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Book & Reading Quotes for Your Planner

September 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

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October seems like the perfect time to put on a sweater, find a hot drink, and cuddle up with a book. Here are some book and reading-related quotes perfect for your planner. Let me know which quotes are your favorite or if you have any favorite book or reading quotes, not on my list!

First, here is a book-related quote we all need to remember: never judge a book by its movie.

Though there are so many more book or reading-related quotes, I chose a select few, partially because they were short enough to be included in a bullet journal or planner. Then I separated them into a few different book quote categories.

Getting Things Done & Making Things Happen – Inspiring Book & Reading Related Quotes

Books are more than just entertaining escapes to worldly troubles. I know I read books for entertainment but I also read them for inspiration and motivation.

  • The world belongs to those who read. – Rick Holland
  • The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss
  • Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
  • The reading of all good books is conversations with the finest (people) of the past centuries. – Descartes
  • Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -Joseph Addison
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Change and Educate Your Mind – Book Quotes

  • Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz
  • I’ve read too many books to believe what I am told. -Suheir Hammad
  • One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. – Cassandra Clare
  • Books don’t change people; paragraphs do, sometimes even sentences. – John Piper
  • When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you. – Lemony Snicket
  • You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. – Ray Bradbery
  • Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Spending Time & Money – Reading Quotes

  • So many books, so little time.
  • One more chapter…I whispered two hours ago.
  • Books – one of the few things you can buy that will make you richer.
  • Money talks. Mine always says, “wanna go to the bookstore today?”
  • Today I’d like to sit and read. Forget I have a job I need. Ignore the things I have to do. And just enjoy a book or two.
  • Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. – Lena Dunham

Enveloped in the Story

  • Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up heart and soul. – Joanne Harris
  • A book a day keeps reality away.
  • Books are uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King
  • I have lived a thousand lives & I loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds & seen the end of time because I read. – George R. R. Martin
  • I am not a bookworm. I’m an escape artist.
  • Once you learn to read, you will be free forever.
  • We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there, too.
  • A book is a dream you hold in your hands. – Neil Gilman
  • Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. – Jean Rhys
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Happiness Through Reading Quotes

  • I cannot live without books.
  • What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? – Anthony Trollope
  • Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy. – JK Rowling
  • I always kept two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Quantity of Books

Who has enough books? I know I don’t.

  • It’s always better to have too much to read than too little.
  • Too many books? I think what you mean is not enough bookshelves.
  • A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Cicero

Bonus: Definitions

In addition to these book & reading quotes for your planner, here are a few book & reading-related definitions:

  • Bibliophagist (n.) An avid or voracious reader
  • Logophile (n.) a lover of words
  • Biblichor (n.) the comforting, faint & musty smell of old books
  • Bibliophile (n.) one who is keenly devoted to books
  • Antiquarian (adj.) of, dealing in, or interested in old or rare books.
  • Bibliopegy (n.) the art of binding books
  • Bibliocentric (adj.) placing great or central importance on printed texts
  • Bibliometric (n.) use of statistical methods to analyze books, articles, and other publications.
  • Bibliomaniac (n.) one who is keenly devoted to books
  • Bibliotheca (n.) library, archive
  • Incunabulum (n.) an early printed book, especially one printed before 1501

I hope you found some inspiring book or reading quotes for your planner. I’d love to know which ones you include! Tag me on Instagram @ChocolateMusingsCreates and use #myplanningmuse.

Other Book & Reading Posts

Now that you’ve gotten your book quote fix, check out these other book & reading posts to inspire you in your bullet journal.

  • How to Set Up a Habit Tracker in your Planner
  • Find Your Inspiration (When It’s Lost)
  • My Muses #3: Favorite Reasons for Habit Tracking
  • Word of the Year Ideas

Here are some books I’ve read on organizing, decluttering, and habits. I’d love a recommendation and add it to my list. Let me know if you have more to add in the comments below.  

 

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15 Short Quotes About Worrying (and How to Quit)

July 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

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There are so many more good quotes on letting go of worry and focusing on what you can control in life. I don’t think this will be the last post on quotes about worrying (and letting go!) for me.

It seems like worrying has become part of my everyday life, and I’d really like to change it. Whenever I decide to change something, I look up some motivational quotes on the subject. Wise words seem to shift my focus, adjust my mood, and set me straight.

