Tag: Spiritual

2014 Life Workbook

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2014 Create Your Amazing Year (Life Ed)

I had grand plans of getting my Amazing Year workbook all started and ready to post about at the beginning of the year but a little person growing inside me had other ideas and my body decided to give me horrid morning sickness for most of December and January.

Now that I’m in the second trimester I’m starting to feel much, much better and made a Life Book date with myself.

Before we get started on my Lifebook journey, what is the Amazing Year workbook?

The 2014 Create Your Amazing Year workbook & calendar is an incredibly popular & useful tool to help you plan out & make happen your most incredible year in life or business (or both!). Over the last five years, thousands of women have used this workbook with the most amazing results. It’s the best planning tool available to help you make your year your most exceptional yet!

Used by entrepreneurs, artists, mamas, creatives, coaches, teachers and women of all ages, the Create Your Amazing Year in Life and Biz workbooks are filled with dozens of pages of powerful worksheets & a printable calendar to help you create your amazing new year.

I’d already done the closure for 2013.

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I love this part of the workbook as it allows me to look back on the previous year and brings closure

I invoked 2014 listing things i want to experience, feel and give to myself. I gave myself permission to do more

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I’ve started my list of things for 2014 but struggled at the start to get 100 things. A few are repeats rom last year or things I didn’t get done last year and some are from my 101 things list. I’ve broken my list done into topics to this year – blog (& social media), our house, our family, work, crafts, and me. The list will be posted in a day or two.

I loved having ritual days last year and have decided to make a few changes this year. I’ll continue with the Go to bed early Mondays (get to bed by 10pm), Foodie Friday (trying a new recipe) and Switch off Sundays (no laptop or social media time – this one was hard). In 2014 I’m adding Scrapbook Wednesday (making myself scrapbook at least one day a week) & Art Journal Saturdays (the new Art Journal Caravan prompts are released on a Saturday my time so I spend Saturday evenings working on them).

This year I even made goals for 2014. I’ve never been good at goal setting (or keeping) so I’ll be interested to see how I go. I even created a TO DO LIST BOOK in an old journal

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and finally I did my oracle reading for 2014. I used the Earth Magic Oracle cards online single card reading. I picked a card for each month. I really love this card deck and really want to grab the physical cards sometime soon.

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So that’s my 2014 Life workbook in a nutshell. I’ve printed it A5 again this year and added it to my Inner B journal so I’ll have it with me at all times.

Do you use the Life workbook? If not, I can highly recommend it

Creating Your Goddess Haven

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A six-week adventure for when you’re wanting & needing & craving a space that is a true haven for your the Goddess in You! You’ll use space clearing techniques to make your space’s energy sparkle. You’ll learn how to divinely declutter. You’ll dive into inspired interior design. You’ll be empowered with all of the wisdom, tools & techniques you need to make your space feel & look amazing to you. And you’ll end up with a home that is a sanctuary just for you.

That’s the description for Leonie Dawson’s 6 week e-course Create Your Goddess Haven. I’ve decided to give it a go (again) so this week is week 1. I’ll be blogging my results here each week. A bit for myself and as a bit of a motivator.

If you want to join in you can sign up here or join the amazaballs Amazing Life & Biz Academy and get access to this course, a HEAP of other goodies and a great group of wonderful Goddesses.

So I’ll see you back here in a week with a wrap-up of week one.

