Make Your Mark Set: Complete Guide to the Self-Coaching Journal, Planner & Notebook

LH Agenda • The Make Your Mark Collection

Wake up the leader within you.

Everything you need to know about Make Your Mark self-coaching journal, daily planner, and notebook that has built a global community of women who lead with purpose.

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Table of contents

1. The feeling that brought you here
2. Why this exists
3. The philosophy
4. The LH Manifesto: Six traits
5. The collection: Three pieces, one complete system
6. Choosing your edition
7. How to begin
8. Who it’s for
9. From the community
10. Questions

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The feeling that brought you here

It shows up on Sunday nights. In the gap between where you are and where you know you could be. In the meetings where you hold back instead of speaking up. In the ideas you have at 11pm that disappear by morning. In the quiet, uncomfortable awareness that you are capable of more, but have no clear structure to channel it.

That is not a lack of ambition. It is a lack of a system.

The Make Your Mark set was built for exactly this moment. Not to add more to your plate, but to give your drive somewhere to land, your thoughts somewhere to grow, and your goals somewhere to live outside your head.

This is for you if

• You have big aspirations but keep losing momentum on them
• You want more confidence, clarity, and intention in your everyday life
• You are an entrepreneur, executive, or emerging leader who wants to grow, not just perform
• You are searching for your purpose, or you have found it and need the daily structure to act on it
• You want to give a genuinely useful gift to another woman who fits any of the above

“Life is like a pen. You have the power to draw whatever you can imagine. But the ink is limited. Use it wisely.” – Kasia Gospoś, Founder of LH Agenda

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Why this exists

Research, lived experience, and a decade of listening.

Founder Kasia Gospos spent years interviewing and researching successful female leaders across Australia and Europe, looking for the common traits that separated leaders who thrive from those who stall.

What she found became the LH Agenda Manifesto: six leadership traits that are both learnable and proven in practice. The Make Your Mark set was built to give you the tools to develop all six, one day at a time.

This is not a pretty notebook with blank pages. Every section, every prompt, every daily thought is designed to build a habit. And all habits need to be reinforced daily.

“LH Agenda is all about inspiring and empowering you. We create beautiful things and experiences to help you go after your dreams and make your mark on the world.” – Kasia Gospoś, CEO & Creative Director

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Amazon · Unilever · Coca-Cola · KPMG · PwC · BHP · American Express · Volkswagen · Zendesk · RMIT

“Most people know what they want. Fewer know who they need to become to get it. That is the gap this set was built to close.” – The Make Your Mark Philosophy

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The philosophy

Rooted in research. Designed to feel beautiful.

Leadership is not a title. The behaviours most associated with effective leaders — self-awareness, goal clarity, creative thinking, and resilience — can be deliberately practised. This set is how you do that, every day.

Writing goals makes them real
Dr. Gail Matthews at Dominican University found that people who write their goals down are significantly more likely to achieve them than those who only think about them. Every section of the journal is built on this insight.

Self-awareness is rarer than we think
Organisational psychologist Tasha Eurich found that while most people believe they are self-aware, only around 10 to 15 percent actually are. The leadership checklist in the journal is your honest starting point.

Your brain notices what you tell it to
The Reticular Activating System acts as a filter in your brain, directing attention toward what you have told it to look for. When you name the leader you are becoming, you start seeing opportunities to be her everywhere.

Mindset is the foundation
Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindset shows that believing your abilities can develop is one of the strongest predictors of long-term achievement. Every exercise in this set is designed to build that belief through action.

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The LH Manifesto

Six traits. Research behind every one.

These traits emerged from interviews with successful female leaders. Every piece in the collection builds them, one section at a time.

1. Passion — Identify what energises you and build more of it into your work and life, deliberately. Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan) shows intrinsic motivation produces higher quality work and greater creative output than external reward alone.
2. Creativity — Stretch your thinking with validated cognitive exercises used by psychologists for decades. Guilford’s 1967 research established that divergent thinking grows with practice. The journal uses both the Guilford and Torrance tests inside its Creativity section.
3. Innovation — Clear the cognitive overload that blocks your best thinking. Work smarter, not just harder. When mental bandwidth is consumed managing every task, there is nothing left for thinking differently. This section structures time and tasks so better ideas have room to emerge.
4. Confidence — Build self-belief through structured small wins that compound. With practice comes confidence. Self-efficacy research shows confidence is built through mastery experiences. The Confidence section creates those moments deliberately rather than waiting for them to happen.
5. Determination — Build the infrastructure that keeps you moving when motivation naturally dips. Duckworth’s grit research found that passion and perseverance for long-term goals outperform IQ and talent as predictors of success. Structure is what makes perseverance sustainable.
6. Kindness — Practise kindness toward yourself and others. It is not soft. It is a performance strategy. Fredrickson’s positive psychology research shows positive emotions broaden awareness and build lasting psychological resources, including resilience and creative capacity.

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The collection

Three pieces. One complete system.

01 — The Self-Coaching Journal

At home • Deep work

A guided personal development program in a single book.