Although, before we get into the quotes, I have to preface this post, the main word in these quotes may be “worry,” but the theme is all about getting past the worry and living. Because I feel that while I’m worrying, I’m not truly living.

Quotes About Worry (and Letting Go!)

If you can’t do anything about it, then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change. – Tony Gaskins

Worry is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere. – English Proverb

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Relax. Worry is infamous for being inaccurate. – Karen Salmansohn

Stop worrying about what can go wrong, and get excited about what can go right! – Unknown

Why worry. If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. – Walt Disney

Worrying means you suffer twice. – Newt Scamander (JK Rowling)

Worry is a misuse of the imagination. – Unknown

I know worrying works because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened. – Will Rogers

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. – Janis Joplin

Learn to let things you cannot control go. – Unknown

The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles. – Unknown

Where focus goes, energy flows. – Unknown

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength. – Unknown

How to Adapt a Quote to Fit You

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I love the quote, “worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength’. However, it doesn’t quite fit me.

If a quote doesn’t quite fit, modify it for you & your life. I’m not saying tweak one word and then start selling the phrase, but I am saying that you can edit a sentence to appeal to your personal goals.

For instance, you could replace strength with joy, pleasure, peace, quiet, etc. I prefer the word joy instead. So I would write it: worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its joy, which fits my goals and ambitions more than the word strength.

Remember that if a quote doesn’t quite fit what you need or your situation, adapt it! Make the saying yours.

Do You Have More Quotes on Worrying (but Really Letting Things Go)?

Have you come across a good quote on worrying or letting things go? I’d love to hear it. Leave me a comment below!

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75+ Resilience Quotes For Your Planner

March 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

Find 75+ Short (ish) quotes on resilience perfect for jotting down in your planner. Save some for later & share as many as you like.

I don’t know about you, but this year so far has been very stressful for me. Do you feel it too?

My word of the year may be ‘consistency’, but resilience was a close second choice. I light of current personal and world situations, I think the world could do with some motivational resiliency quotes.

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What is Resilience?

Wouldn’t you like the ability to bounce back when you encounter something hard? Resiliency isn’t just getting knocked down and continuing on the same path. I view resilience as adjusting your vision, tweaking your plan, making room for changes, and keep going on your desired course.

What Does Resilience Mean to you?

Dictionary.com: The power or ability to return to original form. That sounds to me like resilience is an action!

Whatever it means to you, I know I could do with some inspirational resilience quotations for my planner to remind me to keep going. So I searched all over the internet and found some fantastic resilience quotes perfect for your planner. Let me know which one is your favorite! And feel free to pin any quotes you like.

To help organize the different quotes – I separated them further into themes. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the topics I’ve chosen for the list of quotes about being resilient in the comments below.

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Mantras

It’s not just about quotes. Sometimes you need to see it and repeat it so you can develop resiliency.

Resilience – thriving amid adversity

I am resilient.

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Resilience Quotes – Dealing with Fear & Developing Courage

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -W Clement Stone

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. – Dan Rather

“Truth be told, you will never really know just how strong and adamant you are unless adversity strikes. Then you learn courage, you build resilience, you learn to persevere, you build character.” — T. Whitmore

“No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience.” — Eric Greitens

Know that deep inside, you are resilient, brave and so much stronger and more powerful than your fears.

“I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance.” — Lee Ann Womack

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Overcoming Failure/Quitting

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. – Tony Robbins

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you didn’t even try. – Jack Canfield

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. – Muhammad Ali

The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

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Success

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be a failure. – Confucius

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. – Zig Ziglar

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. – Nelson Mandela

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher

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Character/Strength

How do you act when things don’t go your way, or you experience setbacks? Quotes on developing a resilient character through developing strength.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. – Drew Barrymore

People do not lack strength, they lack will. – Victor Hugo

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. – Abraham Lincoln


Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. – Bob Marley

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ― Steve Maraboli

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Outlook

Our outlook on life makes a huge difference! Quotes on developing a resilient attitude

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. – Charles Dickens

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ― Helen Keller

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” ― Elizabeth Edwards

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” ― J.K. Rowling

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.” ― Elizabeth Edwards

“Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up.” — Janna Cachola

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Choice

These quotes highlight that being resilient may not come naturally, but we have a choice!

