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December 2009
December 2009 LifeJournal Newsletter
It’s hard to believe
we’re coming to the close of another year--and the beginning of new
one! Transitions are naturally a time to reflect on the past and
consider the future. This upcoming teleclass with Eric Maisel couldn’t
come at a better time:
Teleclass with Dr. Eric Maisel: Journal Your Way to Personal Meaning
Thursday, December 17, at 8 PM Eastern | 7 PM Mountain | 6 PM Central | 5 PM Pacific
If
you are looking to find greater personal meaning in your life—looking
for more satisfaction in your daily life, searching for ways to
contribute more fully to the world using your personal strengths—then
you must attend this one-hour teleclass! There is a simple,
step-by-step process you can follow for using your journal as your
primary tool for making personal meaning. Dr. Eric Maisel, well-known
and highly-respected author, family therapist, and founder of the
professions of creativity coaching and meaning coaching, explains this
step-by-step process in this informative—and potentially
life-changing—teleclass. Learn more>>>
If a goal for the upcoming year is to write better, sign up for class with Sheila Bender. I've taken classes with Sheila and she's a master: her classes are
a winning blend of high-quality content and enthusiastic encouragement.
Journal Like the Pros—Online Writing Workshop with Sheila Bender
January, 2010--flex schedule
Sheila
Bender, content partner for LifeJournal for Writers, and author of
books about writing and poetry, offers an online, flex schedule class
(you attend and submit on your own timetable) about how to journal like
the pros. If you took any of earlier Journal Like the Pros classes,
this one will have different exercises--so sign up again! Learn more >>
We're running a special holiday bundle for the next 2 days ONLY (until Saturday night (12/12) at midnight --Eastern time) :
Buy a LifeJournal program (any full version of LifeJournal), and sign up for the International Association for Journal Writing
(IAJW), and you'll get $10 off! The mission of IAJW is to offer real
solutions and practical guidance and encouragment so can you get more
out of your journaling: to write often, in your own voice, and move
into new and deeper territory.
Already
own a LifeJournal program? You could either give the LifeJournal CD as
a gift and keep the IAJW membership for yourself, OR, give the combo
LifeJournal CD and the IAJW membership! You couldn't come up with a
more perfect gift for one of your journaling buddies! Click below to purchase the bundle of your choice:
LifeJournal & IAJW LJ for Writers & IAJW Christian LJ & IAJW
Educators LJ & IAJW StaytingSober LJ & IAJW
A GIFT FOR YOU!
I want to tell you about a totally free online backup service online that you can use with LifeJournal: Dropbox.com
At no cost, it
allows you to save (in total, up to 2 GB of ) files to a remote server
and have access to those files from several different computers. You
can use this service with LifeJournal for two purposes:
A) You can back up
your LifeJournal data, so when your computer crashes, you won't ever
lose another journal entry! (It's easier than backing up to a USB flash
drive--there's nothing to carry with you!)
B) You can also use Dropbox to synchronize your journal entries between computers.
Here’s how I synchronized two computers with LifeJournal using Dropbox:
A) BACKUP
1. I created a Dropbox account and installed the dropbox software on computer A.
2. I dragged the
entire 'My Documents\LifeJournal\[YourName]' folder to my Dropbox
folder on my hard drive. That task backs up my LifeJournal data to a
remote server, so that if my computer crashes, I still have my journal
entries!
B) SYNCHRONIZING: I then wanted to synchronize my LifeJournal program with a second computer:
1. I downloaded and installed the Dropbox software on computer B.
2. I opened
LifeJournal, selected “Restore writer” from the Writer dropdown in the
LJ login dialog, browsed to my dropbox\[YourName].ljd file and clicked
"OK."
3. Then, when I was
ready to close LifeJournal, within LifeJournal, I went to the File
menu>Backup LifeJournal. I clicked the "Browse" button and went to
C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\My Documents\My Dropbox. I have
backed up my most recent journal entries onto the shared Dropbox file.
4.Next time I want to access my most up-to-date LifeJournal data, when I login, I will select "Restore Writer" from the dropdown in the login dialog, browse to my dropbox \[YourName].ljd file and click "OK."
Please, please back up your journal entries to Dropbox or some media other than your own hard drive.
Wishing you a joyous, healthy, and fulfilling holiday season from the LifeJournal family to yours!
Best,
Ruth Folit
www.lifejournal.com
www.IAJW.org
rfolit@lifejournal.com |
