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Letting go

30 Sep 2015 Comments Off on Letting go

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Perspectives Tags: Journal, journal covers

Dear Fellow Journalers,

The following is a fictious story of a woman who was confronted with her old journals and what she did about them. It is entitled “Dear Diary, you’re history!”

” I clearly state that I am in my right mind (well, truth be told, I am not entirely sure about that fact) and have full knowledge of scissors and other violent tools. I have decided that I am going to toss out all my old journals. My claim is that, while murderous, it is the right thing to do. Once the words are written , they are impossible to deny. One journal named names and contains snippets of my story and others! There were secrets in one and a few lies in others. However, I absolutely loved the covers! I worked hard on them, collaging and mod podging until there was not a trace of the original boring cover underneath.

I have decided to re-read all the agonizing words before I send the journals to their fate. I am sure that this is a gigantic waste of time, but I did write in them and there might be some morsels I can keep for that novel I keep saying I am going to write. Some might say that I am taking all this a bit too far, but upon my death, those journals will reveal things about my life. Future generations shouldn’t have to know that my secret ambition was to meet George Clooney!

I did read a blog post about this very thing and began to wonder, do others keep their journals, scan them onto hard drives or toss them?? I don’t think that you should re-write them, because your feelings, experiences and relationships change over time. The situations that caused you anxiety may have been resolved and the outcome was different from what you envisioned. I date my entries and usually fill the entire page with my scribblings, so it is hard for me to re-write.

So, my question remains: what do you do with your old journals?? Write and let us know at uniquelyyourscraftjournal@outlook.com

‘Til next time,

~Sallie

Learn to love learning

23 Sep 2015 Comments Off on Learn to love learning

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Perspectives Tags: learning

Dear Fellow Journalers,

Here is another G classic. Enjoy!

~Sallie

Some say the greatest gift you can give anyone is learning. Certainly, learning is a great, great gift. To teach anyone something they didn’t know before is a very special thing, regardless of how significant or trivial it may be. You’ve enriched a human mind. You’ve given the gift of knowledge.

But I believe that there is an even greater gift—the gift of learning to love learning.

There is an old saying: Give a man a fish, you’ve fed him for a day—teach a man to fish and you’ve fed him for a lifetime. I believe the same is true about learning. Give someone the gift of loving learning and they can teach themselves anything they need to know for the rest of their lives.

Curiosity is the main factor in learning. It is the vehicle that drives us to the destination of learning. Some people have it naturally, but in most people it must be inspired, coaxed, nurtured and then developed. It is the main key to true, un-failing, and lasting learning. It is self motivated, rather than perpetuated by outside stimuli that are often not only temporary, but false. Contrary to popular belief, curiosity did not kill the cat, it is instead what gave it nine lives!

Learning made into a lifelong habit leads to not only a brighter mind, but also a more active mind. Research has shown that an active mind also leads to a healthier body. It has also been shown that it reduces incidents of depression. Perhaps most interestingly, it has also been shown to reduce incidents of Alzheimer’s.

Love to most people is a very special thing, with a very special meaning. Learning, and the love of it, SHOULD be given, and have, the same status.

I’VE SPOKEN, DO YOU LOVE LEARNING AS MUCH AS I DO?

You’ve won the prize!

16 Sep 2015 Comments Off on You’ve won the prize!

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Perspectives Tags: happy, time

The Magic Bank Account
Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest:

Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use.

However, this prize has rules:

1. Everything that you didn’t spend during each day would be taken away from you.

2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account.

3. You may only spend it.

4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day.

5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say,

“Game Over!”

and can close the account and you will not receive a new one.

What would you personally do?
You would buy anything and everything you wanted right?

Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for.

Even for people you don’t know, because you couldn’t possibly spend it all on yourself, right?

You would try to spend every penny, and use it all,

because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right?

ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL ….

Shocked ??? YES!

Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can’t seem to see it.

The PRIZE is *TIME*

1. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life.

2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is Not credited to us.

3. What we haven’t used up that day is forever lost.

4. Yesterday is forever gone.

5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time

WITHOUT WARNING …

SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?

Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars.

Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because

time races by so much quicker than you think.

So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life!

Here’s wishing you a wonderful and beautiful day. Start “spending”….

“DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLD…!”

SOME PEOPLE DON’T GET THE PRIVILEGE!

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To Sallie and uniquelyyourscraftjournal with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

You may reach Sallie at uniquelyyourscraftjournal@outlook.com

One reason why

09 Sep 2015 Comments Off on One reason why

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Perspectives Tags: John Gray, journaling, Quinn McDonald

Dear Fellow Journalers,

Quinn McDonald keeps journals. She wrote that “it doesn’t matter how you tackle your journaling. It always helps. It always heals. As long as you keep writing, your life will begin to make sense.

For a long time, before I started journaling, I would vent to my friends/family. A lot of times, they tried to help. Finally, after listening to a John Gray’s “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” tape, he wisely concluded that he didn’t need to give me an answer or fix my problems. I was just being a woman; I had to vent!

Journaing has a way about it, doesn’t it? The writing forces you to focus in on the one thing that matters now, in this moment. you write about your frustrations, your anger, your disappointments and suddenly in the midst of it you get the answer you were seeking all along. Even if you don’t, the process is cathartic. You pick up your life again and move on. Thoughts are clearer now. Writing does help.

~Sallie

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You may reach Sallie at uniquelyyourscraftjournal@outlook.com

Let Go

19 Aug 2015 Comments Off on Let Go

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Perspectives Tags: human being, let go

Dear Fellow Jounalers,

How many times in your life have you tried to control another person’s behavior or circumstance? How many times have you tried to untied the strings that bind you to those circumstances and then felt guilty when you picked up the “scissors”? The following ideas come from an article I read recently about what letting go really is. Please feel free to share.

~Sallie

To ‘let go’ does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To ‘let go’ is not to enable, but to allow one to learn from natural consequences.

To ‘let go’ is not to care for, but to care about.

To ‘let go’ is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To ‘let go’ is not to be protective, it’s to permit another to face reality.

To ‘let go’ is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.

To ‘let go’ is to fear less, and to love more.

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To Sallie and uniquelyyourscraftjournal with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

You may reach Sallie at uniquelyyourscraftjournal@outlook.com