Creative Journaling for Beginners | Classic Vertical Happy Planner | Tips and Ideas + After The Pen
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- Today I talk all about creative journaling in my classic vertical Happy Planner. I give you suggestions on what to write, how to format things and where to start!
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I started mine today! One of my quotes is, "What is laid on the paper stays on the paper!" Because I am trying to be less critical of myself. I peel up way too many stickers in my other planners. This is a place I will learn to embrace my imperfections.
Your daughter must be really intelligent. Vet school is more competitive and more difficult than med school.You must be so proud. Congratulations!!!
I’m so proud 🥰
This was such a wonderful video to watch. Today is my moms second heavenly birthday and I have been lost. Got up early And I wish that I had just stayed in bed. I did pause a couple times when bumble was barking because I thought that there was a loose dog around here. LOL and I went around looking outside for the dog. Thank you so much for helping me through one of the hardest days.
Peggy, I am so sorry you are having such a tough day. Give yourself the grace and time to heal. I can't say that it gets "better", but I've found that over time it's ME that has gotten better at handling it. I have faith that you will too. Sending lots of care and thoughts your way. Good luck finding the dog. ;-)
So sorry for your struggles Peggy. It’s so hard to lose the people we love.
Peggy
I'm sorry you're having a hard day as well. My mom went home to be with the Lord on January 7th 1995. It still stings but I try to live my days serving and doing for others and making her proud. Your mom is incredibly proud of you. Pour yourself into your journals and let the creativity flow. Blessings from North Carolina
This video was one of the top 5!!! More like this please!!
I agree. I watched like 5 times
One of my top 5 too Mary Ellen! Please post more! I am not a to do list planner, but decorative journal planner! Love!
I am so grateful for you and appreciate all you share! I needed this breakdown on how to do this.
You are incredible, creative and so authentic. I love your tips and tricks. I also love your sense of humor. You are the best.
I think it's DELIGHTFUL that you talk to yourself -- I do too!
I bought a classic vertical planner at the beginning of this year for work (it was my first HP). After a few months, I bought a dashboard planner and discovered the dashboard works better for me at work; but, I wanted to use my classic vertical for journaling. I'm so grateful that you posted this video with spreads and ideas. Thank you!!
I am waiting for my first Happy Planner order and so glad I found your channel. Thank for all the ideas and inspiration.
As always, Mary Ellen, it's your genuine spirit that makes your videos so good to watch... no toxic positivity, no 'super mom' bs... you are you with all your lovely traits and foibles and when you share that authenticity, you inspire others.
That’s such a nice comment. Thank you!
I love seeing how you write in your planner, especially journaling. I think I would use my journal more in this way instead of keeping track of appointments.
Thank you for all you do for us. You brighten my day! I truly look forward to each video you bring us. 💙
Congratulations on your daughter’s graduation. What an accomplishment! I found this video inspirational. I’ve started to journal a bit in my planner but this has given me the push to expand how I’m journaling. Thank you!👍🌻
My late husband died from diabetes and he lost his leg. It was very hard and awful. You are right! Everyone should be grateful for limbs
Vet school? As in Veterinarian? So fantastic! It’s so hard just to get in, let alone make it through. Congrats to both of you! My funniest ever gratitude item? After being behind on laundry, “A full underwear drawer!” Gotta appreciate life’s simple pleasures!
Preach!....I never own less than 15 pair of underwear....or pairs of socks. Full underwear drawers are important ! 😁.
I really love how you’re using this for creative journaling. I’d love to do this too but I’ve always felt like I never have the time for journaling
Love your comment about not taking things for granted because no one knows what might happen. So true. I lost my leg in a car wreck 8 years ago. Never would have imagined this would be my life, having to relearn to walk with a prosthetic and figure out everything in life. Being grateful for having both arms and legs is wonderful and doesn't sound silly at all 💜 love this spread BTW!
So sorry for your struggles. That’s exactly what I mean. You never know what life will throw at you. Be grateful you have that other leg, and that you can still walk.
This was a great video for me today. I love your videos!!! Thanks for putting yourself out there.