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

The only thing that can stop me, is me. – Unknown

Falling down is an accident. Staying down is a choice. – Unknown

Do what is right, not what is easy. – Roy T. Bennett

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – John C. Maxwell

Being weak is a choice, so is being strong. – Frank Zane

Don’t let your struggle become your identity.

Stop waiting for things to happen, go out and make them happen.

“Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.” — James G. Stavridis

“We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” ― Stephen Covey

“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” ― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can’t take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action.” ― Ryder Carroll

Work

There will be obstacles – There will be doubters -There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. – Michael Phelps

Work gives your meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. – Stephen Hawking

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Future

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength. – Corrie Ten Boom

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extra-ordinary destiny. – CS Lewis

The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation. – Unknown

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. – Buddha

Past

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I’ve overcome it. – Mary J. Blige

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

One small crack doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means that you were put to the test and didn’t fall apart. – Unknown

Obstacles

Quotes about overcoming using resilience

Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. -Barbara Sher

The best view comes after the hardest climb.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

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Move Forward – Key to Resiliency

Just a little side note here – I think that moving forward despite what’s happened is the key to being resilient. These resilience quotes are particularly impactful to me.

Keep moving forward.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. – Thomas A. Edison

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ― Japanese Proverb

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston Churchill

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further. – Thomas Carlyle

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Growth

No rain. No Flowers.

Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Unknown

Remember, when you forgive, you heal. And when you let go, you grow. – Unknown

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. – Jamais Cascio

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it. – Winston Churchill

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” ― Shane Koyczan

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Habit-Related Resilience Quotes

“Although most of us don’t spend time thinking about our thoughts, increasing your awareness of your thinking habits proves useful in building resilience.” — Amy Morin

“Change what you can, manage what you can’t.” — Raymond McCauley

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

I think that resilience can become a habit, changing how we react and come back after a setback is no minor feat, so it must be developed like a habit.

As you may know – I use my bullet journal to help me work on all sorts of habits. Breaking old ones and creating new ones. You can explore my habit posts here. I love these resilient/habit quotes and hope to find more in the future.

Summary

I hope these resilience quotes have motivated you to bounce back when you have a setback and keep moving forward. If you can’t change it, manage it.

I’d love to know which one of these resilience quotes is your favorite, and if you use any in your planner or bullet journal, tag me on Instagram.

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25+ Gratitude Quotes for Your Planner

October 17, 2019 2 Comments

25+ Gratitude Quotes for Your Planner

Celebrating #NationalGratitudeMonth

Considering that November is #NationalGratitudeMonth I plan on focusing more thoughts and time to developing gratitude. Do you feel like it’s something you could improve in your life, too?

I found some great quotes on gratitude and I wanted to share them with you. Feel free to use any of them in your planner. Many of these quotes would work well in your planner or bullet journal. In fact, many of them would work well inscribed on a wall.

Gratitude isn’t just for #NationalGratitudeMonth in November. I know I need to include the practice of celebrating gratefulness more often in my life. In fact, I’d like to make it a daily practice, more so than I do right now. But what better time to start than now?

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Find my stash of random holidays here.

If you’re coming across this post whether it’s November, February or June or any time between, these gratitude quotes are a great starting point as a reminder to stop and appreciate the world around us and the things we have in our lives. My challenge to you is to find some way to elevate your expression of gratitude. I’d love to know about your adventure.

If you use any of these quotes in your planner, I’d love to see and share them so tag me on Instagram @ChocolateMusingsCreates.

Subclasses of Gratitude Quotes

After reading many of these quotes, it occurred to me that I could classify these gratitude quotes into sub-categories. I’d love to get some feedback from you – if I should move a quote to a different sub-category or create a whole new sub-category for these reminders of gratefulness, please leave me a comment below!

Also, I’d love to know if I skipped over any of your favorite gratitude quotes. Drop me a line and let me know!

