How is your year going? Already 20 weeks of the year are gone, may be it's time to revise your New Year resolutions in your diary, or just start with a fresh list. Here's a great and quick exercise about planning: take 6 small pieces of paper (I'm using post-its, but you might find useful to write on A5 paper sheets for the first time), and write one area of your life where you want to concentrate on the top of each list. Then write 6 doable tasks that are related to each topic. I recommend to use separate sheets, so you can fill write your tasks not one by one, but whatever comes to your mind. After that you can put all topics and tasks together in one weekly to-do list. It's simple, takes 5-10min of your time only, and really works.
And here are your journaling cards about goals and achievements, to keep your mood at the right level.

Love to use journaling cards for quick occasions and my diary writing. Hope you're enjoying them too. Here's another batch, about family, I sincerely enjoying my quite home coziness.

I have some problems with my knees and lower back, that's why I had to be twice cautious while exercising in the gym. You can take these cards with you, and try for this easy workout yourself.

What can you tell about a person when you read his favourite quotes? Does it help to understand him better? Do you like mine?

Sorry, but I suppose not all journaling cards should be happy, we all have bad days. In my case I had sleepless nights and gloomy office days. The only advantage in such periods - you can read a lot. If you experience the same, download my diary cards about insomnia.

I advise everyone to meditate systematically, even you think it's rather odd and "too spiritual". Let's admit we have too many things in our plate, much more information than our grandparents had. And it doesn't make us feel special, or extremely productive, all we do is placing more unnecessary stuff to our memory, and getting more stress and fuss.

Meditate for half an hour every day unless you are too busy. In that case meditate for an hour.

And the best start for meditation is Today. With Headspace you'll get first 10 meditations for free and learn how to manage your brain in a better way (not an ad, I just love Headspace!), And download my journaling cards as reminders for your meditation pauses.

Happy Easter, everyone. As I was born and raised according to post-Soviet standards, my generation is "not inspired by religion". However, I accept religious holidays as a part of nature changes, combined with some Slavic beliefs, and I feel in harmony with myself. Do you like my Easter cards? :)