100 things in 2013 – Final tally

Well here we are at the end of 2013! What a year it has been
This year I blogged about my 2013 Goddess Workbook list of 100 things to do.
Things in bold are started, strike thru is finished. Red is didn’t do 🙁

  1. Work out a decent filing system
  2. Double my twitter followers (currently 519. As at 31 December – 626)
  3. Go to ProBlogger event (or get digital pass)
  4. Book ticket for DPCON 2014
  5. Blogger meet up in Tassie
  6. Blog everyday for 1 month
  7. Organise our office
  8. Set up a veggie garden
  9. Get a shed
  10. Set up a composting system
  11. Do Habithacker – Nest
  12. Find an inspirational quote & make it into a piece of artwork
  13. Get the laundry finished (just need to paint)
  14. Paint lounge & dining room
  15. Hang photos of Kara & family
  16. Get curtains for kitchen
  17. Start bathroom reno
  18. Get front yard done
  19. Have parents over for dinner more
  20. Spend a day at the beach
  21. Go on a picnic
  22. Have a regular ‘date night’
  23. Buy a Thermomix (it’s coming soon – yay!)
  24. Do a recipe book cull
  25. Create a custom recipe book
  26. Have more TV free time
  27. Get K into daycare 1 day a week
  28. Learn to make sour dough bread/rolls
  29. Make our own bread
  30. Have a candlelit dinner
  31. Do something for our wedding anniversary
  32. Write a letter to K to open on her 18th
  33. Start putting $$ into K’s bank account
  34. Open a Christmas Club account
  35. Get a new tattoo.
  36. Buy J a tattoo
  37. make/buy Christmas presents through the year
  38. Get our wills written
  39. Finish JYC from 2011 AND 2012!
  40. Swim more
  41. Exercise more
  42. Organise digital scrapbooking stuff
  43. Scrapbook with Mum at least once a month
  44. Scrap with others (does online count?)
  45. Organise a scrapbook event
  46. Do Frocktober again
  47. Read more books – gotta love iBooks
  48. Drink more water
  49. Have a massage (thanks to hubby)
  50. Have a facial
  51. Have a manicure
  52. Create a book of advice for K
  53. Finish our wedding album – redoing in Project Life format (much easier & quicker)
  54. Go see Amanda Palmer in concert
  55. Get my L’s – got the book just need to book my test and find my birth & wedding certificates
  56. Take a burlesque class
  57. Spend a rainy day in PJs watching TV
  58. Banish bad memores
  59. Create a playlist of meditations
  60. Create a playlist of my favourite songs (part 1 & part 2)
  61. Watch 20 movies in our new movies folder (current count 10/20)
  62. Rewatch all 6 Star Wars movies
  63. Rewatch all 3 Lord of the Rings movies
  64. Go to bed before midnight
  65. Do every Fat Mum Slim Photo-a-day in 2013 (you can see my photos here)
  66. Go out for High Tea
  67. Buy mum something special
  68. Organise our MP3 collection
  69. Write J random love notes
  70. Complete a cross stitch
  71. Do 1 art journal page a week
  72. Catch up with friends more often – thanks to FB I’ve been catching up with a close friends lots
  73. Go watch an A League game live
  74. Go to Melbourne
  75. Xbox more
  76. Finally organise our bedroom
  77. Learn to play the guitar
  78. Go visit the snow
  79. Go camping
  80. Improve my cake decorating – thanks to Cake Decorating mag
  81. Photograph a lightning storm
  82. Take more photos of the moon
  83. Create a mini Goddess altar
  84. Watch all the James Bond movies
  85. Write/finish a piece of fan fiction – writing a Doctor Who fan fic
  86. See more of Tassie
  87. Celebrate the seasons
  88. Finish our work website – just our portfolio to go
  89. Work on family tree
  90. Do Fox in Flat dares
  91. Go fishing
  92. Go watch the cricket live
  93. Take K to the footy at the MCG
  94. Go to the dawn service – was sick this year 🙁
  95. Go to the Botanical Gardens
  96. Buy K some guinea pigs
  97. Visit QVMAG
  98. Check out MONA
  99. Rejoin the Goddess Circle
  100. Enjoy life!!

So a few not done but hey, Bring on 2014!
I’ll be back later with my 2014 list 😀

Beat the price rise

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So I share about Leonie Dawson’s Amazing business & Life academy a bit and I thought I’d give you a quick heads up that if you want to join, now is the time. Prices will be going up from $199 to $497 on 1 October.

