art journal ideas: create a personal mantra

A great way to keep yourself on track with your goal setting is to develop a personal mantra. In this art blog, I share how I created a personal mantra using my art journal.

For the last two years I have been choosing a word of the year as my one word mantra. This year, I decided to take it one step further and incorporate my word theme into a personal mantra.

In order to facilitate this process, I looked online for quotes incorporating my "one little word", purpose. (see blog post 2015: A Year of Purpose) One of my favorite go-to quote sites is quotegarden.com I love it because you can search for words or themes to find the perfect quote.


The first few quotes I found were good but not perfect. I put them in my art journal anyway...

Tweet: the purpose of life is a life of purpose~Robert Byrne  via @schulmanArt http://ctt.ec/ct8X2+

Tweet: begin each day as if it were on purpose~Mary Anne Radmacher via @schulmanArt http://ctt.ec/c7j0m+

My morning mantra: Begin each day with a sense of purpose

Finally, I made up my on mantra: Begin each day with a sense of purpose.
When I am lying around in my bed randomly clicking on my iphone I forcibly remind myself that that activity has no purpose and I repeat to myself "Begin each day with a sense of purpose" this gets me out of bed and started on my day.

Begin each day with a sense of purpose click to tweet

Do you have a word of the year? 

Do you have a personal mantra that helps? 

Share your personal mantra with me by leaving a comment!