Big Life Journal | Teaching Teens Valuable Life Skills

As a mom and productivity expert, I was honored to complete a Big Life Journal review for their Teen Edition. I had discovered this journal through social media and was intrigued enough to reach out to the company.

As a productivity expert, I often talk about setting life goals for adults and provide some parenting advice on my website. I’m also a mom that coaches her own kids in goal setting and growth mindset. When I received my copy of Big Life Journal – Teen Edition I was pleasantly surprised with the life skills this journal teaches teens.

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Big Life Journal Review (Teen Edition)

As I opened the front cover I was greeted with an inspiring dedication to the new owner of the Big Life Journal. It reads, “To you, an unstoppable dreamer and creator, who has the power to improve the world. We believe in you!”.

Wow! That’s an impressive start!

The Big Life Journal – Teen Edition then teaches about the importance of positive self-talk and how your brain is a powerful tool in your success. The graphics and examples used to explain this little bit of brain science were extremely simple and made the geek in me happy.

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Understanding the concept of a growth mindset is consistently discussed throughout the Big Life Journal – Teen Edition. They talk about what a growth mindset is and how it helps you learn and become successful with practice.

There are multiple brainstorming exercises to help the teen discover their own unique abilities, dreams, and interests. These exercises are wrapped with inspirational quotes, stories, and valid examples to help the teens sort through their thoughts.

I found it very cool that the writers of this Big Life Journal – Teen Edition included examples of youth inventions that have the potential to help improve the world. As an Engineer, it was interesting to see these inventions featured but I was disappointed to find out that many of the commercial products used as examples still aren’t available to purchase.

Where the Big Life Journal – Teen Edition shines the most is in the goal-setting steps that they help the teen work through. They go beyond the typical dream about your future and actually help the teen break those goals into a success plan or mini-goals.

Beyond that, they talk about possible barriers that might stop your teen from achieving their goals and planning for those barriers. Tracking the goals and celebrating the little wins is taught in the Big Life Journal – Teen Edition, as well as figuring out their “why” so they don’t give up.

I absolutely love the section on how to handle life when it seems overwhelming and what to do when you don’t seem to be moving forward. Finally, they re-iterate how the brain can be re-wired and the importance of having a growth mindset during a failure, giving examples of entrepreneurs that are changing the world and learning from their mistakes.

Final Thoughts

As a mom of three and a productivity expert, I expected that the Big Life Journal – Teen Edition would take the teen through lessons in personal exploration, and dreaming big. In my Big Life Journal Review, I loved that the writers teach the teen valuable life skills like positive self-talk, growth mindset, the step-by-step approach to goal setting, barriers, and tracking their successes.

Then they added the cherry on top by discussing what to do when you aren’t feeling productive, and when life is so overwhelming that you feel like giving up on those goals.

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As adults struggling to succeed in life it can be hard to move through barriers and learn to celebrate the wins (big and small). As a parent, sometimes teaching your kids these life skills is difficult when you yourself don’t feel like you’ve mastered the skill. That is where the Big Life Journal – Teen Edition can help you.

Why not use this book as an opportunity to discuss these life lessons with your teen?

I highly recommend this Big Life Journal – Teen Edition to any parent of teens or tweens and will be adding this to my own Mom Toolbox for my own kids. Join me on that journey and purchase one for your teen today!