If you join now you’re locked in at the current price as long as you keep your membership going.  That’s right – if you’re already a member, you’ll be able to keep your membership price for the lifetime of your membership.

And Leonie is the best because as well as the one off payment she also offers a payment plan (it’s how I pay – spreads the cost over a couple of months)

By joining the academy you get access to all the awesome ecourses, meditations and both the business and life versions of the 2014 Create Your Amazing Year workbook, planner + calendar

Creating a glorious haven in your home

Disclaimer: All links are affiliate.

So most will know I am a HUGE fan of Leonie Dawson (aka Goddess Leonie) and her Amazing Biz and Life Academy. I found out about the site after hearing about the amazing Create Your Incredible Year Calendar & Workbook and finally joined at the end of 2011. I love it. Love I have access to an amazing group of wonderful women. Love I have access to amazing e-courses and it’s one of these e-courses I’m blogging about today –  Create your Goddess Haven.

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Leonie describes the Goddess Haven e-course as

A six-week adventure for when you’re wanting & needing & craving a space that is a true haven for your the Goddess in You! You’ll use space clearing techniques to make your space’s energy sparkle. You’ll learn how to divinely declutter. You’ll dive into inspired interior design. You’ll be empowered with all of the wisdom, tools & techniques you need to make your space feel & look amazing to you. And you’ll end up with a home that is a sanctuary just for you.

I started my adventure earlier this week and decided to blog about it as I go.

The three main things I want to have changed at the end of the six weeks are

  1. Our bedroom. It’s a dumping ground at the moment, I want it to be a sanctuary for me & hubby.
  2. The sunroom/Miss K’s playroom. Another dumping ground and a total mess.
  3. Keeping the stuff in our lounge to a minimum.

I’ll blog a bit more when I’ve finished week one.

100 things in 2013 *update

Here we are. Half way through 2013 already!

Updating my Goddess Workbook list of 100 things to do in 2013!!
Things in bold are started, strike thru is finished

