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The only real self-help book is the one written by YOU. Vision. Accountability. Accomplishment. Gratitude. Humor. RealBook.

26/04/2020

These birds need to get a life, just saying...

25/04/2020

Does putting salt and vinegar chips on everything make someone a "food genius"??? Asking for a friend...

24/04/2020

In these uncertain times, it's nice to know that as long as I have an empty Bud Light box, I'll always be warm...

23/04/2020

I don't want to think of a world without box wine...

22/04/2020

So excited to launch, "And Now For RealBook Entries, By Kat..."

21/04/2020

COVID-19 has given us all extra time to think -- about our work, our relationships, and our goals. As we start to have hope of emerging from this, we all need something to look forward to. I want to share an article that "changed my life" -- dramatic, I know. But true. Over the next month, I will be cherry-picking inspirational quotes from this article to get you thinking about what's next. Here's to everyone's health, safety, and future...

When you have five minutes of down time, how do you spend that time?

28/03/2020

In case anyone could use a little comic relief right now -- I whipped up a Covid-19 edition of Sistah Diaries :)
https://yourrealbook.com/sistah-diaries-covid-19-edition/

20/02/2020

Just a friendly reminder...

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03/02/2020

OK ladies, I would love to have a REAL conversation about the of the . Here are a few observations to get you started…

1. Shakira and J Lo look amazeballs at any age, but especially at theirs. I’d like to personally thank them for kicking ass at ages 43 and 50 and showing the world that women that age are amazing.
2. The stripper pole though? Too far? (As well as several shots of J Lo’s baby maker, especially since her baby later appeared on stage???)
3. Did anyone else notice the contradiction of how the women were dressed (J Lo basically had duct tape on her nips and lady parts) and how the male rappers were dressed (hoodies, sweatpants)? Is it just me, or do we continue to contradict ourselves and set equality and feminism back several decades when female performers feel that they need to flash their cooch on TV while the dudes show up dressed like monks?

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira killed it at the Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show, and ET is taking a look at the best moments! Super Bowl LIV airs Sunday, Feb. 2 on ...

26/01/2020

Goal slayers, what did you get done this week? Share your wins, big or small!

25/01/2020

The first and most important step to reaching your goals is getting in the right headspace. How do you master the chaos in you?

24/01/2020

My dearest beloved Friday, I'm not sure why you saw fit to leave for 7 days, but thank God you are back. Did you bring empty calories, and bouts of productivity peppered with hours of lounging?

23/01/2020

What's on your vision board? I designed the RealBook series with a vision BOOK -- it's more private and is a vital component of (semi) daily journaling ✏️ Does it work? I manifested a unicorn fiancé with a vision book. ❤️Whatever your goals are for 2020, it's going to be WAY harder if you are not in the right headspace, and without a vision.

22/01/2020

Like I always told my kids: Worry never put more 💰 in your checking account, worry never took a test for you, worry never interviewed for the job you want. Use the energy instead to problem solve 💪

21/01/2020

Tough times can serve a purpose -- a painful purpose, but a purpose. How do you get through mental growing pains? 🌷🌼🌺🌞🌦️

21/01/2020

20/01/2020

Remember, goal-setters, just take the first step. This MLK Jr. quote inspired the cover of my breakup edition of RealBook.

13/01/2020

Half a "full-ass" Monday friends!

29/12/2019

Have you become a bit jaded when it comes to New Year's Resolutions? Tired of all the do-gooders on their "path to enlightenment" making you feel like a worthless pile of "who cares"?

Ha! You're not alone! The reason a lot of us feel that way is because simply declaring something to be so doesn't necessarily make it so. What if your New Year's Resolution was "I'm going to be a millionaire!" Saying it doesn't magically make it happen.

Still, the vast majority of us, no matter how jaded about progress we may have become, have things in our lives that wear us down, that we want to improve, that make us feel lesser -- unnecessarily.

These aren't the things we measure against others, they are the things we measure against ourselves. Drinking less, quitting smoking, being more active, improving our relationships, eating better, dropping the pounds that aggravate us.

But life has a super annoying way of taking on an energy that we grow weary of fighting against. Work, kids, bills, obligations. Sometimes anything that spans beyond daily survival feels futile.

There is a way to get sh*t done in your life, without heightening your obligation or leading to feelings of "where the hell do I even start?"

It's a process. Progress and growth happen in slow, but measurable steps.

You need an articulated vision, one that you can visit regularly. You need accountability, gratitude and awareness. And you need a way to track your accomplishments. Perhaps most importantly, you need a way to do this that is fast and effective.

It would be nice if the process you choose has science behind it so you could feel confident that your efforts are not be in vain.

All of the things you just read are the mindset behind the RealBook series I created.

