The Power of Journaling

I began journaling I think as soon as I could write complete sentences. I always was trying to find a way to getting everything going on in my head out. There was very little method is my scribing. Sometimes, I would write daily, even multiple times a day, and then other times, it would be weeks, if not, months...probably even years if I am honest. Regardless of frequency, I always returned. Things would become too overwhelming. Life would feel too bad. I’d be struggling with something I just couldn’t get over. Writing always seemed to help. It might not have helped immediately, but it just felt good to get some of the mundane madness out of the churn that existed within me.

How Vision Boards Can Change Your Life

How Vision Boards Can Change Change Your Life

If you don’t believe me, read on

Back in 2008, I was getting ready to graduate from MBA school and started a vision board with Blogger. I was excited and nervous to move back to China. [Side note: I told my mom at 10 that the Forbidden City used to be my house and I wanted to learn Chinese and move to China. I studied abroad in Beijing in 2001.] Due to my previous experience with wanting something so much and it happening, I figured why not outline the rest of what I wanted in life.

Text from 2008 board 

Type A and Perfectionism

So, in the past few years that I've been thinking about starting this blog, I had thought about the various platforms (WP.org, WP.com, Blogger) and some that I have found since I've researched platforms at my current job (Zoho, Bitrix24, Google Sites).  I was most familiar with Blogger as that is how I hosted a blog when I lived in China, but that was also 10 years ago.  

My Why

I have been thinking about starting this blog for over 2 years.  I have gone through I can't tell you how many fonts, designs, palettes, journals, notebooks, pens.  You name it.  Then, I actually started to create different websites.  I think I've created the same website at least 5 times now on different platforms.  Finally, I decided I just have to begin because well, why not?

I love journaling, I've blogged in the past about a totally different topic, China, which is still my passion, but it seems like the right time to begin something fresh and new.  So here I am...trying to find my WHY.  I have found a lot of it over the years through self-reflection, writing, being introspective, reading, and most recently through my husband and little Bella Boo.

 
Ultimately, I want to work for myself so I have the freedom to raise my little girl, have financial freedom, am not constrained by debt, and to express myself publicly through the written word.  I look forward to the adventure.  For life truly is always a magical adventure.