Hi everyone, Carly here with a small project life share. This year my approach to project life hasn’t changed that much. I’m still documenting what I can over a month and not stressing about how much I am able to capture. For me, documenting our family’s story needs to be easy and stressfree.

The one small change that I have made to my documenting this year is to take my photos with more purpose. Last year I just took snaps here and there with really not a lot of thought behind what I was photography. I still love how the book turned out, but wanted this year to have a little more thought and intent behind what I was photographing. So this year I’ve decided to take at least one photo a day of something I am grateful for. Maybe it’s something small like my morning coffee, or maybe it’s something really big like my daughters smiles.

Having this new focus and intent behind my picture taking has really made me love doing project life again this year and has given my documenting a great new purpose. It’s made the entire documenting process good for the soul!

I think the big thing to remember when it comes to documenting is that there is no right or wrong way to do it. You just have to find a way that works best for you and that is easy to stick to. For me, it was changing the reason why I pick something to photography that has made me excited to be doing project life again this year and I just know that at the end of the year this book will be such a great keepsake to look back on.

Have you made any changes to how you are approaching project life this year or perhaps this is your first year? If so, let us know how you are approaching it!

-Carly

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*Products used in today’s pages include: pictures + words, i am thankful no.2, brightside, the open road, presslines no. 18 and penned no.1.