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Self-Improvement Journal

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Category: Workbooks & Guided Journals

A guided journal for vows, goals and aspirations

This journal invites us to regularly check in on ourselves – what we want, where we want to change, where we need to go – in order to maximise our chances of leading a fulfilled and contented life.
 
The journal helps us to carve out time to focus on someone it is too easy to neglect: ourselves. With the help of some well-focused and proven questions, the journal prompts us to clarify our goals, assess our options and plot a route to a flourishing future.
 
This is a tool for a newfound feeling of lightness, creativity and purpose.

How to use this guided journal

This journal is an invitation to a more conscious life, to spending a few moments on a regular basis (ideally every day) getting to know ourselves better.
 
What the journal asks us to do looks easy but is far from it. We are – all of us – inveterate escapees from our own feelings. So it requires true dedication and courage not to wriggle away from an encounter with painful or complicated bits of ourselves and to love ourselves enough to spend time regularly with our confusions, as we would with those of a friend.
 
The five questions that we suggest we might all cycle through during a session of examination have been carefully picked to direct our minds to areas which we tend to neglect and from where trouble can most intensely arise when we do so.

  1. What do I need to tell myself?
  2. What interests or excites me?
  3. What is making me envious?
  4. In five years, I would be pleased if…
  5. I need more… / I need less…

Hardback book | 192 pages | 216mm x 135mm

Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Riley Y. ★★★★★

I've tried goal journals before and always abandoned them by week two, but the vow pages in this one actually made me sit with why I kept quitting. Writing down what I want to change, not just what I want to do, hit differently. Three months in and I'm still filling it out.

Violet W. ★★★★★

The monthly check-in pages are what sold me — I actually sit down on the first of each month now instead of just thinking about goals. Writing my aspirations down in the vows section made them feel less vague. Three months in and I've stuck with it longer than any app I've tried.

Robert ★★★★★

I didn't expect the vows section to hit me as hard as it did, but writing down what I actually want to change made the goal-setting feel less abstract. The prompts push you to be honest without being preachy, and I've already filled three weeks of check-ins.