  1. Work out a decent filing system
  2. Double my twitter followers (currently 519. As at 23 June – 609)
  3. Go to ProBlogger event (or get digital pass)
  4. Book ticket for DPCON 2014
  5. Blogger meet up in Tassie
  6. Blog everyday for 1 month
  7. Organise our office
  8. Set up a veggie garden
  9. Get a shed
  10. Set up a composting system
  11. Do Habithacker – Nest
  12. Find an inspirational quote & make it into a piece of artwork
  13. Get the laundry finished (just need to paint)
  14. Paint lounge & dining room
  15. Hang photos of Kara & family
  16. Get curtains for kitchen
  17. Start bathroom reno
  18. Get front yard done
  19. Have parents over for dinner more
  20. Spend a day at the beach
  21. Go on a picnic
  22. Have a regular ‘date night’
  23. Buy a Thermomix (it’s coming soon – yay!)
  24. Do a recipe book cull
  25. Create a custom recipe book
  26. Have more TV free time
  27. Get K into daycare 1 day a week
  28. Learn to make sour dough bread/rolls
  29. Make our own bread
  30. Have a candlelit dinner
  31. Do something for our wedding anniversary
  32. Write a letter to K to open on her 18th
  33. Start putting $$ into K’s bank account
  34. Open a Christmas Club account
  35. Get a new tattoo.
  36. Buy J a tattoo
  37. make/buy Christmas presents through the year
  38. Get our wills written
  39. Finish JYC from 2011 AND 2012!
  40. Swim more
  41. Exercise more
  42. Organise digital scrapbooking stuff
  43. Scrapbook with Mum at least once a month
  44. Scrap with others
  45. Organise a scrapbook event
  46. Do Frocktober again – I am so excited for what I have planned this year
  47. Read more books – gotta love iBooks 
  48. Drink more water
  49. Have a massage (thanks to hubby)
  50. Have a facial
  51. Have a manicure
  52. Create a book of advice for K
  53. Finish our wedding album – redoing in Project Life format (much easier & quicker)
  54. Go see Amanda Palmer in concert
  55. Get my L’s – got the book just need to book my test
  56. Take a burlesque class
  57. Spend a rainy day in PJs watching TV
  58. Banish bad memores
  59. Create a playlist of meditations
  60. Create a playlist of my favourite songs
  61. Watch 20 movies in our new movies folder (current count 5/20)
  62. Rewatch all 6 Star Wars movies
  63. Rewatch all 3 Lord of the Rings movies
  64. Go to bed before midnight
  65. Do every Fat Mum Slim Photo-a-day in 2013 (you can see my photos here)
  66. Go out for High Tea
  67. Buy mum something special
  68. Organise our MP3 collection
  69. Write J random love notes
  70. Complete a cross stitch
  71. Do 1 art journal page a week
  72. Catch up with friends more often – thanks to FB I’ve been catching up with a close friends lots
  73. Go watch an A League game live
  74. Go to Melbourne
  75. Xbox more
  76. Finally organise our bedroom
  77. Learn to play the guitar
  78. Go visit the snow
  79. Go camping
  80. Improve my cake decorating – thanks to Cake Decorating mag
  81. Photograph a lightning storm
  82. Take more photos of the moon – super moon tonight!!
  83. Create a mini Goddess altar
  84. Watch all the James Bond movies
  85. Write/finish a piece of fan fiction – writing a Doctor Who fan fic
  86. See more of Tassie
  87. Celebrate the seasons
  88. Finish our work website – just our portfolio to go
  89. Work on family tree
  90. Do Fox in Flat dares
  91. Go fishing
  92. Go watch the cricket live
  93. Take K to the footy at the MCG
  94. Go to the dawn service – was sick this year 🙁
  95. Go to the Botanical Gardens
  96. Buy K some guinea pigs
  97. Visit QVMAG
  98. Check out MONA
  99. Rejoin the Goddess Circle
  100. Enjoy life!!

Next post will be at the end of the year

100 things to do in 2013

Hello 2013!

Part of the Goddess Workbook I shared with you all the other day is a list of 100 things you would like to achieve in a year. It can be a list of anything at all. And for a bit of fun I thought I’d share my list with all of you. So here goes (& yes a lot of these are on my 101 things list to do in 1001 days)

