Review: What I Love About Me: A Very Special Fill-In Journal to Inspire Self-Celebration and Growth for the Year Ahead

This journal enables those who write in it to compile a book that’s all about them. It aims to create an inspiring, empowering and extremely personal celebration, building self-confidence and helping define and obtain goals. It encourages all who use it to appreciate who they are, focus on the positives and improve the most important relationship in their life: the one they have with themselves.

There are practical sections promoting self-care, financial skills and time management, as well as plenty that are just for fun. Users can compare themselves to different foods, select the soundtrack to their lives, choose who would play them in a movie, and compile lists of books and podcasts they’re interested in. There are spaces to record affirmations, intentions and general thoughts, and a useful habit-forming tool.

Write a letter to your future self, track how you are feeling from month to month, or identify your style icons as well as your ambitions: this journal allows you to pause and reflect on all you have achieved and are grateful for, as well as everything you enjoy. One of my favourite entries poses the question, “What would I do if there was no way to fail?”

As the pages do not include dates, this journal can be used at any time of the year, in no particular order. An attractive hardback, it makes a gorgeous gift for a friend or relative, or anyone looking to treat themselves. What I Love About Me generates a time capsule of a person that can be kept as a memento and revisited many years later by future selves or even future generations.

Ciara O’Hara