Thank you for this... I’m inspired to do my journal section of my Franken differently now. I have a horizontal journaling planner for it, but I’ve been bored and not felt motivated with that section lately. It was just lines of writing, which although it was good journal-wise, It’s too blah. I think I’m not going to run out and buy a new planner for it, but I am going to decorate, doodle and jazz it up. Writing is not the problem, I’m kinda good at that. I think I just needed the inspiration to make it more creative and “funner”. Mary Ellen, you are definitely my fave planner on CZcams. You are real, and I love your style. You always have great color and balance in your layouts. Most of all, you’re just willing to be open and share your planning and how it intertwines with your real life. So thank you!
I really appreciate this video! I’m an over thinker and hearing you talk and explain as you’re doing it helps me!
So inspirational! Really has me itching to start a journal. And the spread you didn’t like? I loved it!!! I love how you do different fonts and utilize a variety of pens💗
This is a great video. Very real talk, which is awesome. You were one of my first planners that I ever watched!!! Great job!!!
Each year I tend to do my journaling a bit different. Thanks for all the ideas.
Oddly, this helped me get out of bed today. Thank you.
That made me feel great! I’m so glad. Thanks for commenting!
You're seriously a life coach through your planning videos! I love watching your videos for inspiration in both my planner and my life. You break it all down so simply and gracefully. I never thought to have a gratitude area and definitely need to do that so I can recognize to be grateful for the little things that is often taken for granted. Thank you
I love this!!! I loved the "get a good cart!" There is nothing like a good cart! Gratitude is so grounding and rewarding.
So found this at the right time!! I am diving in for the new year and was clueless up until now! Thank You!! Hope you are hanging in there.
I love this video I’ve watched it twice to remind myself to not stress out thank you!
Thanks so much for this. I understand now why I like watching your videos so much. Out of all Happy Planner CZcamsrs I always seem to just have to come back and rewatch your videos. Did I see you have a lot of anxiety. I do too. Did I catch that you have ADD? I have ADHD. It's funny I always felt like your way speaks easier to me or like I can follow your instruction easier. I hope this makes sense. Just love that you put out this video. I started a journal planner last week and I thought it wasn't going well because I couldn't find time to fill it in every day. I wanted to do this exact thing you showed. You have no idea, it's like you answered every question I had. ❤❤❤ thank you!
So thankful that it helped you! Yep. Anxiety and ADD girl here 🙌🏻
I absolutely love the color choices for each week. Beautiful.
You sneezed and I said "Bless you". If that doesn't show that I feel a connection with you, I dunno what does. LOL You are so dang relateable, I found myself saying "agreed!" every time you emphasized that it doesn't have to be perfect. I'm a perfectionist too and I hate it. One thing I found that works is making a deal with myself - My adult side gets to stress over the "correctness" of my planner as long as I can unleash my inner child to play with colors, doodles, stickers and "un-perfectness" in my journal. I know it sounds weird but it works wonders for me. I love so much that you've been sharing your journaling processes and tips/ideas with us. It is one thing that I am very grateful for. Please always be your truly wonderful and beautifully human self with us - mistakes and all. Your family and friends are so lucky to have you :)
Thank you Kenzie, you always leave such wonderful comments and I appreciate you.
LOVE IT! IVE BEEN AWAY FROM MY PLANNER SYSTEM AND MY GRATITUDE JOURNAL! SO IM VERY RUSTY LOL ITS SORTA LIKE IVE FORGOTTEN WHETE AND HOW TO START THE PROCESS AGAIN.
HENCE--THIS BEING SO EXTREMELY HELPFUL!! LOVE THESE! MY PREFERABLE AESTHETIC IS SIMILAR TO YOURS, SO I REALLY LOVE SEEING HOW YOU ACHIEVE THAT !! TFS
Thank you for sharing! I know it can be so vulnerable to share these things, but so many of us appreciate your guidance and your ability to be empathetic and authentic so much
I'm SO GLAD you did this video. I started my creative journal this month all because of your journal. I'm loving the process so much but your "how to" and "what you can do" suggestions where GREAT!
I want to Thank You for this Happy Planner video. I have several planners for different reasons, however I absolutely loved this particular video. I’m going to start one for 2023. Great Job. This video made me personally feel so happy for some reason so Thank you again & Have a Very Happy Holiday.
You are my favorite planner Mary Ellen. I love your honesty. I love watching you plan. Thank you!!
Your video has come at the right time for me. I have been doubting how I use my planner and if I wanted to continue using it. Your creative journaling has inspired me! For some reason this has just clicked for me. Thank You Mary Ellen.
