darren r hill

the creative minimalist

Category: Journals

All posts where I look at or talk about my journals

  • My current journal set-up

    My current journal set-up

    my current journal set-up 2025 text over desk with journals

    Hello worlds! As we kick off the New Year of 2025, I thought it would be fun to share my journal collection with you all. I’ve got my brand-new daily planner, music and fiction journals, and a bunch of vocab books. This week’s vlog shares my current journal set-up. What are your favourite journals?

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  • My July Journal Set-up

    A quick look at my July journal set-up. I have my bullet journal in my Traveller’s Notebook and my blog journal in another. In addition, I have my music and art journals. I also have another little journal that I am pondering its use.

    Darren and Dianne Discuss: here’s the most recent video when this video was made:

    https://youtu.be/qSIEx1sxkHc

  • Choosing my journals for the Pilgrimage

    April update on what journals I am currently using as I continue my pilgrimage. It seems I might be heading straight back to where it all began, but I’ll let you watch and find out.

  • Hope in myself

    hope - believe in myself art journal page

    This week I have had the word ‘hope’ above my desk. It is my creative prompt for the week. The creativity has been a bit scarce, so I’m not certain if it has helped.

    However, I did open the journal and write and doodle and think around ‘hope’. It was, as always, an interesting time, exploring an idea and concept in the journal. The ability to step back and think about things is the reason I journal. And the blank page is the ideal place to just explore and see where an idea or thought will take me.

    hope - believe in myself art journal page

    Today I ended up realising that my biggest hope at the moment should be to believe in myself. I should believe in my abilities and skills and creativity. To believe in myself is to actually be myself, my true self; to believe and be.

    Sometimes this feels so close. All I need to do is climb over a little ledge before me. At other times it feels like I need to cross a chasm. And it is a chasm that feels too wide. In fact, so wide I can’t really tell if there is another side, it is obscured in the darkness or by the mist.

    hope - believe in myself art journal page

    But I hope. I hope that I will believe in myself. That I will be. And I hope that you can be the person you need to be. Explore what you hope for in your journal, you never know how close your hopes might be to being realised. Take care my friends x.

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  • My Vision Journal and One Word for 2021

    I created a vision journal for 2021. It also includes my One Word for the year. In the video, I show you how I made it, the process for creating the content on each page and how it all ties into my One Word for the year.

  • My December journal and planner set-up

    An overview of my December journal and planner set-up. My Bullet Journal has become more like a bullet journal. However, as I bring everything into one journal I seem to be using more journals! And can you believe it is December already? I hope you are all keeping safe and well? May your planning be happy and your journaling creative and rewarding.