January 2025

Jan 1

Written By stacy julian

Here’s to new stories…

**What will life in this new month and new year unfold for you?**
There will most certainly be familiar prose and pages of welcome and anticipated details, but there will likely be new chapters and surprising page-turners too. How you read this story—*your story*—is up to you. You are the author *and* the narrator. Which sentences will you underline, which pages will you turn down, what notes will you make in the margin? The most important question of all: How will you be changed by what you experience?
**YOU will always be the most crucial character in your life story. Will you become the heroine?**

Print the Calendar

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Note that times listed below are *noted in Pacific Time*—check our World Clock to convert time zones!

January Dates

New Month Meet-Up: Thursday, January 2nd at 10AM PT, Watch on YouTube
Happy New Year! Come see what 2025 has in store for Live Your Story.

Project Plans: Saturday, January 4th at 12PM (noon) PT, Replay HERE and Recap HERE
This once-a-year gathering is part overview and part Q&A. Come make decision about where to focus your creative energy and learn how this community can support you.

WWW: Wednesday, January 8th at 4PM PT, Replay HERE and Recap HERE
A BIG part of workflow is sparking new stories.
Join in this session and make a January Jar that will help you collect juicy details all year long!

2nd Saturday: Saturday, January 11th from 10AM PT to 2PM PT, ➡️ JOIN HERE
It’s our first-ever 4 hour Zoom session with break-out rooms: Finisher’s Wanted, Family History Stories, Personal Writing, and Start Something New—come and stay as long as you can! 🤎 Please NOTE: This is a recurring Zoom session. You do not need to register, but you do need the passcode: LYS25

Project Play: Thursday, January 16th at 12:30PM PT, Replay HERE and Recap HERE
This month we start our visual connect game using personal images. Come learn more and see if this project is a fit for you!

Do It Together: Tuesday, January 21st at 3PM PT, Replay HERE and Recap HERE
We now have a Writing Prompt, “Describe someone you love with 5, 10 or 25 traits” perfect for a big personality in your life.
Who do you want to scrapbook this month?

Story Coaching: Saturday, January 25th at 9AM PT, Replay HERE and Recap HERE
Some of the excitement for NEW has likely worn off, so Let’s gather to reset our expectations through the lens of an Enough Quotient.
You’ll leave with a “To-Doable” list you feel excited about. You can print an Interest Spectrum to help in this process!

📬 15 on the 15th Email
I’m inviting you to prepare for Story Coaching by contemplating quotes about stories AND spending time with your Storytelling albums. Click HERE to download Story Markers!

Download the ✅ Monthly Tracker. Click to PRINT

Hue & Me

Pantone selects a color each year that captures the global zeitgeist—the Color of the Year express a global mood and an attitude, reflecting collective desire in the form of a single, distinct hue.

🤎 For 2025, this hue is Mocha Mousse, a warm brown communicating a welcome harmony across relationships at home, at work and online.

🤎 With Mocha Mousse there are moments of thoughtful indulgence, but these are wrapped in a grounding gratitude and humility, All good things come of the earth and this color keeps us connected to it, all while suggesting the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee!

Download a folder with the full set of 2025 color swatches HERE!

Design Inspired

Design Inspired in 2025 will be connected to the NEW Products, Tools & Techniques listed on our calendar. January is for Washi Tape. What do YOU want to do to use and celebrate Washi?

Perhaps:

Buy some new colors and designs
Revisit, organize and even photograph what you have!
Get tape-happy in your journal or planner
Let a roll or two inspire a card or page

Watch our Facebook group for ideas and prompts and be sure to share your efforts and creations with our community.

Love Your Library Video

I’m issuing a FUN Toss & Treasure approach to some meaningful memorabilia action—this is because our Photo Freedom review this month comes from the Photo Freedom lesson, Stuff & Nonsense. You can read or download the handout here.

Story Process Video

Follow along as I plan for and execute a single, traditional 12x12 page.
I love the way these cards inspire stories and push me out of my comfort zone with new ideas and creative rails. I got a late start this month, but the cards still guided me to completion. The original StoryDeck, is here.

🤎 THIS YEAR I’m encouraging you to join me in creating one monthly Story Process page! Everyone who posts a finished page to our Live Your Story Facebook group, will be entered in a drawing to receive Happy Mail from me!

I am always eager to hear your comments and questions. 🤎 Feel free to reach out anytime! stacy@stacyjulian.com

I’m so looking forward to telling NEW stories in this NEW year.
What we do and how we document matters—for our own mental and emotional wellness AND for the belonging and resilience of those who will follow.

If it’s been too long, now is the perfect time to jump back in and live your story with this amazing community. Add our January LIVE sessions to your calendar and come interact over on Facebook.

We NEED you!

Did YOU know? Members of Live Your Story now have EASY access to past courses, like 20in20 and Photo Freedom.
When you login, look for these on the list of options!