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Gratitude Quotes – World Around Us

When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life. – Paul J Meyer

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe. – Wayne Dyer

The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see. – Mary Davis

Some people grumble that roses have thorns. I am grateful that thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr

The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs is more people to appreciate and enjoy it. – Michael Josephson

Personal Transformation

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. – William Arthur Ward

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. – William James

Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack of abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality. – Jen Sincero

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more, it turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. – Melody Beattie

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. – Henry Ward Beecher

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. – Anthony Robbins

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. – Willie Nelson

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. – Gerald Good

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

Happiness

I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy. – Will Arnett

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude. – Brene Brown

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. – Dennis Waitley

Gratitude & Action

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy

Enjoy every moment.

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abundance

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. – Cynthia Ozick

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. – Zig Ziglar

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault

The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. – Charles Schwab

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama

“Enough” is a feast – Buddhist Proverb

If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. – Frank A Clark

Want More Quotes? Here’s My Growing List

Quotes are and forever will be among my favorite things in this world. So I will strive to share more with you. View my list of quote-related blog posts.

Which Gratitude Quotes Do You Like the Most?

After reading some of these quotes, I know I am lacking in the gratitude department and will strive to live with an attitude of gratitude. Which ones are your favorite or how would you classify the gratitude quotes?

If what they say is true, gratitude will help enhance your life, bring more meaning to your days, make you see clearly the true blessings in your life and enhance the peace you feel.

I am all for these things, and if you are too, let’s try adding a little more gratitude every day to our lives. Rather than feel guilty, let’s become more grateful. We can do this, together.

Because I want to be sure that expressing more gratitude actually works, I plan on writing either a sentence or a word that I’m grateful for every day in November. Either dedicating a page in my planner for the word or phrase or writing it in my journal. Do you want to express more gratitude as well? And as a result of your gratitude experiment, what do you think it will do to your outlook on life?

Want to start planning or bullet journaling? Here are some of my favorite supplies to get you started.

No Matter Which Notebook I use – You’ll Always Find These Supplies Close at Hand

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Find Your Inspiration (When It’s Lost)

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Find Your Lost Inspiration

I’m sure at one point in time you’ve lost your inspiration or creative muse. This month, my muses were all about helping you ‘find your inspiration’ because over the summer, I lost my inspiration. It felt like someone turned out the light on my creativity, and I’ve been clamoring to find that switch and turn it back on.

How I Lost My Inspiration

The last few months have been very dark – creatively. Starting with a week’s horrible sickness for my entire family the end of May, followed by the end of school and subsequently, the end of our regular daily routine.

Though I love summer, the chaos that coincides with it wreaks havoc on my inspiration. I usually have an abundance of ideas, too many for me to implement. But this summer, all my ideas dried up, and I felt like I was in a desert searching for water.

Maybe it was that I lost the everyday regimen of school day structure or if it was that the kids were home more (and bickering more) or if work was particularly stressful this summer, but I was in a deep creative funk. I wanted to create, I wanted to draw and write and express myself, but I couldn’t find the motivation or the inspiration to do much of anything.

Ideas to Try – Where I Started

Knowing how to recover or get out of a funk is probably the most valued advice I could give or receive. Unfortunately, I have not found the ultimate answer to that puzzle, yet. When I figure it out, I will share it with you. However, there were several things I tried & found, so I’m sharing those with you today.

But what I did do, was let myself have time. Once I was ready, and I felt like I wasn’t forcing creativity, I started watching some Skillshare teachers and seeking inspiration.

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

In my case, I could amend this fantastic quote by Dumbledor to say, “inspiration can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

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This month I’ve tried to focus on getting back into routine and creating order in my life. I laid out my planner using time blocks so I can organize my time.

Adding a section in my planner called “One Big Goal” – helped me focus on one big purpose for the month. I find that I lose my creativity if I let myself get too distracted and try to do everything at once.

All these efforts have helped restore my creativity, bit by bit.

Here are a few other things that helped me find my inspiration, again

I hope these things will help you find your inspiration, too!

Inspiration Muse #1

Kindle Paperwhite

One of my goals is to read a book per month (or more!). I love physical books, but don’t like taking them around with me. Reading on my phone became problematic because:

  1. It took too much battery
  2. I couldn’t see it in the daylight
  3. Other apps distract me
  4. Reading on the tablet was also problematic because of the battery usage (I never had any juice left to create after using it to read!).