This is the heart of the collection. It is not a diary. It is a coaching session you return to on your own terms, developed alongside leading Australian career, life, and leadership coaching experts. There is genuinely nothing else like it on the market.

Each of the six sections corresponds to a leadership trait from the LH Manifesto. Work through one per month as a real development program, or move at your own pace. The journal meets you where you are.

 

• Leadership Checklist. Assess where you currently stand across all six traits before anything else. Honest self-awareness is the foundation of all growth.
• I Am / I Will Be. Identify who you already are and who you are becoming. Name her clearly and your brain will start finding her in every room you walk into.
• Discover Your Passions. Map the activities that give you energy rather than drain it. Find more of them. Build your work and life around them.
• Core Values. Your values are the compass that stops you compromising on the things that define you. If you find them hard to name, start with what makes you genuinely angry. The inverse is almost always a core value.
• Legacy. Be purposeful about the impact you want to leave. The leaders we admire most are remembered not for job titles but for how they made people feel.
• What Success Means to You. Strip away everyone else’s definition and name your own. Then chase that.
• Dream Day. How you spend your days is how you spend your life. This exercise reveals what rituals and routines you actually want to build.
• Life Planning and Goals. Set your milestones, break them into actions, create the roadmap. Space for up to six goals with full action-step breakdowns.
• Creativity. Based on J.P. Guilford’s Alternative Uses Test and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Do not skip this section. You are more creative than you think.
• Innovation, Confidence, Determination, Kindness. Structured exercises across all four remaining traits, including a confidence challenge designed to stretch you in a real and gentle way.
• Reflection pages. Blank space at the back for everything that does not fit a prompt. Some of the best thinking is unstructured.

02 — The Notebook

Everywhere • On the go

Elegant enough for a boardroom. Practical enough for everywhere else.

A multi-purpose everyday companion in a dot-lined format that gives you structure without rigidity. Take notes, sketch diagrams, map ideas, or do all three on the same page. It travels with you and does not look out of place wherever you take it.

What sets it apart is what is woven throughout: daily thought prompts and bite-sized assignments linked to the six leadership traits. They are light and designed to spark useful thinking in the margins of your day. You might spend thirty seconds on one, or find it opens up ten minutes of real clarity.

 

• Dot-lined pages. The format that gives you a grid without forcing it on you. Write in lines, draw, diagram, or mix all three.
• Daily prompts and assignments. One per spread, linked to a specific leadership trait. Compact, actionable, designed for the person who is always moving.
• Leadership quotes throughout. Fuel for the days when you need it.

03 — The Day Organiser

Every morning • Your desk

Where intention meets action. Your daily accountability partner.

Most of us do not fail because we lack ideas or motivation. We fail because we try to hold too many things in our heads at once, and end up overwhelmed before we have started. The Day Organiser was designed around this single insight.

A clean, undated two-page spread. Start any day of the year.

 

• Signature layout. The Make Your Mark Day Organiser is a special release of our minimalist planners called Day Organisers. It comes in a Signature layout — our most popular layout, and for good reason. The Signature layout is not calendar-based, which means each spread is completely flexible. Use it for a single day, a full work week, a project, a client, or however long it makes sense to work through your current set of priorities. There is no right answer and no wasted pages.
• Top three priorities. Not ten things. Not a rolling list. Three. Research on cognitive load shows that narrowing focus to a small number of key tasks dramatically increases the likelihood of actually completing them. Choose your three with intention before you open your email.
• Task breakdowns. Under each priority, you list the specific actions that make it happen. You are not trying to do a priority. You are doing a series of smaller things that add up to one.
• Activation Energy. The initial push that turns intention into action. According to research by Shawn Achor at Harvard University, the effort required to start a task — your activation energy — is the single biggest factor in whether you do it or not. The lower the barrier, the more likely you are to begin. Tell yourself you only need five minutes. Open the book. Start planning. That is enough to generate the momentum that carries you through. Note: The Make Your Mark Day Organiser (With Inner Colour) includes a daily headline in place of the activation energy prompt.
• Secondary to-dos and follow-ups. Space for everything else — a dedicated container for other to-dos that keeps them visible but out of the way of your top three, and a dedicated section for anyone you need to check in with. Nothing falls through.
• Free space. Use it for end-of-day or week reflection, meeting notes, a sketch, or anything that does not belong anywhere else. Many people use it to answer: how did I go today? What did I learn? What am I grateful for?
• Six full-page inspiration quotes. Designed to cut out and put anywhere you need a reminder of what you are working toward.

The Make Your Mark Day Organiser also includes a dot-lined notes section on the right-hand page for anything else the day generates.

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Choosing your edition

Same powerful interior. Different styles.

The core content of the Journal, Notebook and Day Organiser is identical across editions. Choose what draws you in visually.

Original Collection — Black and white exterior. Inner colour pages. Highly distinctive. The version most people know. Minimalistic black and white cover designs with colourful interior pages. Now on sale. Choose this if you love warmth, character, and a little more personality on every page.

Classic Collection — Dark Teal, Taupe, Black, Mocha, Ivory covers. Refined contemporary design with the same structured interior and a slightly cleaner typography. Choose this if you like a more minimalist style.

