Write Your Memoirs
The phrase "Keep a journal and it will keep you" is always the first thing to pop into our heads when we purchase a blank bound set of paper. And, while it's an inspiring line, we'll admit that we chronically abandon the idea of inscribing before even putting a dent in the pages. Logging your life can be daunting, sometimes even painful, and really requires introspection that not all of us can just spew into scribble.

Well, our suggestion is to find a purse-sized (and not too thick) journal with a look that gets your juices flowing, but with less pages than War and Peace. It's sort of a Jedi mind trick: Fool yourself into thinking there's not that many surfaces to fill. Plus, when the diary's pretty and can easily travel with you, it's easier to forgo Instagram in that bank line to chronicle your happiest moments and purge those trials and tribulations in print instead.

Christian Lacroix Les Anges Baroques Lined Flexi Cover Notebook, $19.95, available at LoveNotebooks.