Thank you. I was stumped on how to start my planner and what to write. This was extremely helpful for me.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I have been wanting to do this but even after decorating I feel like I don’t have enough happening to actually fill the space. This is giving me ideas and motivation! I sincerely appreciate all the time and effort you put into sharing all of your ideas and creativity. Thank you so much!!!
You are so talented 💛💛 Please do more videos like this!!! Such an awesome video. Would love to see more creative journaling videos from you!!!!
I am a total newbie to planning....I love this idea....I'm running to buy a second happy planner now. Thank you!!!
Thank you so much for this!!! I’ve been wanting to journal and these are great ideas!!!❤️
I absolutely love this Mary Ellen! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity and tips with us! Practicing gratitude is so important to our mental and emotional health. I definitely think it’s good to be appreciative of our basic needs being met, like having clean water and a warm bed, because so many people don’t have those things.
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I love this idea! I have a journal that I have put stickers in and then I label something at the top, like a theme then bullet journal what I'm thinking or feeling! Idk why but I haven't done anything with it for maybe 2 or so years! I also have blank happy planners that I need to use!!! If I don't then it's a waste of money... Right!!! I can always change the dates and year 😉 to get me goin again!!! Ty for bunches for this idea! I always love your videos and what you do with your planner's ♥️🤗♥️
Thanks for sharing your journal and your unique technique. I especially appreciate the gratitude list.
Omg your journal is beautiful and so creative. I wish I had your talent!
Keep telling us it doesn’t have to be perfect 😍
I enjoyed your video very much. Please keep making videos when you feel inspired.
I've been using my planner this way. Kind of a mashup of things really. I love your tips.
I have one happy planner and I do this mainly. I do incorporate my appointments and to-do lists into my spreads though ☺️
Oh, this is so perfect for me! ❤️ Thank you for sharing your process! Sometimes I don't feel like writing a lot, but then I have days that I need to write a ton and I'm running out of space for that day.. 🤣 And don't know how to do it - to write everything down and to fit in 🙈
Thanks for showing how to fill in after stickers!!
I love your journal and I love your style. So many good ideas. Thank you.
A great video to give me ideas on how to start my happy planner.
Thanks so much for these ideas. I'm struggling with planning I guess bc there's not too much going on in my life to 'plan" . I'm so invested in this stuff that I needed this bc I love to write. So my planner will now become my journa. l. This is what I needed.
I know u made this a long time ago but I’m thinking about starting a journal and so I’ve started watching your videos and this one was sooo helpful! Thanks for all u do 😁
Thank you for sharing!! I need to jump in and stop being anxious about my writing! 🥺😏😊
Thank you for publishing every day. I look forward to your posts.
Wow! Super informative video and so neat watching you fill it in. I'm waiting on my first Happy Planner to arrive and now I feel confident on what I will be putting in it after watching your video. Thanks.
Listening to you...watching...as I work in my planner...great list of prompts for writing...thank you!
❤️ love this video!! Saving it and rewatching it for ideas. I have a Faith classic planner that I have stopped writing in it, so I’m going to repurpose it and start journaling instead of buying another planner. Thanks Mary Ellen!
Love this video, even though I'm late to the game. You are so helpful and creative! I enjoy following you! Thank you for sharing.
this was really helpful! definitely trying this out, your right about staring at a blank page and not know how to start, thanks for the tips!
I really want to add journaling into my planner. I don't think I need another planner for it *yet* but am trying to figure out how to incorporate both in one right now. Thanks for the video!
You are great and such an inspiration!! I keep thinking I’m too old to do this planning stuff, I’m 67, and it seems so silly for someone my age to do this! But I still want to document the things I’m doing and places my husband and I are going. I want a record to look back on in case I lose my memory, you know!!
Never silly!
Definitely never silly!
Love this! I really have a hard time being "free" enough to do something like this. I am a perfectionist and I am an over thinker. I am finally using lines in my catch all thanks to you. You are helping me so much!
Hello and thank you for this video! I just bought my classic Happy Planner this past weekend and really enjoyed watching this. I love that you are very meticulous…very important for newbies 🤣. Hitting the subscribe button now!❤️ looking forward to watching the rest of your videos!
