tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327324842024-03-21T10:24:49.696-04:00write your lifeTanja Vaillancourthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13025336844457765161noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32732484.post-75221657497080071222009-10-24T23:11:00.003-04:002009-10-24T23:18:20.183-04:00the art of making lists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMry3SFeDJ7vBIMzojZailEbWMQ6cZ3JJePa48vNZNfSM38pvnqbEYeLvvVwI8kIsZVneIZ9O3pWd-Kx6SFDl7KknXlaRCz8UGLxr4lEarWGEpw5LlOzlsMALJlRLM_yUt3vMF/s1600-h/3095734445_54a1e72bdc_t.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMry3SFeDJ7vBIMzojZailEbWMQ6cZ3JJePa48vNZNfSM38pvnqbEYeLvvVwI8kIsZVneIZ9O3pWd-Kx6SFDl7KknXlaRCz8UGLxr4lEarWGEpw5LlOzlsMALJlRLM_yUt3vMF/s320/3095734445_54a1e72bdc_t.jpg" /></a><br />
</div>Writing your life is taking your life seriously - that's what I heard on the radio this week.<br />
I love this quote.<br />
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Writing lists is an easy way to write your life.<br />
Here are some ideas :<br />
- list your perfumes<br />
- list the places you have visited<br />
- list the best moments of your life<br />
- list your favourite foods<br />
- list your friends<br />
- list the things you want to buy<br />
- list the men/women you have loved<br />
- list your qualities<br />
- list what you are grateful for<br />
- list what you dream about<br />
- list the streets where you have lived<br />
- list what you have to do next week<br />
- list the things you want to get rid of<br />
- list the things you love in your life<br />
- list the things you love in your house<br />
- list your favourite outfits<br />
- list the things you never want to do again<br />
- list what makes you cry<br />
- list the people you admire<br />
- list the reasons you love your husband/wife<br />
- and make a list of other lists you want to make!Tanja Vaillancourthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13025336844457765161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32732484.post-80288393013700286182009-10-06T09:48:00.001-04:002009-10-06T09:49:34.020-04:00just take a picture you liketake any picture you have at home, in your computer, from the net or in a magazine and get going.<br />
Write the story of this picture.<br />
Invent a story around it.<br />
What happened before and after? Why was this picture taken? Who took this picture? Where was it? Add your senses : touch, smell...<br />
Go grazy with the plot - write a story that you like!<br />
And if your story is boring - that is okay too!<br />
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</div><i>Extra idea </i>: Cut the picture, put in the center of your sheet, glue it and write around it.<br />
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<i>Another extra idea</i> : Change pen colour for every word you write so that you slow down your pace and for the way it looks!<br />
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Here a few to inspire you if you don't have any close by.<br />
Have fun!Tanja Vaillancourthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13025336844457765161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32732484.post-85298321520458999532009-09-11T13:05:00.008-04:002009-09-13T21:11:08.404-04:00it's a start! yeah!Write your life. <br />
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I have been wanting to write a blog on journaling forever - for the past 3 years I think. So proud I finally started!<br />
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How hard it is to sometimes start new things even things that we like.<br />
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This blog is about the joys of journaling. And the hundred of techniques I plan to teach!<br />
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Since I have had a baby I have not been journalling as much and I miss it. Journaling has always been a relaxing but at the same time exciting activity for me. But the reason why I love it the most is because it allows be to get things done. My written words given me the fuel to do them in real life.<br />
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My wildest dreams have always appeared on paper and have (for most of them) come true thanks to writing them over and over again. <br />
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I have been procrastinating about starting this blog...oh yes... but last night when I went to bed I decided I would start today! No more excuses.<br />
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I wanted my first post to be engaging and interesting...I wanted to write a draft...to find the best pictures, to take new pictures, to read my journaling books again...<br />
But finally I decided to just show up.<br />
Just to show up.<br />
I don't remember which author taught me this but it has been a valuable lesson.<br />
Just show up. <br />
What counts is the process and and not the result. <br />
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So homework #1 guys : <br />
Shopping is involved. Exciting shopping! <br />
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Buy paper, notebooks, pencils, pens, crayons, scotch tape, scissors, glue. More notebooks (preferably not lined) and more pens...<br />
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But if going out to buy all that material is a reason not to start journalling, just use any paper you have at home.<br />
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Homework #2<br />
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You have your paper and a favourite pen?<br />
Simply write down five things you are grateful for.<br />
And do that every day.<br />
It is the most simple and most uplifiting writing excercise you can do.<br />
It puts everything is perspective again. <br />
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I am grateful for :<br />
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1.My great art room/office and computer <br />
2.The great lunch I just had : egg sandwich and hot tea<br />
3. Time for me : Mateo is sleeping now.<br />
4. Walking outside for more than an hour this morning.<br />
5. I <i>think</i> I am slowly losing my belly<br />
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