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BE A FORCE OF NATURE

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THE ORIGINAL STATE JOURNAL

A paper journal that's designed to help you build time and experiences in nature into your day, month and whole year. Using nature as your guide and supported by scientific research for being in nature, it will help you restore your vitality and wellbeing, as well as focus more on our planet's. You'll see your productivity from a whole new perspective.

Our time on Earth is our

greatest asset, and our time

in nature is when we are at our

happiest and most alive. Yet

we are spending 90% of our

lives indoors.

ESCAPE THE BOX. THINK OUTSIDE

Your Original State Journal is designed to help you look at your life in widescreen, away from the screen:

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Your Time in Nature: track how much time you spend outside in beneficial, natural spaces each day, week and month.

Your Activities in Nature: use the resources and tools to plan the activities you want to do in nature. The Journal will help you keep your nature experience wide open, boosting your productivity, creativity and resilience.

Your Locations in Nature: With 10 categories of natural landscape to build your adventure plans around - from urban to wider afield - you can keep your nature experience fresh. You'll come back refreshed and revitalised, with a different perspective on how to tackle your life's priorities.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

 

Henry David Thoreau

PRODUCTIVITY: REDEFINED BY NATURE

If to-do lists, multitasking, and deadlines leave you burned out, anxious and stressed, take a leaf from nature's book. Your Original State Journal will help you refocus, and redefine how you stay productive:

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Physical Health and Body: Define and track your exercise in nature. Being in nature lowers your heart rate; reduces physical stress; and improves your sleep, your rate of exercise and your immune function.  

Mental and Cognitive Performance: Define and track your activities that help with mental focus. Being in nature improves creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, concentration and focus. 

Emotional Wellbeing and Growth: Define and track your activities that promote emotional wellbeing. Benefit from nature's ability to improve mood, reduce irritability and anger, and give you the happiness effect.

TAKE A DEEPER LOOK INSIDE

6 pages for creating your Year in Nature plan.

13 four-weekly planner and review sections, with beautiful photographs of nature's pathways and wildlife between each section.

52 weekly planner and review sections, with goal setting, focus areas, reflections, nature connection and wellbeing tools, and free-write gratitude spaces.

26 pages for free writing, drawing or collecting  your thoughts on your progress and experiences: one page at the start and one at the end of each four-weekly section.

A 4 page Year in Nature review for you to complete.

Get Perspective: Away from nature, we lose awareness
of our connection to a much wider, wilder world outside. We
experience a disconnection to the biodiversity of our planet.

SEE THE WOOD, AND THE TREES

Your Original State Journal will help you establish and maintain a strong connection to nature so you get to see it all - the wood, the trees, and beyond:

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Current Nature Connection: Learn about the starting point of your connection to nature, health and wellbeing before you begin your nature journey. 

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Nature Connection Weekly Check-In: A visual tool to understand how close you feel to nature, so you can understand if you need to feel and do more to get the benefits into your daily life. 

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Conservation Goals And Actions: Set out and track your conservation and sustainability actions. By building nature into every day, you not only start to benefit from seeing your own big picture, but you'll do more to help nature's. 

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MONTHLY SECTIONS

Four main focus areas for how you want to benefit from the actions you take in nature.

Time in nature goals, activities and the natural locations you want to explore this month, with check-ins for how well you did at the end of the period.

Physical, mental and emotional wellbeing goal areas. 

2 pages for free writing, drawing or collecting  your thoughts on your progress and experiences: one page at the start and one at the end of each four-weekly section.

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WEEKLY SECTIONS & DAILY PAGES

How we spend our days, is how we spend our lives

Bring your weekly goals and daily plans into focus. Your activities can sit outside of these areas, but they shine a light on activities that best restore and improve your personal productivity:

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Sustainability &

Conservation.

Physical

Health

& Body

Mental &

Cognitive

Performance

Emotional

Wellbeing

& Growth

7-day planner to keep you focused on what's most important to experience, achieve or that will contribute most to your wellbeing, across your entire week. 

Daily pages with space to record your actions, intentions and reflections for each day's experience; as well as your time in nature, and any changes in your focus each day.

 

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand
everything better.


 

Albert Einstein

BENEFITS

With nature as your guide, using your Original State Journal daily will help you: 

SEE LIFE'S BIG PICTURE

GET FOCUSED

IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH

PRIORITISE WHAT MATTERS

MANAGE YOUR TIME

ENHANCE YOUR DAYS

BE MORE SELF AWARE

RESTORE YOUR PLANET

INCREASE YOUR NATURE KNOWLEDGE

LEAD A HAPPIER LIFE

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THE JOURNAL: STYLE & DESIGN SPECS

The Journal is launching soon on Kickstarter - 'the platform that brings creative projects to life' - but its style and design is fully alive.

  • Dimensions: B5 size, 6.9"x 9.8"x1.0"

  • Colour: Venice Blue, with embossed silver logo and name. Other limited edition colours available on the Kickstarter launch.

  • Cover: Durable, thick 300gsm silk matte finished card.

  • Paper and printing: Printed on high quality, bleed resistant, sustainably sourced and recyclable paper, at 100gsm. Printed at a FSC and PEFC Certified printing company.

  • Undated, annual journal: covering an entire year of nature exploration, adventure and discovery. 

  • Easy to use, clearly focused: Designed to let you focus on the most impactful activities in your day that will contribute to improving your personal productivity, as well as improving our planet's.

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START YOUR ADVENTURE

Start your Original State journey today

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