It takes courage to be authentic in a culture content with conformity. However, embracing your authenticity is the only way you learn to become content with your life. Becoming authentic also takes knowledge. Self-knowledge. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," Beryl Markham wrote in West with the Night.

Not if you keep The Illustrated Discovery Journal.

Think of this journal as a visual autobiography of that savvy and sassy babe — your Authentic Self — you know yourself to be. Think of it as a book created by you, about you, for you. (In my opinion, probably the best read you'll ever have in your whole life.)

How happy are you right now? Do you even know? In my twenties I thought fame would make me happy. In my thirties, I knew the secret to happiness was marriage and a baby. On my fortieth birthday, with my little girl and husband blowing out the candles with me, I became convinced that a comma in my checking account balance was the answer to my relentless search. But it was only after I wrote Simple Abundance, a book on how to be happy despite not having any or all of the above, that I gratefully realized that happiness is dependent on one thing and one thing only: self-worth. But before you can hold yourself in high-esteem, you have to know what you love and how magnificent you truly are.