  1. Work out a decent filing system
  2. Double my twitter followers (currently 519)
  3. Go to ProBlogger event (or get digital pass)
  4. Book ticket for DPCON 2014
  5. Blogger meet up in Tassie
  6. Blog everyday for 1 month
  7. Organise our office
  8. Set up a veggie garden
  9. Get a shed
  10. Set up a composting system
  11. Do Habithacker – Nest
  12. Find an inspirational quote & make it into a piece of artwork
  13. Get the laundry finished
  14. Paint lounge & dining room
  15. Hang photos of K & family
  16. Get curtains for kitchen
  17. Start bathroom reno
  18. Get front yard done
  19. Have parents over for dinner more
  20. Spend a day at the beach
  21. Go on a picnic
  22. Have a regular ‘date night’
  23. Buy a Thermomix
  24. Do a recipe book cull
  25. Create a custom recipe book
  26. Have more TV free time
  27. Get K into daycare 1 day a week
  28. Learn to make sour dough bread/rolls
  29. Make our own bread
  30. Have a candlelit dinner
  31. Do something for our wedding anniversary
  32. Write a letter to K to open on her 18th
  33. Start putting $$ into K’s bank account
  34. Open a Christmas Club account
  35. Get a new tattoo.
  36. Buy J a tattoo
  37. make/buy Christmas presents through the year
  38. Get our wills written
  39. Finish JYC from 2011 AND 2012!
  40. Swim more
  41. Exercise more
  42. Organise digital scrapbooking stuff
  43. Scrapbook with Mum at least once a month
  44. Scrap with others
  45. Organise a scrapbook event
  46. Do Frocktober again
  47. Read more books
  48. Drink more water
  49. Have a massage
  50. Have a facia
  51. Have a manicure
  52. Create a book of advice for K
  53. Finish our wedding album
  54. Go see Amanda Palmer in concert
  55. Get my L’s
  56. Take a burlesque class
  57. Spend a rainy day in PJs watching TV
  58. Banish bad memores
  59. Create a playlist of meditations
  60. Create a playlist of my favourite songs
  61. Watch 20 movies in our new movies folder
  62. Rewatch all 6 Star Wars movies
  63. Rewatch all 3 Lord of the Rings movies
  64. Go to bed before midnight
  65. Do every Fat Mum Slim Photo-a-day in 2013
  66. Go out for High Tea
  67. Buy mum something special
  68. Organise our MP3 collection
  69. Write J random love notes
  70. Complete a cross stitch
  71. Do 1 art journal page a week
  72. Catch up with friends more often
  73. Go watch an A League game live
  74. Go to Melbourne
  75. Xbox more
  76. Finally organise our bedroom
  77. Learn to play the guitar
  78. Go visit the snow
  79. Go camping
  80. Improve my cake decorating
  81. Photograph a lightning storm
  82. Take more photos of the moon
  83. Create a mini Goddess altar
  84. Watch all the James Bond movies
  85. Write/finish a piece of fan fiction
  86. See more of Tassie
  87. Celebrate the seasons
  88. Finish our work website
  89. Work on family tree
  90. Do Fox in Flat dares
  91. Go fishing
  92. Go watch the cricket live
  93. Take K to the footy at the MCG
  94. Go to the dawn service
  95. Go to the Botanical Gardens
  96. Buy K some guinea pigs
  97. Visit QVMAG
  98. Check out MONA
  99. Rejoin the Goddess Circle
  100. Enjoy life!!

I’ll post again mid year with an update on how I’m going.

Planning for 2013

Can you believe we’re nearly at the end of 2012? The year has just flown by!

I’m hoping to make 2013 more organised for our family and for me in general.

Starting out with my Inner B organiser. This is my second year using this diary and I’ve got to admit I love it. In 2013 I’m taking a bit of a cue from the lovely Tina and using some of her ideas in my organiser.

I’ve added a section for my 2013 Goddess Workbook, my blog and a section for Christmas. I even got a bit creative in Photoshop & made my own dividers. I’ve also culled some of the pages I probably won’t use in my diary but have added them to my home notebook (that’s a whole other post in itself).

Before the year starts I like to go through and add birthdays, anniversaries, Hawks events in Tassie and any other events I already know the dates of.

I love how the Inner B diary pages have four sections under the daily page and birthdays. I’ve assigned these for work, bloggy stuff I don’t want to forget (like sponsored posts, giveaway ending dates and the like), our menu plan for the week and Fat Mum Slim’s photo-a-day prompts (I’m hoping to do all 365 prompts in 2013)

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First is one of my favourite sections – Leonie Dawson’s Goddess Workbook. I could seriously give this section it’s own post! If you are interested in reading a bit more about the workbook you can check out my post about the 2012 workbook. I’m on my third workbook now but this is the first year I’ve printed it out and added it to my organiser. I’m hoping that works for me better.

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Each year you are given prompts to help ‘close’ the previous year before planning the year ahead. For 2013 I’ve actually managed to write a list of 100 things I’d like to do during the year (I’ll be sharing that list in early 2013). And there’s still many pages to fill in and my oracle reading for 2013. I’ll be doing this on New Year’s Eve – a good way to close the year of 2012

