Start With A Word Guided Journal A Journal For Finding Your Voice

Find your inner creative with one simple suggestion--start with a word. From New York Times best-selling author Peter H. Reynolds (The Dot, The Word Collector, I am Yoga), Start with a Word takes you on a creative journey to find the words that best express what is in your head, heart, and dreams. Whether you're a budding wordsmith or a writerly type, these pages prompt you to gather words, put them together in unexpected ways, and to witness how new ideas, poems, characters, and stories are born. A wonderful expression of the author's powerful message and mindfulness practices, Start with a Word will spark creative breakthroughs for adults and kids alike. Special Features Paperback with rounded corners and a lay-flat binding Ribbon marker Full-color illustrations and creative writing prompts throughout Check out the other book in this series: Start with a Dot.

"If you are looking for words to express what you are thinking, feeling, and dreaming, this journal is for you. Whether you're a budding wordsmith or a writer-ish type, these pages gently prompt you to collect words, put them together in unexpected ways, and see where they take you. May they spark new ideas, poems, and stories to fuel your passion for words!"--Back cover

If you can make a dot, then you're ready to be taken on a creative journey. Inspired by his internationally beloved picture book The Dot, Peter H. Reynolds begins this guided journal by giving you permission to draw just one dot and sign your name. Over the next several pages, you're encouraged to take pleasure in making iterations of the dot: big dots, little dots, colorful dots, orderly dots, and scattered dots. Then you'll move on to other mark-making activities, conquering perfectionism, loosening up, and letting your creativity flow. Throughout, Reynolds offers exercises that draw a connection between mindfulness and leaving your mark on the page. Whether you're a timid beginner or a seasoned artist who needs a creative jolt to keep fresh and recharge, this journal is for you.

What's your journey of becoming? Based on Michelle Obama's bestselling memoir, this gorgeous journal features an intimate and inspiring introduction by the former First Lady and thought-provoking questions and prompts to help you discover-and rediscover-your story. 'It's not about being perfect. It's not about where you get yourself in the end. There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there's grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.' - Michelle Obama In publishing Becoming, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama shared her own extraordinary journey to help create space for others to tell their stories, to give people the courage to discover the power of their own voice, and to widen the pathway for who belongs and why. This guided journal presents inspiring questions and quotes from the book to help you reflect on your personal and family history, your goals, challenges, and dreams, what moves you and brings you hope, and what future you imagine for yourself and your community. Above all, these pages help you capture your own voice and journey so you can nurture your sense of belonging.

Studies confirm what avid journalers have always known: writing helps you move forward in your life, heal, and realize your dreams. This inspiring book balances basic instructions in the art of journaling with intimate entries from the author and workshop participants. Exercises and prompts will gently encourage you to open your journal, and with pen or pencil in hand, begin to transform your life today!

The Art Of Journaling and Finding Your Voice is why you learned to write in the first place, because the true skill behind the concept of writing wasn't meant to merely copy and recopy what's already been said or written. It was meant to help you find and express your own creative voice. Before you scramble to justify not prioritizing any time to write, consider this: The average sentence only contains between 15-20 words, taking seven minutes to write 100 words. At the end of one year, assuming you only wrote 7 minutes a day, you would have written 36,500 words. That's more than half of a typical mystery novel. Conclusion: If you can't prioritize only 7 minutes out of 1,440 minutes each day for yourself, perhaps it's time to seriously rethink your life and what you're missing. Solution: Start writing today, right now, and start spending your new life wisely, as if it were money being added to a new savings account. Prioritize your new life by getting up 7 minutes earlier to write, spend 7 minutes of your lunch hour writing, spend 7 minutes before you go to bed writing. Every successful person will acknowledge, setting written goals is essential. To set a goal you have to know what you want and clarify it in words. Journaling is the first step in helping you think out loud on paper. That only starts when you pick up your pen or pencil and begin writing on a consistent daily basis. Most importantly, this is about you, your thoughts, your feelings, your hopes and dreams, and recording the daily value you add to your personal adventures and experiences. The Art Of Journaling is about Finding Your Voice and creating new opportunity.

What would we do if we knew we could not fail? In our busy and often overbooked lives, it is sometimes dif? cult to discern what our true dreams and passions are. The Permission to Dream Journal is designed to help readers discover their dreams and to aid them in achieving them. As the founder of Femail Creations and the booming home-party business, Barefoot Parties, Lisa Hammond brings her own success and wisdom to readers with The Permission to Dream Journal, along with quotes from other great role models like Oprah Winfrey, Dolly Parton, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others. In this one-of-a-kind journal, sections include Remember Your Dreams, Building Your Dreams, and Living Your Dreams. Each section begins with a wish list and various prompts like “What is your craziest dream? What would it take to accomplish it? Make a to-do list. Put your passions at the top of the list,” followed by blank pages for Dream Doodles and Creative Collaging. The Permission to Dream Journal sets out to motivate readers not only to dream, but to make their dreams happen on their own terms.