Welcome to the Planners 2021!!

This year is going to end soon with the beginning of a brand new year. People like me got another chance to do experiments with their planners. This year(2020) I had decided to use a planner designed by me according to my needs. It was a really fun, rustic, and relaxing experience. Although I faced some issues due to lack of time. So I decided to go back and start using planners available in the market. I thought it is the best rustic way for me to deal with the next year.

On the other hand, the Internet is flooded with a variety of such planners. You can even gift them to those who like stationery products and are fond of this planner system. I know it is costly, but just divide the total amount by 12, to get the monthly expenditure of your planner. If you still think it's not economical then you can always go for a handmade planner. Click here for a free course about journaling that includes how to set up your own bullet journal/planner.

Let's have a look at some of the famous Planner 2021 available:

• Alicia Souza - The 2021 Ultimate Planner & Pocket Planner: I have used the previous versions of this planner. One thing which I can predict, with just my experience only, is that it will always motivate you to open this planner. The quality, design, and everything is pretty tempting. It has its undated version too as you can see below.

December 2020 : Bullet Journal Cover

Hello! This is my December 2020 Bullet Journal Cover. Due to some time constraints, I prefer this simple one. Although after finishing, it is looking very cool just like this month. I don't know what I liked more: Its combination of colors and black or its simplicity. It has falling leaves plus growing ones too. 

For this month, I have this theme: "Action>Words". It is the end of the year. We have to start preparing for the next year. So it's time for action rather than just using words. We have to lay the foundation for next year to get the maximum from it. To know more about this theme system click here.

November 2020: Bullet Journal Cover

Hello! This is my November 2020 Bullet journal cover. Finally, this year is going to end soon. we have only two months left. This year was way more unpredictable than others. But let's hope for a better year ahead.

Why Everyone is so Obsessed with Honey??

I never understood why people were so obsessed with Honey until it came to my life. It wasn't intentional. But after using it, I realized that we have to add products like this in our life to get a healthier version of ourselves. 

Benefits of Honey

The Other Way of Practicing Mindfulness

 

Mindfulness has no perfect definition. It's a science of knowing your inner self and thereby understanding your actions. It is a way of becoming the best version of yourself. 

Ways to Practice Mindfulness:

We can classify the ways to practice mindfulness broadly in two categories:

October 2020 : Bullet Journal Cover

Hello! So this is my October 2020 Bullet journal cover. I was like playing with colors to make it special because of some obvious reasons ( it is my birthday month).  It can be interpreted in a number of ways. But for me, it says, " Whenever it Rains, look for Rainbow".

How to Teach online and Start Earning Like an Expert?

According to a recent report, the worldwide e-learning market is projected to be worth $ 325 billion in 2025. Due to its continuous growth, competition in this field is also getting tough. But with the help of a few basics tips, you can stand out from the crowd. Before going a little bit deeper into it, subscribe to this blog ( from the link given at the bottom) to stay connected.

Teacher's Day Gift Ideas under Rs 500

There are many types of teachers. Some are good🥰 and some are strict😓. Some are funny😉 and some are ideal🤓. But they are the ones who indirectly shape us. And teachers' day is a special day on which you can show gratitude to them and make an everlasting impression by giving them a token of appreciation and respect. This doesn't mean it should be heavy on our pockets😣. Here I have few ideas that you can use to make that impression and that too under Rs 500!!😮. Let us start this :

September 2020 : Bullet Journal Cover

Hello! Slowly and gradually our life is adjusting to the new reality which is basically working from home. And to depict this gradual change I made this as my September 2020 Bullet journal cover.

What I liked most about this cover is the change that is happening in it. It is quite resembling the change that has come to my life. This is the most interesting part of the bullet journal. You can shape each page according to your life at that point. That's why it is very personal. It's like a friend to me who knows everything about me and who understands me like no one else can do.

Painting Hacks You Need to Know to Draw like a PRO Artist

The Internet is full of paintings and sketches and nowadays people are more active in this. This makes me wish to draw like them. But not everyone is blessed with that skill. Here I have some hacks that will help you in becoming a PRO Artist and draw awesome paintings. Don't forget to subscribe to this blog to get such hacks as soon as they are uploaded ( The subscription option is given at the bottom of this page. So let's get started:

How Future Anxieties aren't as Bad as You Think

 

According to a study ( in 2017 ), an estimated one in seven Indians suffered from mental disorders of varying severity with depression and anxiety being the commonest. So congrats!! You are not alone. It's a common thing.  I am sure this data has relaxed you a little bit and for more relaxation keep reading.

