Happy 1st Birthday ~ 2 * 0 * 4 Lifestyle

Luke 10:27 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your strength and with all your soul."

We're a whole person, not just the physical, but all the diets and exercise that people focus on makes us think we're only physical beings.

How would it be to have a planner that reminds you to focus on all four aspects of your self?

Your Relationships with Others


Your Intellectual Growth

Your Diet and Exercise (especially the new Keto / Fasting focuses)

Your Spiritual Connection with God

2 * 0 * 4 is designed to help you keep re-charging those connections and tracking them throughout the year, with progress meters, habit trackers, reviews and previews, and planning charts galore.

7 covers for each individual taste.

Cityscape

Tea Time

Floral

Woodland

English Cottage

Meadow

Mountain Stream

Here are a three sample pages.

What more could you want?

A great deal on Amazon, still only $12.00 (that's a buck a month). And NOW is the time to be thinking about your plans for next year! Before the holidays start hitting and you've too many distractions!

Transformation is the Goal for 2019

A Planned Transformation?  Easy enough . . . with the 2 * 0 * 4 Lifestyle Planner.

7 cover versions:  Mountain River, Woodland, Meadow, Floral, Teatime, English Cottage, and Cityscape.

The Mountain River cover

Need more information? 

Available exclusively on Amazon, $1.-- for each month for a total price of $12.00.  What a bargain!

Is 2019 the Year You Become a Published Writer?

Be resolved.  Set your goals with the Think/Pro Planner then read Think like a Pro:  New Advent for Writers to work your way to becoming a professional writer.

The Floral Edition of the book is at this link:  available in ebook or paperback formats.

Free to read in Kindle Unlimited, $4.99 for the ebook, and $8.99 for the paperback.

The Planner at this link:  available only in paperback and only $12.00 (one buck a month to achieve your dream).

Also available in the Guiding Lamp editions.  The book is Here and the Planner is here.

Gift Yourself a Touch of Beauty for Every Day

Available on Amazon.

The two page weekly spread, undated so you can start anytime, take a brief break, and pick it back up.

Progress Meters Keep you on Track.

Introspection sets the Goals.

Change Your Focus, Change Yourself

"Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat."
Skip that nursery rhyme prediction in 2019. Plan to feast and fast, muse and move, and live and love.

Available on Amazon for only $12.00.

Gifts and Resolutions

Looking for the perfect and unique gift for the special people in your life?

Want something they will remember all year long? Want something that they keep talking about doing but never quite manage?

Want something for yourself? Something beautiful and purposeful?

Meet the 204 Lifestyle planner, in 7 versions.

Undated. Weekly two-page spread. Focusing on movement and meditation, feasting and fasting, brain gain and relationship building.

With six week reviews, seasonal retrospections and re-sets, and pages for notes, gift lists and plans. And a calendar of major dates for 2019 to 2023.

At the low planner price of $12.00. A dollar a month is a deal.

The Meadow Version, for lovers of birds and flowers.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718133286

The Floral Version, for the artistic aesthetic.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1719990379

Cityscape, the Knoxville, TN skyline, with the Henley Street Bridge.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1720155283

English Cottage, a warm English garden and a cup of tea.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1720073309

Teatime, the peace of drinking tea in the back garden

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1720073309

Mountain River, for lovers of the Smoky Mountains (an actual location in the Smokies).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1720155321

and

Woodland, for the hikers in the family.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1720155348

Meadow / Floral / English Cottage / Teatime share similar font types, specifically Leafy Glade and Harrington. Sample pages:

Cityscape / Mountain River / Woodland share the font TUSJ and Cambria. Sample pages:

Contact winkbooks@aol.com if you want more information.

No, we don't collect email addresses. We have better things to do--like writing more books and creating more planners. We'll just respond to any question / comment / speculation and wish you well.

And we wish you well now.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.

