ROMANELLE: November 2017

A Little Bit of Miyajima

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October 2017 Monthly Favorites

I’m behind my normal blogging post, but I’m catching the wagon. Let me share with you my four favorites, a book, an app, an organizational tool and an internet find. Let’s get started.

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

This book belongs to my re-readable book list - list of books that I’ll read again for reference and inspiration. If you wanted to awaken your creativity, this book is a must read. The instant #1 New York Times Bestseller discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the “strange jewels” that are hidden within each of us. Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work, embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.

I do love to read books in google play because I can always read the first pages or chapter for free and see if it is something I would love to finish. Big Magic is one of the books I purchased even before finishing the free chapter. You can tell, I really love this book. Big Magic inspired me to call myself an artist (because I never felt entitled to be called as one) and to find joy in creating. You can check the link below for the free sample of the book through Google Play.

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Elizabeth_Gilbert_Big_Magic?id=IVMmBgAAQBAJ&hl=en

The subscribers of my blog get an exclusive excerpt from the book. I find it inspirational, especially for creatives who feel like giving up. If you haven’t subscribed yet, clink the link to subscribe now.

link: http://eepurl.com/brS6Cb

Health App & Activity App

One of the habits I’m trying to build for myself is to keep an active lifestyle. Since I became a mom, I stayed indoors most of the time and live a pretty solid sedentary life. Our bodies are designed to move. Studies have shown that people who take fewer than 5,000 steps are considered sedentary or inactive. Between 5,000 to 7,499 steps daily have a low active lifestyle. 7,500 to 9,999 are somewhat active and those who reached 10,000 steps are the active ones. That’s why I love the Health Apps, particularly the Activity App, because it helps me know my numbers, keep track of my movements and eventually reached my health goals.

The Activity App has 3 activity rings which represent your activity goals - moves, exercise and stand goals, that you must close daily by reaching the set goals of steps, minutes of exercise and a number of times to stand in a day. This will ensure that you are living an active life. I’ve been using it for 3 weeks now and I haven’t closed all the rings/goals yet. But hey, I checked online and even active people are having trouble closing the rings as well. The good thing is, this encouraged me to be more active and to be constantly be reminded to move.

This App works with Apple Watch and I can say that the Apple Watch is totally worth it because of this App.

Kikki K Planner

I’ve been eyeing a Kikki K Planner for over a year or two, but I never make it to the website’s Buy button because of the price. But my good husband finally ~~bought~~ gifted this to me when he went to Singapore a few months back! It’s a Pale Pink Leather Personal Planner in size Large that includes an 18-month perpetual calendar and 7 tab sections that can be customized. You can check the link below for details.

I’m a planner person, I’ve been using a planner since grade school (I have a diary and a schedule taped on our wall) and it helped me a lot to stay on top of everything. What I like about the Kikki K planner is its ring bound so you can add pages if you need to and scrap pages that you don’t need. You can customize the tabs by adding separate tabs for Finances, Goals, Projects and others. It’s like having a planner, notebook, to-do list all in one place. Of course, it’s worth mentioning that its gorgeous tool for planning.

On the downside, I find it pricey. However, since this is refillable, you can use it not just for one year, but maybe a lifetime, so taking price per years of use, suppose you will use it for more than a year, makes the price reasonable. The other downside to some could be the size, the Large size is definitely not travel friendly. To me, it’s not really a problem because I don’t bring my planner when I’m out and about. I used it when I’m brain dumping (the process from David Allen’s Getting Things Done method), planning and updating my goals.

A little disclaimer, by no means I’m encouraging anyone to splurge on a planner. I’m even telling you now that you don’t need a planner if you don’t use one. You can go with whatever works for you. But if you are a planner person like me, don’t shy away from quality things that will make you do what you love to do. We ought to find joy in things that matters to us. To me, writing things down is an everyday chore, planning is vital and having my perfect planner gives joy to what may seem to be a daunting task.

https://www.kikki-k.com/leather-personal-planner-large-pink

Reviews.com

Whenever I want to buy something, I spent hours researching the internet. So when I came across www.reviews.com , I’m totally hooked. The site gives a thorough research, consulted experts and has elaborate reviews. If you are someone like me who tend to go for well-thought purchase by checking a lot of information, go ahead and check their site. Since winter is coming, I’m thinking of updating my skincare routine, so I’m checking on their face moisturizers review https://www.reviews.com/face-moisturizer/

That’s about it for this month. We’re down to last two months of the year, but I still have a lot to share with you. Thank you for visiting my blog. Keep coming and I’ll see you in my next post!

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