RealBooks are fast, easy and effective. They outline your vision, provide accountability, and in just a few minutes a day you can record gratitude, accomplishment, and create awareness around the things that are holding you back. Best of all, science backs up the benefits of putting these things in writing. (Check out some of the articles I've posted on this FB page for more deets)

Get 20/20 vision in 2020. Click here to learn more about the RealBook series: https://yourrealbook.com/

11/12/2019

Heard this from a sitcom playing in the background (one I don't even like that much) while I was writing in my RealBook, unpacking some of my baggage. Love this!!!

03/12/2019

The RealBook series is only discounted through the end of today. Visit yourrealbook.com for more info. /20visionin2020

28/11/2019

Wishing you and yours a very happy, safe, loving, memorable (for all the right reasons) Thanksgiving! Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

27/11/2019

WOW. Mind officially blown.

People are losing the brain benefits of writing by hand as the practice becomes less common

24/11/2019

Thanksgiving and science called, and they want you to know that they have teamed up to help you live a happier life...

We’ve all read countless studies about the correlation between gratitude and happiness (and if you haven’t it, google it, because it is absolutely the easiest way to get and stay happy). We’ve all read countless studies about the inverse of this, which is how negative thoughts and speech relea...

22/11/2019

I LOVE this video. It really is the little things...will this be the year you actively practice gratitude? If so, RealBook can help you get started! /20visionin2020

18/11/2019

Because, science! RealBook helps you start every day with gratitude. /20visionin2020

Neuroscientists have found that if you really feel it when you say it, you'll be happier and healthier. The regular practice of expressing gratitude is not a New Age fad; it's a facet of the human condition that reaps true benefits to those who mean it.

17/11/2019

RealBooks make great Christmas presents...come see me in person if you're going to be in the Stevensville area on Dec 6!!!

Join Us at Lutzenhiser Jewelry for First Friday on December 6th. Eve Williams will be playing. The foyer will have holiday vendors.

14/11/2019

I totally don't get the cat meme thing, BUT my smart ass friend made this and sent it to me and I HOWLED. Incidentally, the cat is right...yesterday was DAY 30, no alcohol!! Mama's A Hot Mess Pillows & Custom Sewing

12/11/2019

Breakups always suck, but they are particularly sh*tty around the holidays. That's why I busted this out now. I've been there, and it ain't pretty. If you or someone you know is in this place right now, this may be a way to begin the healing process. Having had my ass handed to me more than once, I'm uniquely positioned to help :) xoxoxo https://amzn.to/2q2p7JC /20visionin2020

11/11/2019

SO. True. Serious "win" entries!!! /20visionin2020

07/11/2019

1 step, however small, at a time...

04/11/2019

Amirite??? I don't know about y'all, by my inner and outer dialogue can take on a perpetually negative tone if I'm not super careful -- which is redic if we think about it. Most of us, when compared to the rest of the world, have it pretty damn good. Being grateful is crucial to a healthy state of mind, but can also be difficult to achieve when in the day to day grind.

When I was formulating RealBook in my head, I knew it had to have a place for gratitude. I didn't need a WHOLE journal around gratitude, but I definitely needed to pause every day and start out with all the good things in my life.

I can't sit here and say, "Oh my word, I'm just 16 times happier than I was before I started recording the things I'm grateful for on a regular basis." It's a very subtle -- but nonetheless real -- feeling of overall well-being, and peace, and well, gratitude. Welcoming the light, and inviting the dark to go away, has made me happier.

P.S. I borrowed this from the parenting magazine in Billings that I used to be an editor for, Simply Family Magazine. So happy those gals are still at it and doing awesome!

02/11/2019

Get 20/20 vision in 2020 with RealBook...

RealBook combines all the best journal elements into one format. It's the workbook that works for you!

Get one for you and a friend and experience how this formula of vision, accountability, gratitude, awareness, accomplishment and celebration can work for you!

01/11/2019

This is one of the fundamental principles behind RealBook -- writing things by hand improves retention and learning! Here is another study that underscores that point...

Researchers Pam Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer found that students remember more via taking notes longhand rather than on a laptop. It has to do with what happens when you're forced to slow down.

30/10/2019

Happy Wednesday my pets!!! QUICK QUESTION: Do you have a quote (preferably inspirational/funny) about breakups/divorce you'd be willing to share in the comments??? I'm wrapping up the breakup edition of RealBook, and I'm placing quotes throughout the book. It can be an original quote also, I just need your permission to publish it (I'll let you know if I end up using it)...I'm hoping to wrap up this edition in the next day or so...Thanks y'all!!

30/10/2019

Day 16 — no smokes, no booze. You know how people say when you quit one vice, you start another? It’s true. I’m on a steady diet of pudding parfaits (sugar-free of course)!!!! 😂😂😂 /20visionin2020

25/10/2019

"Why would diet plans wait until after Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve to encourage you to step away from the buffet?"

Ever notice that many diet plans and gyms wait until 12:01 a.m. on New Year’s to bombard you with their “Hey Fatso” advertising? Here’s my theory. They don’t really want you to succeed. OK, so that sounds a little conspiracy-theorist. It’s true that some diet plans like Weight Watcher’...