5 Useful Tips for Time Management

Hello Everyone! I know this pandemic has changed our lives a lot. Has it locked our minds also? If no, then why are we wasting time just worrying about things that may not even happen. Like other things, this time will also pass on. You must use it efficiently to get a kickstart in your life which will start again after this pandemic. This is your golden time and you don’t want to miss it after knowing its value.

I know these things sound good but implementing them is a tough task. But you don’t need to worry because here I have 5 useful tips for you that will help you in managing this golden time. Don't forget to subscribe to this blog to stay connected (the subscription option is given at the bottom of this page).

The Story of a Bride: Storm Disguised in Beautiful Colors

Hello everyone! Here I have a beautiful painting drawn by my best friend. She is so awesome in this art (you can follow her from here! ). I loved this one a lot. Ok, tell me the first word which came to your mind after looking at this. Well, this is the beauty of art. It can be interpreted in many ways. And you can see from the title about my interpretation: The Story of a Bride: Storm Disguised in Beautiful Colors. Let me take you a little bit more deeply into it.

Friendship Day Gift Ideas Under Rs 500 !!

Hello! How are you ?? I hope you and your friends are good. And now it's time to make your friends feel special. So here I have a few suggestions for friendship day gift and that too under Rs 500 only !! Do subscribe to this blog to get such posts regularly. So let's start this :

• Book or Hobby stuff: This kind of stuff helps in finding internal peace. You can buy it for yourself also.

Weight Loss Rewards !!

Weight loss is the ultimate reward that we want. But sometimes our weight loss journey becomes boring and less motivating😓. In those times, we need to give rewards to ourselves in order to stay motivated and stick to our goals. This reward system is applicable to any trackable journey. 

Here I have examples of rewards which you can give to yourselves😉. The only rule here is to gift those things which are either motivating ( so that you stay on your track ) or make you feel happy without any distractions. It's like guilt-free shopping ( this is why I love this a lot😍 ). You can subscribe to this blog to get all such articles.

August 2020 Bullet Journal Cover

Hello everyone! I made this August 2020 cover in just five minutes 😎. Wow! I am saving so much time😂.

Since it's raining for many days and I checked the weather also where it is more going to rain, so I have decided on this cloudy cover...it was fun doing this in less than 5 minutes...

Weird Gift Ideas for Raksha Bandhan Under Rs 500 !!

Hello everyone! Here I have some weird gift ideas for your irritating and yet loving sibling on this occasion of Raksha Bandhan and that too under Rs 500 only.

Don't Have Time For Workout ?? Here's 20 Minutes HIIT Weight Loss Workout Routine For Beginners

Hello Everyone! I know we all wanted to become physically active 🏃but we have time issues. There are some people who even don't know how to start this😓. So here I have an easy solution😉 for all of you that not only makes you physically active but will cause weight loss also ( although the amount of weight loss will be determined by your diet). Well, it's already mentioned in the title that we will use HIIT as our solution.

HIIT is high-intensity interval training. We will do exercise with high intensity for a few seconds and then take a short break and again repeat the process. This will continue for a few minutes. According to researchers, HIIT produces the same benefits as other normal workouts in a shorter duration of time😎.

Here I have a 20 Minutes HIIT weight loss workout routine for beginners. So the steps are :

July 2020

Hello Everyone! So this is my July 2020 journal cover page. I thought this month things should be more related to nature, and the best symbol of nature is plants/leaves.

 Colouring everything in green was very relaxing. It's like a color therapy where green is used to get relief from stress and to restore the overall balance.

Journey of a Father

Hello everyone! Today I will share some different aspects of a beautiful💫 journey from a Boy to a Man and then finally to a Father.

When he is a Boy 🙇 , he is dependent on others on every matter. His responsibility level is zero. He only cares about himself. He is very curious. He just wants to know the world.

6 minutes Yoga Workout for Stress Free Living

Hello everyone! Today I have a special 6 minutes Yoga workout for you which will help you in reducing stress, anxiety, and other such issues. I know it may sound a little bit hypothetical, but you can feel the change in just 6 minutes. Let's begin this session:

   

1. Deep breathing: Sit in a comfortable position. Take a deep breath and fill your lungs with air. Release the breath. Do this for 15 seconds.

Special Interview with Jenna !!

Hello everyone! Today I have a special guest with me - Jenna 🥰. We are having a small chit-chat session. So let's know her through this session :

June 2020

Hello everyone! So finally May 2020 is going to end and June 2020 is going to start.

For this month's journal cover, I decided to draw something lemon and orange mix because they give a little bit of cooling sensation to reduce the heat of this month.

The Hidden Thorns

Hello everyone! Today I am going to share a short story with you...

