the complaining starts and soon, you’re at your wits end.
Well, here’s an idea that can keep them occupied for hours a day, all summer long.
Get the full details right where I found them on the BLOG:
Details on getting your kids their own website.
More tips as I find them…
Kathy and Wes
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Wedding Stationery Downloads (New)
Author: kwaddell | Filed under: FREE Stationery Thursday Jun 12,2008Hi Digital Scrapbook and Stationery Friend,
Subject: FREE Digital Scrapbook Backgrounds and Stationeries newsletter
Quick Note: If you have ever thought about earning a little extra income on the side with your scrapbooking… be sure and read all the way to the end for a chance to get the inside scoop on how you can do that with almost no effort.
Back to the main subject.
This week Kathy just added 14 new no cost digital stationery downloads:
Wedding 948 thru 950 (3)
New Country stationeries
Country 354 thru 361 (8)
Floral 640 thru 642 (3)
For our Gold and Platinum members, she also added the middle of the month New digital scrapbook template Sets in both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 formats:
Little Boys 30 thru 35
Little Girls 23 thru 28
Just head on over to http://www.free-stationery.com/ and download yours right now.
As always, nothing to signup for and no strings attached. Just go and download all the FREE Stationeries you want. There’s even a recently added page so you know what the latest new stationery (or digital scrapbook backgrounds) are.
Be sure and let us know here what you think… your comments help the site and also let us know what you like most so we can give you more of it.
In case you missed them, the May end of month digital scrapbook template sets were:
3 New baby sets
3 New children sets
3 New father’s day sets
3 New shabby chic (or antique) sets
Check out the new sets in your Members Area at: www.MyPrincessCrafts.com after logging in.
It’s been quite a busy last couple of weeks here at PrincessCrafts.
We know that many of our readers and clients are also interested in earning a little extra cash on the side with their digital scrapbooks, cards and stationeries. We also know that many of you already have your own websites and home bizinesses.
So, just a couple of times a year, we like to remind our members that PrincessCrafts is here to help you start and grow not only your hobby, but your own Home Biz (if you are looking for one) as well.
Our update for the middle of the year is that we are in the process of opening a brand new digital scrapbook wholesale program. If you are looking for a little extra income, then check us out at:
Digital Scrapbook Wholesale Team
It just may be exactly what you are looking for.
Happy Journaling,
Kathy
www.FREE-Stationery.info
www.MyPrincessCrafts.com
www.EZScrapbookGuide.com
P.S. Wes also just published a great article on Preserving Your Holiday Memories. Give it a look see on the Computer Scrapbooking 101 BLOG at: http://blog.princesscrafts.com
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FREE Country Stationery Downloads
Author: kwaddell | Filed under: FREE Stationery Thursday May 29,2008Hi Free Stationery Friend,This week has lots of new free downloadable stationeries for you.
Kathy has added:
FREE Floral Stationery 640 thru 642
Plus, 5 new Free Country Stationeries:
Country 354 thru 358
You can check them out and download them at:
Click HERE for FREE Floral Stationery
Click HERE for FREE Country Stationeries
Kathy and Wes
PrincessCrafts
5505 Whipshaw Road
Peyton, CO 80831
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Floral Stationery Downloads - Udated!
Author: Wes | Filed under: FREE Stationery Thursday May 22,2008Hi Stationery and Scrapbook Friend,
Kathy has added 3 more new Floral Stationery to the FREE-Stationery.com website. You’ll find Floral 637 through 639 added to the other 7 new stationery she added last week.
Here’s the link right to the Floral page:
BONUS!
Kathy also just added a brand new FREE mini-scrapbook page or 4×6 Photo Greeting Card template on the main page of PrincessCrafts.com. All you have to do is go there and download it… as always, no signups or extra’s to complete. It’s there waiting for you at:
Happy Scrappin’
Wes and Kathy
www.MyPrincessCrafts.com
www.EZScrapbookGuide.com
www.TheGreetingCardBiz.com
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