I really love. I keep a Memory Journal, to do journal and lastly me diary journal. I would like to put all in one journal. Where do you get all your really cool stickers? Can you draw? I can’t for the life of me draw. I shake a lot when I feel overwhelmed by wanting to draw. You really are creative. Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely LOVE how your completed spreads look and the variety of styles you use with your writing! #goals ❤️ Now I’m considering switching to a vertical layout from the horizontal I’m currently using...
Love these ideas! This what I’ve been looking for. Thank you so much. Your spreads are so pretty too. 💕
Your journal is beautiful! I’m gonna use mine as a journal
I’ve watched this so many times and I’ve shared it with others. So inspirational! I’m following your lead and creating my own. More like this please!
I see you started working on your sticker book. I hope you are going to make boxes for BIG planners! I like this video, thanks for the inspiration.
Love everything about this video....and "The Sinner" season 1 is sooooooo good!!!
Also, as a parent of a son with ADHD, who worries daily about him, you give me lots of hope for him seeing you so successful.
Yes! You learn to live with it and manage it. I am also medicated but I have not always been. It’s very easily managed with the right tools. And there are good things about it like creativity, diving deep or hyper focusing on things and learning, etc. good luck to you and your son!
Your are so creative...I'm just starting out. Blessings on your journey!
I absolutely love this video. It feels more in depth and finally was able to design a spread with meaning. Thank you
Super helpful - makes this seem less intimidating - thank you!
Thank you for sharing. I love this idea. I Franken plan in a classic size vertical and wellness weeklys. So trying not to be redundant, your ideas fit the bill. Thank you for the encouragement. Your spreads are quite unique, beautiful and colorful. Reminds me of the letters we wrote with my pen pals in high school.
Thank you for this! I’ve been struggling lately and this video helped me more than I realized it would. I will definitely be utilizing your tips and tricks! So glad you decided to post this! ✨
This is great! Fantastically creative and a great use of stickers! Love it!
Your journal spreads are so gorgeous - the perfect mix of decoration and content! I’ve not been using my HP much lately and am totally inspired to start memory keeping now!
Loves the video. Wish you would do more of this type! How to decorate for journoling, Love to see different ideas. ♥️♥️
I loved this video! I’m working on ways to journal better! Basically to stick to it!
Thank You for sharing this with us, all of the tips you’ve given are really helpful 😀
It’s not silly at all what you put on your Grateful list, I was thanking 🙏🏽 the Lord for those very things, we take so many things for granted! yet we have so much compared to others in other countries.
Loooveee every page!! You are so talented 👏🏻👍🏻
I really loved this video!!!! I needed it!!! Thank you MAry Ellen!! 🦋
Thank you so much for this! I have a vertical I’m not using, I don’t generally like box stickers, and I have too many pens. What a great way to use and not sit on...all of them! You are so generous with your knowledge and expertise! 🤗
We love The Sinner. Season 1 is our fav - so good.
I love this!!! I watch all of your videos and this is BY FAR my favorite!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Great video! I use my Happy Planner creatively for my Bible studies. I love the verticle layout too.
I'm saving this video in my planner playlist! I have been struggling trying to start journaling. But you really pointed the way and gave me many ideas and different directions to take my journal! Thank you!
Love this video a lot. I need more pens and different color and different sizes. Thanks so much🙏🇨🇦
I loved this video!!! I really needed this! keep them coming please!!!!🤞🏻
Like your ideas! Just started a mood tracker HP but would like to jaz it up. And use the monthly calendar to doodle!!
I love this so much! I'm literally obsessed! Thank you so much for being brave enough to share it with us. I can't wait to try. I recently wrote a bunch in a journal and then hit a huge wall. I'm going to try this and see what comes together.
i love these creative journal flip throughs and PWMs! I love seeing how you fill them in 🌼🥰❤️🌙
Thanks so much for sharing! I’ve been admiring what you share of your creative journal and been wanting to start my own. Got one from the spring release and hope to start in July!
I love watching your videos Ms. Mary Ellen coz you always give us brilliant and creative ideas, and at times, how to trouble-shoot things ☺️ Just got my own Happy Planner yesterday, and tried to do some spreads... it's quite tough 😅 So, my appreciation for what you're doing has definitely leveled up! Thank you very much & TC always! 🥰
I really enjoyed this happy journal video Mary Ellen 🙏🏾 Thank you.
I'm also a passionate journaler and it definetely helps me to get my thoughts and feelings away on paper.
This is so helpful as usual!!! I love learning from the best!