It was a beautiful day. I decided to give her a special surprise. What could be better than a perfect bouquet of roses? So I bought it, removed all the thorns, packed it beautifully, and sprinkled her favorite fragrance on it. I knew that she would start jumping after having this surprise and would definitely add those flowers in her project whose final presentation was on that day itself. That project was very important for her. I was well prepared and made very clear instructions to the courier person. 

Lockdown Lessons !!

Well, I don't know when will this lockdown be lifted completely. But staying in our homes have made me realized a few things which I would like to share with you :

• I have learned a new meaning of family👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. I mean Living with them 24*7 inside one house, with all having one common agenda of staying safe, have made me understand their perspective better. Now I know there is no prominent member of a family. Each member is important in their own way and has a perfect role here which cannot be interchanged with others.
  

• Another important thing I have realized is that the most important part of a house is the Kitchen. Yes !! It contains real treasures🎇🎇. And there is no limit to exploring it. You can try making new dishes every day through the internet or any other source, and still, there will be so many new recipes left on this planet. It will never be over. But the fun part is that now I feel Like a Kitchen King  - Ready to fight hunger🤴.

Mother - A living Goddess

Every year we celebrate Mother's day on the second Sunday of May. Mothers 👩‍👧‍👦are the most special person in our lives.

 I was wondering that in our whole lifetime, we see many goddesses in our mothers. We just don't realize this and take her for granted. Here I have names of few goddesses ( according to Hindu mythology ) that we see commonly in our mums:

• Saraswati ( symbol of knowledge ): Our first teacher is our mother🤱. She taught 📝us when we were just newborns. She will be the one who will always try to teach you despite your age.

World Laughter Day

We usually celebrate World Laughter Day on the first Sunday of May every year to increase the awareness of the healing benefits of laughter. Actually, we forgot how to laugh, so now we are celebrating this day just to remind us of the meaning of laughter.

Journey to Self Exploration

Hello everyone! 

Today I am trying this new concept of the podcast😅. I really need your honest feedback. So please share your experience here with me😊.

Life is a Sine Wave !!

I don't know 🤔whether you all are aware of a sine wave or not. So here is a brief introduction to this wave.

May 2020

Hello everyone🙏 ! April is going to end soon. It was a different month for us😅. We can also call it a lockdown⛓ month. And soon we will have a new month - MAY 2020🥳😊.

Golden anniversary of Earth day

Since 1970, Earth day🌏 is being celebrated every year on 22nd April. So now in 2020, it is 🎇the Golden anniversary🎊 of Earth Day. 

Our nature has its own way of restoring the balance between its every component. We, humans, consider ourselves superior to other components and try to rule over them😓. As a consequence, we are locked up inside our homes.

Fireflies

Don't you think fireflies are magical creatures? They can glow 🌟on their own. They don't need a battery 🔋or anything. Darkness is never an issue for them. This is called being self-dependent😎.

When I was a child, I used to think that if they can glow then it means that they are having any heat or 💡electricity source. And going near them will burn us😅. Now I know that this light is their signal for communication. So maybe as a child, I used to scare them and through light, they used to shout for help😁.

On some night outs at forest🌳🌲 or wild areas, you can see them in a group. They look happy and create a beautiful scene together😍. It appears as if some magic🎇 is going to happen soon. If you haven't lived this moment yet then please plan now. Maybe it will help you in igniting your light too.

Don't you think they sound similar to humans? The only difference is that we have lost our light💥 and faith in the power of unity👫. But what if we remove these differences. Life would be so magical. Even just thinking about this has ignited a small light inside us. So just imagine if we start working in this direction, then how our life would change😀😉. Stay Magical!

Hope

Hope is a desire for a particular thing to happen. It is like a ray of light in the dark night.  It is a sign of optimism😇. Having hope is like having a charged battery which will push you for a longer period towards your goals. This charged battery 🔋can result in either something constructive or something destructive.

Too much of anything is always bad. When you hope a lot of things then there is a 100% chance that you may fail and the result can push you away in a land of strange feelings😨.

Reflection

I was wondering about the types of reflection🌗 we see in our day-to-day lives. Then I found one beautiful example of reflection- children👧👦.

A child is a reflection of not only his parent's characteristics but a combination of characteristics of the whole 👪family. Characteristics include both physical and mental. Sometimes we see the reflection of people who are not related in blood with him but spend some quality time with him. I guess this is the reason why we usually use the word "innocent" for children.

I know you must be thinking that it is obvious for a child to have such reflections and so it is not a new thing. But it would become a new feeling if you see your reflection in him. Yeah..that's true..I saw my reflection in my sister's daughter and that too not only once or twice, but many times. She used to hide chocolates🍫 in the fridge in the same way as I used to do. In the autumn season, when leaves🍃🍃 start falling then some plants🌱 shed their seeds also. I used to collect them in my childhood as if they were going to convert into some gold seeds like we see in Disney movies. And then now I saw her collecting those seeds as if they were some kind of treasures. I can relate to how excited😊 she must be while collecting those seeds.