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Then we get into the section dedicated to my blog. (If you notice in the above photos it’s not in there yet. I stuffed up when I printed it so have to reprint it all) I used Organised Housewife Blog Planner for 2012. For 2013 I’ve printed a selection of pages I know I’ll use from the planner and left out things I know I won’t use (like the conference section cause there’s no conferences in sight for me in 2013 *sad face* but that is cool cause it means I can do awesome stuff closer to home). I’m going to try out the Confessions of a home schooler blog planner in 2013 to plan my blog post, giveaways and the like. She has a 2 free printables to choose from: a calendar style layout and a lined format post planner (I’ve gone with the lined format)

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I seriously have some big plans for my little blog in 2013 but you’ll have to wait til the new year to find out *wink* one I can announce is I will be starting an email newsletter. Not 100% on what it will include but I’ll let you know when it goes live 🙂

Finally I have a section just for Christmas. In 2012 I used the Organised Housewife Christmas Planner. Helped make everything much more organised & I plan to use it again for 2013. I’ve even started my gift idea list for 2013!!

So that’s my start to getting organised in 2013. Have you started your planning for 2013?

Life and stuff

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So I had another blog where I started to blog about my spirituality and things related to that. In all honesty I haven’t kept it up – I am so bad at maintaining more than one blog at a time LOL

What’s a girl to do? Bring that side of my life onto this blog of course. On of my resolutions for 2013 is to have a more spiritual thing in my life and since this blog is about my life, well it’s got a home here too.

I’ll be posting in a couple of days about one awesome resource I’ve been using for the last 2 years (this is my third year) and that is Leonie Dawson’s Goddess Workbook & Yearly Planner. This year it comes in 2 flavours – personal AND business.

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The 2013 Create Your Incredible Year workbook, planner & calendar is an incredibly popular & useful tool to help you plan out & make happen your most incredible year in life or busines (or both!). Over the last four years, thousands of women have used this workbook with the most amazing results. It’s the best planning tool available to help you make your year your most exceptional yet!

Used by entrepreneurs, artists, mamas, creatives, coaches, teachers and women of all ages, the Creating Your Incredible Year workbooks are filled with dozens of pages of powerful worksheets & a printable calendar to help you create your amazing new year.

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Make 2012 your Goddess year

I’m a firm believer that all women have an inner Goddess, no matter what their religion (or lack of). We are all beautiful and deserve to find the goddess within. I have decided to make 2012 MY Goddess year. Getting back in touch with my spiritual side if you will. One of the ways I’m doing this is by finally joining the Goddess Circle at Goddessguidebook.com (thanks to some unexpected $$ just before Christmas – this year is obviously the year I was meant to join the Goddess Circle, yes?).

There are so many AMAZING things on this site but one of my personal favourites I get every year is the Creating Your Goddess Year workbook, planner & calendar.

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It’s a goddess workbook, planner & calendar all rolled into one and features the gorgeous goddess artwork by site owner, & amazing Goddess, Leonie.
Leonie’s done a quick video about the 2012 workbook, planner & calendar

Seriously, how cute are those pages!

I printed mine out on Boxing Day and have added them into my household binder (but more about that in another post). I sat down on New Year’s Eve and filled the pages in. Ending 2011 & starting 2012.

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The Creating Your Goddess Year workbook, planner & calendar is only $9.95. How cheap is that? BUT join the Goddess Circle and you get it free (along with a WHOLE HEAP of of other Goddess goodies). Want to know more about the Goddess Circle?

Amazing, yes? All that for $99. There’s also a payment plan if you can’t afford the $99 upfront. How cool is that!!

AND (yup there is more – no, not steak knives) there are also a heap of Goddess Freebies on the site.

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Goddess Leonie is the creator of GoddessGuideBook.com, a popular creativity, spirituality & business blog for women.
Visit her website at www.goddessguidebook.com & grab her free Goddess in 10 Minutes Kit!

You can check out more of Leonie’s videos on YouTube or connect with her on Twitter @GoddessLeonie

Disclaimer – I received a copy of the 2012 Goddess Guidebook for review. The links to the workbook and Goddess Circle above are affiliate links. Thank you if you choose to use them.
All opinions are my own.