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3RD WEEK OF SEPTEMBER
THROUGH OUT THE SECOND WEEK I HAVE

  1. Been reading nice books.
  2. Done a lot of introspection and meditation.
  3. Watched YouTube videos of my favourite youtubers.
  4. Been reading through the book of John.
  5. Annotating my Bible during my Bible Study.
  6. Been the house cleaner since I am the only one still on vacation.
  7. Been sleeping well and gotten into a nice routine.
  8. Been taking and editing photos; used some for the featured image in my post. It was a fast week, I don’t feel like I did much (apart from shopping for work space supplies) and at some point it got real rough both emotionally and intellectually.
  9. P. S I’m so happy to tell you I took and edited the featured image for this post and it’s a picture of my Sticky notes from my last shopping.

SIDE NOTE:
The purple Journal apologizes for not uploading a post on Saturday, it was a very spontaneous day planned by my Aunt. I don’t usually post on Sundays and Sunday was also a rough day for me.
But the new week is here, it’s Monday and we are all anticipating a growth filled week.
The Purple Journal now invites you to join this week’s special, “Journaling Week!!! “


CLEAN UP AND WRITE

16 September 2019
Welcome to the third week of September. I have done my brainstorming for my goals this week. This evening I will be organizing them and I hope you’re doing the same.
I won’t say the first week was better than the second week. But the second week sure was spontaneous.
The best part of last week was that I got to move to my Aunt’s place for that week. Since the kids were going to school, I was left at home. I got into the habit of cleaning up the house before I start any study or plan for the day. It’s a bit stunning that I adopted the habit real fast.
Before I would just clean my work space and get on with the day but I have experienced the fulfilment that comes from actually cleaning up the whole house.

I know some persons might be too busy to actually clean up the whole house, or the house might be too big. You can actually just arrange the items around so your surrounding so it looks organized.
Here are a few emotions that can stream from just being in an environment tided up by you:

PRODUCTIVITY AND CONTROL:
I believe an organised environment does carry the aura of control and productivity. It puts you in a certain mood that makes you want to do more around that environment. Also, you might feel like you have your work under control, especially when you were able to clean up your mess and other people’s mess yourself.

FULFILMENT
We can all agree that there were days when after a nice clean up we felt like we had conquered the day.
If cleaning up was actually part of your to-do list, doing that task will make you feel one step into the day and one step out of the to-do list.

CONFIDENCE:
Yes, a nicely arranged surrounding makes me feel confident and modern. There is this aura of confidence I carry whenever I walk around the house knowing that it’s clean and ARRANGED.

FRESHNESS
Arranging your work space and surrounding can also make an old area look fresher. It makes the beauty stand out. In all, cleaning up and arranging is just a dose of energy and positivity.

Here is a fast tip from Marie Kondo, the author of life-changing magic of tidying up:
Keep things around you that you actually want to be around you. This is a minimalist’s guide but this also applies to all areas of life.
Marie Kondo talks about only keeping or bringing in the physical things that sparks joy in you. this is an intentional act and does make sense if you think about it.

JOURNALS AND PEOPLE
Like I mentioned earlier, this week is a journaling special, that means I will be spending my time on journaling. Since “Journaling” is not an actual word, we journal users describes journaling as the act and art of writing in a journal. It can be like a diary entry or by using a journal prompt. The best part of journaling is that it is intentional.

Using and writing in Journals have proven to be a good form of therapy for me and I am inviting you to try it out… If you already do, please check out my prompt source mentioned below .
I already scheduled October as a month of using Journal prompts. I made a decision to start my journaling exercise last week. Aileen, one of my favorite YouTuber is starting an online journaling course. She is the creator of the Lanvendaire Lifestyle contents that I once shared here on this blog.
Because this course is free, I decided to seize the opportunity and start my Journaling exercise now, instead of waiting till October.

Aileen’s Journaling series will be live on IG TV every Saturday at 09 PT for the next six weeks and she will also be sending emails with the journaling prompts you can try out.

You can sign up for the emails with the link below;
Lanvendaire.com/lavinotebooks

I already signed up and you can join me (as I join Aileen)

Xoxo
From The Purple Journal.

P. S Please leave a comment if you found this post useful, we are trying to build an online community.

This is not a sponsored post. Just a mere recommendation.

In her September Thoughts

11venth September

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COMMUNITY

11 September 2019

We can’t deny how beautiful solitude can be. The fact that we get more done when there is no one around our workspace is inviting. Not to mention the hidden dance moves we get to share with only ourselves, but nothing was ever established in solitude.
Things can be created in solitude but nothing was ever truly established in solitude.

Establishment itself is a pillar made of people.

Because we force ourselves to process all the success stories we see everywhere (even when in the bathroom you know someone thousand miles away that’s launching a yacht while all you’d be launching is a toilet sit) we feel rushed. We feel the world is running forward and we are the only ones sitting behind. These unrealistic expectation cause us to focus on the unrealistic instead of what is close to us. We quickly forget the joy of a community.

I believe the people you keep around you makes up your community. A community have always been known to be an unsophisticated, ordinary, small clan.
The truth is that we are not so extraordinary that means some of us still live in this ordinary small clan. Yet the type of persons we keep around us determine how long we’ll stay in the ordinary.

A community helps you grow, they slowly journey towards improvement.
In the reality the thing people call extraordinary is just long moments of perseverance. Those mediocre, ordinary days with little unseen improvement makes up the big extraordinary reality.

In this process we forget to put ourselves out there even with our inadequacies and imperfections.
It’s a water me, I water you movement. The clouds never rush.
These people you are able to laugh with in the hard days, these people that listen to all your complains about life, the ones you call for help, the ones that make you crack a rip and even cry, the ones that challenge you, inspire you, motivate you and even forces you to improve… They are the underestimated growth factors.

There should be moments of talking to people, there should be moments of giving the little you have.
Go out and do the simple you can. A community is made up of ordinary people doing the little ordinary things they can. What happens when you add together so much little things? They grow to make something bigger….

In a community when you’re weak, they might be stronger than you… And when they are weak, you see your strength and abilities come alive.
Wouldn’t it be fulfilling to be able to help someone break down. In the times of human pains, there are thousands of words ready to be said. The mouth wants to be free and the heart also wants to be free. The eyes wants to express and every part of the body is itching to release.
Wouldn’t it be nice to help. To say the words the person in pain just couldn’t say. Won’t it be kind to help them speak while they help themselve cry and feel.
A sense of belonging. A sense of support. A sense of community.
A simple way to meet a complicated human need.

Today has been a day of reflecting on my past emotions… And it’s been relieving. I don’t feel like saying much today but it’s still a challenge and I took it.

P. S Today’s blog featured image was taken with my mobile phone and edited by me and I feel accomplished. It’s a wonder where this feeling came from.