Dailygreatness Yoga Journal: Your Masterplan For A Beautifully Conscious Life Perfect Paperback – 24 Jun. 2013

The Daily Greatness Yoga Journal begins with a warning:`Caution! If used every day, this journal could radically transform, profoundly shape and dynamically alter your destiny to motivate you to...build discipline, be more creative, live in the moment, perfect your yoga practice, create inner and outer strength, learn to breathe deeply through life's joys and challenges, consciously create your days, connect with your inner genius, live with more passion and purpose, create an inspiring vision for your life, take action and explore your potential, overcome limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns, uncover your blind spots and find solutions to your challenges, transform disempowering thoughts, words and actions into empowering ones, move from being the victim of your life to the powerful co-creator of your life.'How in the world, you may well ask, could a journal do all that?This is not the usual planner or day book, this journal is a tool that gently leads you, through the power of routine and repetition, to address your life from all angles. How does it do this? For every day, there is an entire page, populated with specific questions to help you address your gratitudes, your aspirations, your affirmations, your thought life, your actions and behaviour, and your yoga. There's a column where you can plan the events of the day, or you can use it for other things (I decide to use that spot as a food tracker) At the beginning of each week there is a place to set your projects, appointments, actions and yoga practice for the week, then on the last day of the week, there is a space to reflect on your accomplishments.If that were all that is offered, it would set this journal well above others on the market, but there is even more. At the beginning of the journal, you are given the chance to identify your past accomplishments, things you need to forgive/let go of (in yourself and others), your priorities, and your wildest dreams. You create a Purpose Statement and a Life Mission Statement and a `Conscious Life Blueprint'. And then throughout the year, you are cued in the journal to review these against your weeks, to help you steer your course.I saw this journal in Atlantis Books in London and thought it was amazing, but was taken aback by the price. Yes, it is more than you would pay for a blank book in the pound shop! But when I got home, after viewing the website and reading customer testimonials, I decided to order it.I decided to commit to using this journal in the spirit it was intended. I have been using this journal daily for five weeks. Since I started using this journal I have:*increased my yoga and meditation practice*decided to apply for a new job and leave my old one*written a business plan to move my home business from a hobby to a more a lucrative income source*noticed patterns of thinking that have been keeping me back*challenged myself to do something that I've put off for last 2 years - I did it!That is a lot in just five weeks! I am eager to see where using this journal to focus my mind, my heart and my efforts will take me. Each day's changes happen by such tiny increments, but then when you look back, you realise you have come very far. Every 90 days, the Daily Greatness Yoga Journal offers a 90-Day Review page spread. Who knows what I will have managed to accomplish by the first 90 day mark!I wholeheartedly recommend the Daily Greatness Yoga Journal. It is not just focused on yoga asana - like yoga itself, it is a whole life system.

I've practiced yoga regularly for almost 20 years and had been finding it difficult to motivate myself to practice daily as I pass through a life transition - retirement! This journal is really helpful in both motivating me to practice more than just asana but also to help me reflect on what I want to accomplish in the future and how I want to get there while living in the present moment at the same time. When I bought it, I wasn't sure if the format would be restrictive, so I also bought a little blank book as well (one of the recommendations in the Daily Greatness Yoga Journal). I've found that the two support each other - I start with the more formal practices of reflection in this journal, which usually prompts something to come up that I want to explore further. Combined with Judith Lasater's "A Year of Living Your Yoga," and Bruce Black's "Writing Yoga: A Guide to Keeping a Practice Journal," using the Daily Greatness Yoga Journal is a powerful tool for self-reflection. And it's beautifully designed and the paper is perfect for writing - the ink flows beautifully over the page. Highly recommended.

I bought the Dailygreatness journal as part of my mindfulness practice. I needed something to help me along on a daily basis, as I strive to adopt a more conscious lifestyle. I chose the Yoga Journal over the original one because I'm learning to dance, which I feel shares much affinity with yoga in mindset and physicality.It feels like a treat to put aside a small moment in the morning and before bed to bring my focus to the day, and therefore pay attention to myself. Personal transformation is sometimes necessarily solitary. The journal like a friend who sits with me and cheers me with gentle, uplifting words. I don't yet manage to exercise or meditate daily, but the journal gives me an incentive to roll out the yoga mat, spend at least a few minutes stretching my body, before filling out my day in the journal by answering concise and encouraging questions. I'm gradually feeling less resistance towards exercise and meditation and am more able to stay mindful during the day.I would recommend the Dailygreatness Journals to anyone with aspirations to live a more peaceful life.

I got this journal as a way to help me streamline and focus my thoughts about 'me' and the direction I was going in as I found that in the past, I had been too focused on writing 'things to do' each day, which didn't really address thoughts, dreams and hopes that I have or any future long-term goals.Whilst I'm still early on in the process (hence 4 stars and not yet 5) after 10 days, I have already started to get a feel for how it sub-consciously works its magic. The act of committing something to writing encourages you to walk your talk (well, at least that's what I've found so far).In addition, being able to focus on motivations and positive 'I am...' statements is an absolute boon in order to get away from the constant critical inner voice that often drives the show.The design of the journal is simple yet elegant and it also incorporates a daily schedule, so you could use it in place of your regular diary if you wished.

As a Wellness Coach and a Trainer of Wellness Coaches I know the power of keeping a daily journal and the magic of daily spiritual practice. I regularly invite people to do both because they are two of the most effective ways of developing personally and spiritually.Daily Greatness brings yoga and journaling together in a Yoga Journal that is a very beautiful, high quality, easy to use addition to the day of anyone who wants to radically and rapidly make significant changes in life.This book will help you reflect, clarify your vision and mission, set goals, stay on track and evaluate your progress. As soon as I saw a copy I bought one, so should you. Now when I invite people to journal, I will also recommend Daily Greatness.

Love it .. just wish it was A4 in size