Teatime with 2*0*4

Here's a first look at the Teatime version of the 2 * 0 * 4 Lifestyle planner.

21 days to break a habit.

66 days to make a habit.

I've always envied the English their afternoon tea.

It's not the tea and the biscuits (cookies in American) and savory little sandwiches with the crusts cut off.

No, it's the "institution" of a quiet break before we must re-gird ourselves for the remains of the day.

The Spanish have their siesta, another wise institution, especially in hotter climates.

But afternoon tea draws me in.

Some might liken this afternoon break to stopping at the local bar before heading home.  I don't think so.  Stopping at the local is only grabbing something before heading off to consider the day done and over.

Teatime is not really the end of the day.  We still have a couple of hours of work still to do.  Tea--or coffee if that's your preference--keeps us perfectly sober, in our selves and the world but stepped back a little.  Our bodies have time to relax; our minds have time to de-stress; our hearts, time to consider those around us, and our souls, time for quiet contemplation.

What more can we want?  A method to keep us on track.  To check our progress.  To remember all the parts of ourselves with the rapid pace of the world is clawing us into tattery shreds.

66 days to make a habit of quiet contemplation, to keep us de-stressed, to help us be considerate, and to relax before we tackle the last push of the day.

2 * 0 * 4 is designed for these 66 days.

Divided into 6-week and seasonal increments for re-setting your goals and activities.  An undated weekly layout so you can start anytime.  If life interferes, you can pick back up where you left off.

And a beautiful cover celebrating teatime, to remind you that a daily spark will save you from the mud of life.

Sit down.  Have some tea.  Think about your various spheres of life: heart and mind, soul and body.

$12.00 is all you need to spend to begin your transformation.

Recalculate your Life

It's Release Week for the 2 * 0 * 4 Planner.

How often do you change direction?  Jeep has a commercial about breaking society's expectations and pursuing your own.

That commercial looks great, doesn't it?  Here's the thing, though.  What will direct your re-calculation about what is important in your life?  What will direct your resolve to transform?

The 2 * 0 * 4 Lifestyle planner will NOT direct your transformation.  No one should.  That transformation is up to you.

But 2 * 0 * 4 can help you clarify your goals and remind you daily to focus on them.  Every six weeks, you can renew your focus or re-calculate your direction.

And that's what is important.  Living the life you want rather than following the rest of the sheep.

Here's a look at the urban Cityscape planner, a little blurry because it's a screenshot.  And there's the bridge (the Henley in Knoxville), a metaphor for the bridge you want to cross.

Get yourself a 2 * 0 * 4.  Decide the changes that you want to make.  Those exercise goals:  they're the easy ones.  Those intellectual pursuit you keep putting off:  again, easy to decide on, difficult to follow.

The hard goals:  the heart ones, the ones about your relationships.

Hardest of all:  the soul goals, the ones that change you deep inside.  They're hard because they require you to delve deep inside, to your essence.

You need time to consider the goals you wants.

$12.00 is all you need to aim you for that transforming bridge.

2 * 0 * 4 Lifestyle: Remember the Soul

C.S. Lewis is often credited with saying

"You don't have a soul.  You are a soul.  You have a body."

William Walsham, in 1876, wrote:

Now I think I am wrong, after all, in saying that you have a soul. Ought I not to say, you are a soul? Is not the soul really yourself? In truth, my children, it is the soul that has a body, not the body that has a soul; for the soul is greater surely than the body, and will last when the body is laid aside in death. 

The idea originated earlier than Walsham, all the way to Luke 10:27:  "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind."  A lawyer had asked Christ for the path to eternal life.

And Christ turned back the question with his own, a very important question, one that we need to remember.  "What is written in the Law?"  (In other words, know the Bible.)

The man answered referred with Deuteronomy 6:5:  "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might."

Old Testament and New Testament, and most of us are still neglecting our soul.