My boss gave me a Kindle Paperwhite for my birthday (thank you to my boss and thanks to husband for giving them that idea). And I LOVE it. It eliminates distraction while reading – no alerts or dings, pop-ups like my phone. The battery lasts like the energizer bunny. Reading in daylight is like reading a book – there’s no glare.

You can read in the bath. Yes, you read that right. It even recommended it on the packaging.

To explain how much I adore this new device, I’m going to channel Dr. Seuss:

You can read on a train, on a plane in a car or at a bar. On a bus? No distraction, only focus. Read outside or in a box, while you take off your socks. Even read in the bath (there’s no aftermath!). The backlight at night is simply a delight! Don’t forget that the device is very light.

-Me

Ok, I’ll stop. I’m excited to read all the Kindle books I’ve collected over the years and borrow many more from my library. If I connect Bluetooth to it, I can listen to my Audible books, too. If you can’t tell, I’m a fan.

You bet I have all of these books queued up!

Inspiration Muse #2

Number Stickers

My creation out of necessity. Because I hated writing numbers over and over again, and when I do, I ALWAYS get out of sequence. But I wanted to use time blocking in my planner, which requires writing the numbers again and again. I created them to fit precisely with a 5mm grid on matte sticker paper. 14 to a sheet – it covers two weeks.

I cut down the sticker to use only the hours in the day that I’m awake – but you could use it any way you want – to track sleep, to plan out your hourly activities or a typical day.

I also have a 1-31 number sticker that I used to create a monthly log. Find them both in my shop!

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Inspiration Muse #3

Skillshare

Skillshare is an online learning community where there are literally hundreds of classes taught by many individuals on a variety of subjects. I found it over a year ago, and LOVE it. I just counted and I’ve watched more than 125 classes (some more than once). There’s more than just painting, art and lettering. There are SO many choices. It is one of my most favorite places online.

Try for free – watch as many classes as you like. If you’re new or already subscribe to Skillshare, find me over there – @ChocolateMusingsCreates

Some of my favorite classes:

Liz Kohler Brown – Create Cuttings on your iPad – if you have ProcreateApp on an iPad, she is THE artist to follow. She teaches so many courses and I have learned so much.
Kolbie Blume – Beginner’s Galaxy – I recently found her and simply adore her watercolor classes.
Kiki B – Drawing Consistent Letters with Basic Supplies – Taught by one of my friends (we met lettering – ok, we’ve never actually met, but nonetheless she’s my friend). Want to learn how to create letters from scratch? This is an insanely useful class.
Lisa Long – 3D lettering in procreate – making letters look 3D and simply amazing.
Cat Coquillette – Modern Watercolor Techniques – Seriously inspiring! I’ve learned so much from her.
Yasmina Creates – her Doodle Magic class, Thumbnail Sketching, Anyone Can Watercolor, You Can Draw Anything!

Skillshare inspires me when my creativity flows freely, what’s more, is that it encourages creativity when there is but little more than a small trickle or drip of my inspiration.

Here are some of My Favorite Skillshare Projects

Every single one of these projects (plus all the others I’ve done) has inspired some other thing down the line. It’s ok to experiment, it’s ok to find something new to try. Don’t limit yourself.

In Summary: To Find Your Inspiration & Reignite your Creativity – Try Some of These Things:

  • Give yourself time
  • Don’t force it
  • Follow a daily schedule
  • Change your daily schedule
  • Create a time to focus
  • Eliminate distractions
  • Choose one thing
  • Solve a problem (like my number stickers solved a problem for me)
  • Learn something new that has an assignment at the end – so you feel compelled to create

I hope my muses have inspired you in some way. I’d love to know what muses you turn to, and which ones provide the most inspiration.

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Hi! I'm Tricia, the creative behind ChocolateMusings.com, I know how it feels to lose your inner muse. After years of darkness (which I call the dark ages of my life), I found my inner muse hiding in the forgotten corners of my soul, I vowed never to lose sight of her again.

Bullet journaling helped reignite the passion for art and living life again while organizing my days. I also discovered modern calligraphy and watercolor. Since then, my use of the bullet journal system has evlolved and I call it 'creative planning'. Here on the blog, I show you how to use your planner to ignite your inner muse and explore creativity and art while staying beautifully organized and living a joyful life.

I invite you to grab some good chocolate and dive into my musings. Let’s ignite your inner muse.

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