We never know where we will face our reflection and in which way. So I would like to suggest you that keep doing things whose reflection makes you feel 😇better and alive. Stay positive!

Unlocking Lockdown

Lockdown is the present need of the world. But some people call it house arrest and give it a total negative shade. Well it is negative  to some extent. Living full day inside our home 🏡 with a bunch of few people who we call a family👪 where everyone has a different frequency. One simple task will become debatable. It is not that we lack understanding, but it's like we don't want to understand each other anymore maybe because we have found some other people who understand us better but unluckily they are also trapped in their house arrest ⛓.

April 2020

I really feel good by using various journals. After using some good and ready made journals , I realized that I need a journal specially designed for my purpose.And the only one who can help me is me myself. So I decided to make my own journal. I will describe my personal journal-making process later on in this blog.

Fun things to do at Home

Sometimes we really want to stay at home and sleep for a decade. But when we get such an opportunity then this idea becomes quite boring and also it feels like a pure wastage of time. 

But here I have few ideas to make your stay at home quite productive and enjoyable :

• Declutter: ok I know many people don't like this, but for people like me it acts as a stress buster. It helps in decluttering not only physical things but also my mind.

Ways to celebrate international Day of happiness

Nowadays people are so mentally disturbed that they have lost their happiness so we really need to celebrate days like International Day of Happiness.

Right APPROACH towards solving your problems

Sometimes we get very confused. Either there are many options or no option. Either we have to start something fresh or just need a fresh start of something old. We spend days and days doing nothing. Then we start getting irritated on even small things. We even try asking for help from everyone and sometimes this makes things worst.

FEAR..

Fear is a feeling, in fact, a negative feeling. We feel it when we think something wrong is going to happen or when we are unsure of our future.

Importance of a Theme

Nowadays every convention has some theme. I was wondering why people use different themes every year. Then I did a little bit of digging. I found out that people use themes to increase their productivity. It shows the direction in which they have to work for a particular time period. It is basically a single step towards their goal.

The Road not Taken

This was the poem by Robert Frost.

It's a very lovely piece. I think the author was trying to tell how one decision can change your whole life and the maximum chances are that you can't change that decision after making it.

Life is just like these roads. We come to many crossroads just like decision-making time. Some are easy and some are difficult. Some are life-changing and some will not change anything. Some are time-bound and some are not bounded by time.

The author gave a description of two such roads. He wanted to travel on both just as sometimes we want both the options. But since we are single travelers and can walk on only one so we have to select one. 

So finally author selected the road less traveled, left the other road for some other day which may or may not come, and this has made all the difference in his life. It sounds so familiar. When we decide to select one option and leave the other one, then we regret sometimes and sometimes we rejoice. But it always has some consequences. 

This poem is all about that dilemma which we all face in our lifetime. It's a very popular poem and we can see the reason behind its popularity. It's quite relatable. It reminds us of that decision which was difficult to take and after taking its consequences was big. Or maybe some people will be on the verge of taking such decisions. All I wanted to say is that life is all about such crossroads which actually shape us to this present form. So take that decision carefully and in time. Only two types of results are possible. One would act as a blessing and the other as a lesson. So don't regret anything. Stay happy !!

Deal with PROCRASTINATION

Procrastinate means ( as in the dictionary) to be slow or late about doing things that should be done earlier. In my opinion, it is a deadly virus that spreads very fastly into your mind, and once you got infected your happy blood cells start decreasing at a very alarming rate. It can even lead you to miss many great opportunities. Such failures will ultimately make you depressed.

To begin with, you have to get ready or do preparations to ensure that you don't procrastinate further. If you want to go on a morning walk, you place all the required things like shoes, clothes, water, etc in one particular area preferably seen by you from your bed. So when you wake up you don't get late or cancel your walk just because of any silly reason like you got confused about what to wear. Preparation of physical things will ultimately lead to the preparation of your mind. Your mind will, indirectly, remind you if you forgot.

Classification of Thoughts

Our thoughts are of four types :

1. Necessary thoughts

2. Positive thoughts

3. Negative thoughts

4. Waste thoughts

Women's Day

People call it a women's Day to celebrate the independence and empowerment of women. But are women really independent and empowered ?? Does a woman need a man to tell her that she is independent??... There are many such questions...

Importance of GOAl in Life

Life without a goal means just breathing oxygen in and carbon dioxide out... Or like a black and white movie to which GOAL adds colors.
There is this special quote by Abraham Lincoln - " Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax. " In our case chopping down, trees means living and sharpening the ax means to increase your creativity for which you should have some kind of aim.