Trust me, you’ll appreciate the motivation and nostalgia you get from this. This will show you how much you’ve changed and achieved over time.
(5) Occasionally Look Back On Previous Entries
#Keeping a work journal plus
This means it is safe and secure, plus you have it at all times to share anything you want with it. This will allow you to get the most out of the journal as you are writing to you and therefore can trust yourself to be as honest as you care to be. Keep it hidden and do not share it with anyone. You do not want a fake journal unless you are trying to write a fiction novel!ĭo not write with the intention of others reading it. This will ensure you do not edit or filter yourself. I bought leather bound, hand stitched, cotton paged journals from ebay. Buy something a little nicer that you will look forward to writing in. It can be anything you want, but I would advise not to just buy a plain $2 pad from the closest shop. (1) Buy a Really Nice Journal That Matches Your Personality. As per the quote at the start: writing your own personal journal is probably one of the best things you will ever do for yourself… ever.Ī few tricks to motivate you to write a personal journal are as follows: You will start to discover yourself in ways that only a journal could provide. It takes so little time, and the rewards and benefits of a personal journal are so large in comparison. Just picture yourself in a few years from now with years of memories actually written in a library of journals that detail how you go over a close relative’s death, how you achieved that goal, how you were feeling when that big event occurred, what your new year’s resolutions were, how you met the person of your dreams, a song lyric you liked… the list goes on. I hope that this article convinces you to at least give it a go and see for yourself. Reading over your unedited thoughts in the present as you write, and in the future looking back it extremely rewarding but, unfortunately, you can only experience these benefits after you pick up a pen and start it. Keeping a diary is a way you can personally grow and it’s so simple. You can easily witness the amount of diversity you yourself experience on a daily basis from the language you have used, the appearance of your handwriting, the topics you focus on, etc.Ī personal journal allows you to learn and express so much about yourself so easily something that unfortunately gets so easily missed as the uncaptured seconds pass by in an instant, especially with our busy lives today. It is quite surreal seeing an entry from months ago where I had written, for example, “I wonder if this risk will pan out?” and then thinking now about it and realising how much that risk had consumed my thoughts at that point. I have found it incredibly useful flipping back on my entries months ago and gaining so much perceptive on not only myself, but seeing the bigger picture and realising how much I had actually achieved between then and now.
However, there is an added bonus with this: everyone knows that each passing year goes by faster and faster, to the point where everything becomes a crazy blur. There is nothing quite like seeing your thoughts on a page to help yourself vent and express your views as you feel them at the time. However I still write a small entry every few days about what I have been up to, my personal achievements, people I had met, interesting situations, emotions I felt- anything really (again, no rules). I have been keeping a journal for years now and I was convinced that after a week I would have stopped or grown bored. The point is, you do not have to start a diary for any specific reason, and it will benefit anyone if you actually take it seriously and decide to give it a good go. You can be a local marketing executive, a shop attendant, a student studying economics, a plumber- whoever you are. In fact you don’t have to be anything in particular at all. In dispelling the personal journal myth, this also means I have to explain that keeping a personal journal can benefit absolutely anyone- you do not need to be mentally ill, or clinically depressed, or a genius script writer. There are no rules and regulations- you can write as much or as very little as you want, as frequently as you would like, in whatever style you want. Your journal is something you do not share, or, more importantly, do not write for the intention of sharing, which allows you to be completely honest and bare yourself to it. This is the case because keeping a personal journal is all about you and for you. Note the first sentence, above: YOU will do FOR YOURSELF.
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