My Yearly Ritual + Giveaway!

I'm SO excited to talk to you today about something that has been absolutely instrumental in changing my life by giving me direction, inspiration and has helped me grow my self-esteem and my personal empowerment. It has also been partially responsible for The Empowered Way.

I have talked to a very few close friends about this before- but this is basically the first time I am sharing this "secret ritual" with the world.

For the past two years, I have started the new year by using this guidebook planner from Leonie Dawson. I hate the word "planner" because it sounds so dull and BORINGGGG. This is more than just your run of the mill "planner". I like to refer to it as more of a "life workbook".

The workbooks that changed my life. 2011 and 2012.

As you are lovingly taken on a journey through the pages of this book, you will first be asked to reflect on your past year- what you learned, what dreams came true, how you have changed, what you let go of, what you discovered about yourself, what you are grateful for, etc.

The Completion Circle Ceremony

For the remainder of the book, you will be gently and mindfully lead on what you want to accomplish this year, yes. But much much more.

In this book, you delve into yourself. You will be asked to think about things that you normally don't give attention to. You will be asked to write out:
- 100 Things I Want To Do This Year
- Lists of things to do "When Everything Sucks"
- Affirmations to yourself
- "Ten Things I want to celebrate about myself"
- A pie chart of "How I currently spend my time vs. how I want to spend it in the new year"
- A diagram of "How my body feels now vs. how I want it to feel in the new year"

And so, so much more.
The whole book is filled out by YOU. Leonie will ask questions that will make you think and plan and dream. This is not a "self-help" book in the sense that someone else is telling you how your life should be. This is a "self-help" book in the sense that YOU become empowered to help yourself! The answers you are looking for are waiting inside of you. You just need to think about the right questions to bring them out.

Here is one of my most loved pages from the 2011 planner. It really helped me out a couple times that year. I was very interested in Sikhism that year... no turban jokes, please! :D

This pack also comes with a desk calendar. This is my first year using it and I am really LOVING it so far.




All of these pages were hand water colored and illustrated by Leonie herself. You can literally feel her love and inspiration coming through the pages of the book and being transferred straight to you.

Here she is talking about the guidebooks, you can get a sense of her passion and her personality. The books are a mirror of this love and wisdom as well.




I view this book as a very sacred thing in my life. I keep it in my "sanctuary" room, hidden away. This is the first time I've ever shown a page to anyone- including my husband. I only choose to work on it when I feel in the right mood. I dedicate the first weekend of the new year to working on the pages reflecting on the previous year, then I do the rest of the pages. Sometimes I do them out of order or I just skip some all together.

I have seen ~*MaGiC*~ happen in my life after writing in these pages.
Her book has done so much good in my life, I feel like I HAVE to share it with the world! There is just something so powerful about sitting down and thinking out your year, then writing it all out.

This year, she is making 2 types of these books. One is for personal life and the other is for business entrepreneurs.


If you are seriously interested in changing your life this year, I would highly recommend making the tiny investment in these books. You can click the link to buy on my sidebar to the right, or click here to buy the book and have it in 10 seconds. All you need is to print it off and you are on your way to what will undoubtedly be the most transformative and empowering year of your life!

~ I AM DOING A GIVEAWAY ~

My 2013 planner, hot off the presses!

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