First, Housekeeping

I know that my subscribers have already heard from me this morning, and apologies for the second email today. You will receive the first 3 emails in this series automatically. After that, to continue receive this daily be sure to go to your Substack profile and look at your subscriptions, under Life Souvenirs, toggle the 90 Days section to on. I just want to give my subscribers 3 days to see this in their inbox and then make sure they are subscribed to the 90 Days Section (which is different than my main weekly email list) if they wish to be. After that, it will only be recapped for the main list in the Sunday Wrap Up newsletters.

Also, if you will download the Substack app - you can receive a coupon code (the coupon will only be valid within the 90 day launch window March 1 - May 31 2023; after May 31st this workbook will go up in price and there will be no coupon) so the workbook that goes with this journey is free (with the coupon) for those inside the Life Souvenirs chat on the Substack app. One of the goals is to connect and engage with you and create community around storytelling for life - and I can do that easily and quickly on the chat.

Why 90 Days?

I was inspired by fB marketing guru Rachel Miller to create a 90 days goal of daily communicating with my people to help build connection and community with my audience members - new and old. I hope that I bring value to your life and empower your story. If you find value, I hope that you will share with your people and invite them along on this journey. I also hope that you will engage in the chat and share your stories, aha’s, and hopefully, connect with others there as well.

In this journey, I hope to give you tools that empower your own life story, capture those story souvenirs in ways that you can honor, celebrate and share your stories with others whether it’s your personal stories, your business stories, your family stories, etc. I will also share my own back stories that serve as pieces of the origin story for Life Souvenirs. I will also highlight current projects and products available to you along the way. Will be throwing in some fun things as well - that help us connect and get to know one another. I also have some surprises in store for those who show up and engage and connect during this journey as well!

Wrapped up inside of the 90 Days will be content for products I currently have for sale - all free inside of this 90 Days container - including the 30 Day Live the Dash Challenge that we will be starting early on in this 90 Day journey!

I am so excited for this journey.

Day 01

For Days 1-3, I have some foundational things that I want to introduce you to. That way you can go ahead and set these up and be building on them as we go along this journey. The Live the Day Challenge may bring some things up that you will want to add/remove from these foundational things - so it’s good to have these somewhat in place before beginning the challenge content.

The first of these is the Daily Power Map. This is basically a daily checklist of things that empower your day and empower your life and move you closer to your goals. Now, you may not have the big dream for your life mapped out yet. You may not be clear on your goals yet. That’s ok. We can start anywhere, we just need to start. You can do this old school with pen and paper. You can create your own in a spreadsheet or document. You can create your own pretty version in Canva or other favorite software. Or, you can use the template in the 90 Days with Life Souvenirs workbook. Just choose one that works best for you.

No one wants to live a check list life. Well, almost no one. There are those rare breeds out there that obsess over their check lists. That is not me. I do NOT want you to be a slave to your check list. You do not have to check them all off. The tasks on your lists are tasks that you’ve identified that if you do these things on a daily basis they will move you closer to what you want and how you want to feel. The check list serves as a tool to gauge your day. Each day you divide the number of tasks you completed on your list by the total number on your list to get a percentage. Then you track your evening reflection on your day or your weekly reflection and assessment - and look at the daily percentages and note patterns on how those correspond to how you are feeling about your day or your life or progress at that given time.

Look for patterns with particular tasks - if you don’t get that task done - do you see a pattern or a connection to how your day or week goes or how you feel?

I gave you an example of mine in the workbook. Yours won’t look like mine. Mine also changes according to areas of focus. This took is not meant to be in stone. It’s fluid and adaptable as your needs or goals change.

You do not want a chore list or errands list or a honey do list as your Daily Power Map. The DPM is for daily tasks that you’ve identified that will move you closer to what you want in life or how you want to feel.

On my list you will see that I do have a few chore-like items. These are habits that I wish to create to keep my life and my home in a state that supports the big dream for my life. These are also things that make me feel proud, grateful, accomplished, etc. So, I may attach a different meaning to some things than you would - and that is totally ok and that is the point. Do the things daily that carry significant meaning for your life.

My Personal Story - Right Now

I am working through stories that have carried falsehoods and the wrong meaning for my life. Moreover, I am also realizing I have let the wrong people influence my mental health, my physical health and my belief systems about God, about myself, about .. everything. So, I am on an exciting journey of rewriting stories in my life so that I am the victor in stories of unlimited possibilities; rather than the victim of mainly my own self-loathing, self-doubting stories.

This song represents this journey for me. And it’s my song for the day. I’m rebuilding from the rubble. Maybe not the rubble of love exactly - but the rubble of false stories & false meanings I’ve adopted in my life. There are many days I listen to this song on repeat, so it’s only fitting this song lead us off for the song of the day, day 1.

Let me know in comments or in the chat! I’d love to know!

Connection Task(s) for Day 1:

1. Subscribe to Life Souvenirs if you haven’t already.

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2. Download the Substack App so you can be connected to the Life Souvenirs chat and grab the coupon code to get your workbook for free. If you are receiving this via email - the link to the app in your app store is at the bottom of the email.

3. Grab the Workbook! This file will be updated with more pages as the journey goes on. The link will never change. Once you have access to it - you just login and go back and grab the updated file.

4. The songs of the day will be added to the 90 Days With Life Souvenirs playlist on YouTube. Feel free to subscribe to that playlist! Subscribe to my channel while you are there. I eventually will be back uploading videos :) This playlist will be pretty eclectic - I have a passionate love for all kinds of music.

5. Follow me on Facebook and Instagram if you’d like. Comment on a recent post “90 Days Rock!” It’s our secret code - so I know that you’re here and identifies you as a fellow traveler on this journey!

6. Check out my links page. This is like a link tree. It shows my recent posts and projects and publications.