For most of our lives, we're busy with our jobs (minds in use) while we concentrate on good things to eat and exercise to do (body in use).  We enjoy our time with our families and friends.  And we neglect the Soul--except for a little bit of time on Sunday, if then.

We have no trouble remembering our bodies.  It constantly reminds us of its needs:  Feed me.  Take me to the bathroom.  Let me sleep.  Get up and walk, you lazy bum.

We remember our minds, for it will chatter at us:  What do we do next?  Should we turn there?  Who on earth is that?  I've forgotten.  It's on the tip of your tongue.  Write that down so we'll remember.

Our hearts crave relationships:  husbands and wives, children and parents, sisters and brothers, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles.  Friends, more friends, close friends, mere acquaintances.  Wish I knew how to keep my boss happy.  How can I help that homeless man?  My neighbor is sick;  I'll take her some soup.  And so on.  We build circles upon circles, ever expanding spheres of contact with others.

How often do we allow ourselves time to connect to our souls.

"But I go to church," you retort.

Is that enough?  Don't you feel a yearning for more?

The 2 * 0 * 4 Lifestyle can give you more.  It focuses on the mind and the body and the heart AND the soul.

Set goals for all four parts of your life.  Motivate yourself with daily check-offs.  Use progress meters to evaluate shifts of focus or new changes to make.

How can one planner help me with this?

Come back tomorrow for more information in our week of promos.  We have seven different covers to highlight.  Or head over to Amazon.  Currently priced at $12.00, this planner is a bargain for a year's worth of guidance.

And you will have a beautiful cover to spark joy every time you see it.

By the way, many dispute that Lewis said the opening quotation;  however, he did say that we have an organic unity.  Since he came to know his scripture very well (after J.R.R. Tolkien showed him Christ), I will guarantee that he was familiar Luke 10:27:  "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind."

Find the floral 2 * 0 * 4 here, exclusively on Amazon.

Just Released: Meadow Version of the 2 * 0 * 4 Planner

A Planner for Life: That was the intent in the development of the 2 * 0 * 4 Planner.

Screenshot from cover designer at Deranged Doctor Design, showing front and back covers side-by-side

We were singing: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength."

That's from Luke 10:27.  To place this verse in context:

25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[c]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d]”

28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

Heart.  Soul.  Strength.  Mind.

Too much in society tells us to focus on improving our bodies.  How many of your New Year's Resolutions are about diet and exercise, stress and sleep?  How many dream of vacations where all you do is sleep late then lay on the beach (and get sunburned)?

Society all tells us that our minds are very important.  We school our children for 12+ plus years.  We urge them to attend college for even more years, 2 or 4 or 6 or 8.  Many of us involve ourselves in Bible studies of some sort, or we read self-help articles, or we peruse magazines or take online courses.  We don't want our minds to stagnant.  Even when we're tired of work, we still pay attention to baseball standings or other sport scores.  Or we get involved in craft classes.  We constantly learn.  Often, improving our minds becomes one or two of those New Year's Resolutions.

Our hearts are our relationships, and many of our self-help readings or discussions involve ways to improve our relationships with family and friends.  Yet even though we intend this improvement of our heart circles, we don't think about turning these intentions into New Year's Resolutions.

And the thing that is consistently neglected on many people's New Year's Resolutions:  that's the Soul.

We ARE a Soul.  A soul with a beating heart for others, a curious mind, and a working body.  We think about improving heart, mind, and body.  We should work on soul improvements as well.

I'm preaching, aren't I?  Time for marketing.

And the 2 * 0 * 4 planner can help improve Heart and Soul, Mind and Body.

How can one planner do this?

Well, come back tomorrow for more information in our week of promos.  We have seven different covers to highlight.  Or head over to Amazon.  Currently priced at $12.00, this planner is a bargain for a year's worth of guidance.

And you will have a beautiful cover to spark joy every time you see it.

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Feasting and fasting, musing and and moving, building relationships, and avoiding stagnation.

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