22/10/2019

Today’s win: switched out my peanut-butter filled pretzels smothered in salty goodness with a very average, snooze-worthy (and not at all salty!!!) apple. Yesterday my doctor said to control my “adult acne” I need to lay off the cheese. At least I THINK that’s what she said... I stopped listening when she started to talk about eliminating cheese from my diet (hence the cheese stick next to the lame apple). Baby steps... /20visionin2020

22/10/2019

Yes -- masterpiece because no one else is like you, work in progress because we are all human. /20visionin2020 ❤️❤️❤️

20/10/2019

"Imagine where you could be this time next year if you just decided to start today." /20visionin2020

The time has come. It’s time to jump out of my comfort zone (more like bungee jump) and share something I’ve been keeping to myself. My heart is kind of in my throat, but here goes. Since my divorce (10 years ago), I’ve been on the couple-drinks-a-night program. I’m a fan of having a couple ...

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What if it only took a few minutes a day to diminish anxiety, minimize chaos, and create awareness around the things you are doing or want to do?

That is exactly why I developed RealBook.

I hit mid-age and instead of experiencing all the relaxation and comfort that I assumed almost five “practice” decades would afford, my life was just as exhausting and messy as it was when I was in my 20s and had little kids. I became increasingly annoyed that the pieces of my life had not drifted together into one neat stack! (My 70 year old mother laughed in my face when I shared this grievance with her, assuring me that it doesn’t matter how old you are -- life always intervenes with your best laid plans.)

There was a lot in my life that was working -- I’m engaged to an awesome man, I have a great relationship with my adult kids, and I’m lucky to live in a beautiful place that I love. Still, the goals that I had and the things I wanted to do continued to stretch outside my reach.

That’s when I decided it was time to start journaling again. I’ve started countless journals, but they all shared a similar format that didn’t work for me -- skads of blank pages. I’ve been a professional writer for 16 years, I enjoy writing, and those endless lines intimidated ME. For some reason (to me at least), it feels like I have to fill those pages and lines with super insightful reflection and introspection, or I’m doing it wrong.

I didn’t have the time and patience to hand-write in a diary format every day, and I sure as hell don’t have the time for daily, wordy, insightful prose. The structured journals I found were too structured - blek. I have lists and reminders and gnawing obligation in several corners of my life. I didn’t need the added pressure of something that was more or less a daily planner.

I’ve also always been terrible at sticking with phone apps. I think they’re cool for about three days and then I lose interest. In addition to that, as I writer, I fully recognize the power of taking what I’m thinking and physically writing it somewhere. There are several studies about the power of taking something from your head and committing it to paper. It’s why when we write a grocery list we can remember most of it even if we forget the actual list. It’s why many teachers still insist that kids take notes in class. The act of physically writing improves retention.

I needed to find a journal that satisfied the following criteria:

It needed to be fast and fun. I’m BIZ-ee.

It needed to provide some structure, but not the kind that heightened obligation or made me feel like a failure.

It needed to be part vision board, part accountability partner, and it needed to give me a place to catalog wins and accomplishments.

Needless to say, I couldn’t find such a journal. So I created one. I call it RealBook because we’ve become such digital animals that we are no longer able to hold our thoughts in our hands. We have to wait for Facebook to pick and choose our memories. And many of us are not sharing what is really going on in our personal lives or in our heads on Facebook. I wanted to physically record the things that I thought would move me closer to my goals, relieve feelings of being overwhelmed, reduce chaos, and create awareness. I thought how fun it would be to have a few of these completed volumes that I could revisit to see where I started and where I ended up.

So I created RealBook for myself. But then I thought, “I can’t be the only who could benefit from this format.” Most of the women I know, regardless of where they are in life, have the same level of struggle, chaos, and a perceived lack of accomplishment that I have.

RealBooks have vision books (like a vision board, but more personal) and an accountability page. Each day (or so) there are just a few lines to record:

Gratitude

To DID (not to-do)

Triggers and reactions

Wins

There is also space to record what you learned, what made you laugh and what you let go of.

This format can be completed in just a few minutes. There is a second page that has a frame to record memes, quotes, bible verses, etc. that resonated with you that day as well as extra lines if you want to expand on anything. Or you can completely ignore the second page if you don’t have time.

RealBook helps to create awareness and focus, and is a heck of a lot cheaper than therapy!

Once I published the original, I thought it would be fun to create RealBooks for every season, which I am currently working on.

I intend to take a few minutes a day that I spend on Facebook (yes, I recognize the irony of that as I write an About page for Facebook ha ha), and redirect it in a place that genuinely helps me to create alignment and awareness. (Plus no one will ever hack your RealBook!!)

I would love it if you joined me on this journey. RealBooks can be found on my website (yourrealbook.com) and Amazon (Amazon.com>Books>RealBook Kat Hobza).

Happy RealBooking!!

Kat