About Choose A Life You Love
Choose A Life You Love (CALYL) is an independent Australian lifestyle magazine, creative studio and shop dedicated to exploring, creating and sharing what we love! 🫶
It's a place where real life becomes beautiful editorial content.... where experiences... discoveries.... people..... places and products are brought to life through original photography.... personal storytelling.... thoughtful design and creative human and AI collaboration.
And importantly, it's a place where readers can do more than simply read.
They can explore.... reflect.... journal..... discover products.... purchase original creations and collect beautiful printed editions to keep in their own little books of love ...awwww! Did we say how much we absolutely LOVE what we do??? OMG!! Yes we do!!!! 🩷💛🩵💜
The Three Parts of CALYL
1. CALYL Magazine: Discover
Thirty diverse lifestyle categories. Beautiful editorials about real experiences, interesting places, products, people and ideas.
From everyday moments to new adventures, we share the things we genuinely love! 🥰
Explore our magazine: choosealifeyou.love
2. CALYL Experiences To Explore & Keep
Journaling prompts, Micro Moments, choice cards and collectable creations designed to help readers choose if they want to engage with what they discover.
We're also developing printable, binder-ready magazine editions — beautiful little collections of the stories, photography, reflections and creative discoveries that we share on the site, so that our readers can print, collect and revisit and keep!
There is no prescribed way to use the website or the content we create.
Just opportunities to pause, consider, explore and choose what feels meaningful to you.🩷
Our Journaling Collection
At the heart of CALYL's creative beginnings is our collection of 30 guided journals, inspired by 30 diverse lifestyle categories.
Each journal offers an opportunity to explore a different part of life through thoughtful prompts, personal reflection and the freedom to discover what matters to you.
They're not about telling you how to live or what to think. They're about creating space for your own thoughts, experiences, discoveries and choices.
Available in digital and printed formats, our journals are part of a growing collection of creative ways to explore and choose a life you love. 🩷
3. CALYL Shop: A Place To Create & Collect
Original printables, journals, stationery, binder collections and other creative products, alongside carefully selected recommendations and appropriate affiliate partnerships.
Some products are created by CALYL. Others are things we've personally discovered, experienced or loved.
Discover our shop: shop.choosealifeyou.love
What Makes CALYL Different?
Choose A Life You Love is not simply an AI content site, a journaling business, a personal diary or a traditional online shop.
It's the combination of real-life discoveries, beautiful magazine-style presentation, opportunities to participate and tangible things to keep.
We believe in the value of original experiences, personal perspectives and thoughtful creativity.
Technology, including AI, can help us explore ideas and create beautiful things. But real life, human experiences and genuine creative expression remain at the heart of CALYL. In saying that, we are actively and currently exploring and using AI in our everyday processes in 2026 as this is written today.
Where It All Began
CALYL was founded by Australian creator Nina, who loves discovering, making and sharing beautiful things.
As she approaches her 50th birthday in October 2027, she's continuing to explore what it means to choose a life she loves... through everyday moments, new experiences, creative projects and things she discovers and loves along the way🩷
What began as a personal creative journey is growing into an editorial publication and online shop with room for more stories, independent makers, contributors and creative voices.
If this sounds like something you'd like to contribute to, whether as a maker, business owner, writer, photographer or something else entirely, please reach out! 💌 We love sharing the love! 🫶
At its heart, CALYL is an opportunity to pause.
An opportunity to consider.
An opportunity to choose a life you love.
Thank you for sharing this journey with us.
We're really glad you're here. 💕
With love,
CALYL 🩷
Choose A Life You Love
Keep Exploring
Return to the CALYL home page and see if there's anything new you love today!