October 2017 Monthly Favorites
6:00:00 AM
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.
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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