Start Before You're Ready

A bold motivational journal for anyone seeking to boost their productivity Whether you're embarking on a new project or planning your future, understanding what makes you tick is the crucial first step in making things happen. Do It For Yourself combines the pop-art-inspired graphics of Subliming with 75 thought-provoking prompts by creativity and productivity expert Kara Cutruzzula. Choose any goal and work through the five stages of the journal-getting going, building momentum, overcoming setbacks, following through, and seeking closure-or just open it to the phase you're in now. Each exercise is designed to help reorient your outlook, overcome roadblocks, and encourage mindfulness, with powerful typographic quotes to inspire you along the way. In these pages, find the much-needed space to focus your energy, clear up mental clutter, and set yourself up for success. Because isn't it time you did it for yourself?

A guided encouragement journal for anyone in search of creative motivation——why start tomorrow when you can start today? Do It Today is a guided encouragement journal for anyone in search of creative motivation. This is a journal for people who make things (or want to). People who have dreams (or want to find some). People who are seeking motivation in their daily lives (or want to shake up their routines and discover something new). We want to live fuller lives. We want to feel alive and as though we're spending our time on the people, commitments, tasks, and work that matter most to us. Now is a crucial time for this message of reinvention and possibility. Call it motivation, inspiration, encouragement, or a gentle kick in the pants, but with its mix of storytelling and service, Do It Today will act as an urgent reminder that new possibilities are open for everyone-and together we can map out a way to find them. Do It Today is a generous, empathetic, and accessible guide combining short essays, prompts, and open-ended questions that will inspire action, and is inventively designed to give the reader space to dream and plan. You will read, feel motivated, then put down this book and move. Why start tomorrow when you can start today?