Digital Journal — Downloadable. Print at home or use digitally. Same exercises and structure as the physical journal. No shipping, no waiting. Works in any PDF annotation app or printed on A4. A good starting point if you want to try before you commit.

 

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How to begin

Start here. Keep going.

1. Open the Journal. Start with the Leadership Checklist. Complete it honestly. This is your baseline — you will return to it and see how far you have come. Give yourself ten minutes per sitting. This is a development program, not a reading exercise. One section per month is a natural rhythm.
2. Pick up the Planner. On the same day you set your goals in the Journal, open the Planner. Every morning: three priorities, the sub-tasks for each, one reward. Two minutes at close of day to check in and carry anything forward. That is the complete daily practice.
3. Bring the Notebook everywhere. Into every meeting, every commute, every coffee where ideas show up. The Notebook captures what would otherwise disappear. Feed those captures back into your Journal on weekends. Close the loop between thinking and doing.

Research by Phillippa Lally at University College London found that habit formation takes an average of 66 days of consistent practice. The Make Your Mark system gives you the structure to do that practice without having to design it from scratch every day.

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Who it’s for

Made for the woman ready to back herself.

• The emerging leader — You know you have more to offer. You are looking for the structure and self-belief to step forward.
• The entrepreneur — You are passionate about your work but struggle to stay focused and stop second-guessing yourself.
• The manager or mentor — You want to lead your team well, not just efficiently. You care about the people, not just the outcomes.
• The woman at a crossroads — You are looking for clarity on what you actually want, not what you think you are supposed to want.
• The lifelong learner — You love journaling, planning, and growing. You want tools that match your ambition and your aesthetic.
• Corporations and coaches — Used by Amazon, KPMG, PwC, Coca-Cola and more. Bulk and custom monogram orders available.

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From the community

What real women say.

“For our Female Leadership program we ordered these notebooks. Our colleagues from all over the world loved it. A perfect match of inspiration, leadership, and a feminine touch. It made the experience extra special.” – Tirozh Mazoori, Global HR Food Solutions, Unilever

“I started with a new coaching client today and gave her your book. She loved it. I will be including this journal for most of my female coachees going forward.” – Amanda Webb, Founder, One Degree HR / General Manager, Xplore for Success

“A great personal tool that has helped me think about and work on each leadership trait in its own right. This has allowed me to expand my personal growth as a leader at work.” – Susan Bramowicz, PA to State Manager, St. George Business Banking

“A lovely and practical way of summarising some very wise thoughts to inspire us all and, importantly, help us translate them into action.” – Alison Watkins, Managing Director, Coca-Cola Amatil

 See what the full Make Your Mark community is saying.

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Questions

Do I need to use all three pieces together?
No. Each piece works independently. If the journal calls to you first, start there. If you need daily structure more urgently, the planner is a brilliant standalone tool. Many people add pieces over time as they find their rhythm.

How long does the journal take to complete?
This varies enormously. Some people work through it steadily over three to six months, spending one trait section per month. Others take longer, returning to sections as their circumstances change. There is no deadline. Treat it as a development program, not a race.

Is the Day Organiser dated?
No. The Make Your Mark Day Organiser comes in a Signature layout, which means it is not calendar-based at all. Each spread can be used per day, per work week, per week, or per project — however long it makes sense to work through your current set of priorities. You start when you are ready, skip when life happens, and pick up exactly where you left off. No wasted pages, no guilt.

I have never journaled before. Will this work for me?
Yes. The exercises are guided, so you are never staring at a blank page. You are responding to specific, thoughtful prompts. People who describe themselves as non-journalers often find this approach the most approachable kind precisely because it gives them structure.

Can I personalise the pieces?
Yes. All pieces can be monogrammed with initials, making them a genuinely personal gift. Bulk orders with custom monogramming or logo stamping are available for corporate use. A minimum spend of $1,000 applies for bulk discount. Contact us directly to discuss your requirements.

Is there a digital version?
Yes. A downloadable version of the Self-Coaching Journal is available for those who prefer to work digitally or want immediate access.

Is this only for women?
The collection was created with women in mind, particularly those who face specific challenges around confidence and self-advocacy in the workplace. That said, the six leadership traits at its core are universal. Many of the exercises are relevant to anyone committed to intentional personal growth.

What makes this different from other planners and journals?
Most planners help you manage time. Most journals give you blank space to write. The Make Your Mark set does something more specific: it ties daily structure and reflection directly to a framework for developing real leadership skills. It is grounded in coaching methodology, backed by psychological research, and designed for women who want to grow, not just organise.

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Kasia Gospoś is the founder of LH Agenda, a wellness lifestyle brand dedicated to empowering women to lead with clarity, intention, and purpose. What began as a personal journey to create more meaningful structure and balance has evolved into a global movement supporting modern women through thoughtfully designed planners, journals, and tools that nurture mental fitness, resilience, and self-leadership. At its heart, LH Agenda exists to help you move from overwhelm to alignment, and to design a life that reflects who you truly are and who you are becoming.

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