So many people ask
me why I write each day and there are a few reasons and each of them
are different:
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Capture thoughts and ideas
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Express feelings
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Capture events
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Capture memories
Capturing
thoughts and ideas
A journal can be an
excellent spot to write down ideas and dreams that you have. In some
cases the journal is a wonderful spot to really write them out in
detail even if no one every sees what the ideas were. Capturing of
thoughts can also help as it will also help you see what you were
thinking about at a certain time. Thoughts can also lead to ideas
for blogs or other things later on so capturing them as quickly as
you can is a very good idea.
Expressing
feelings
A journal enables
you to express what you are currently feeling when you don’t walk
to talk to someone else about it. The feelings could be something
you are frustrated with and just writing down the reason can help you
feel better about the situation.
Capture events
Capturing events can
be just that. What was the event that was going on and some of the
different things that happen during it. It has been nice to go back
sometimes and actually see some of the details about an event that
happened in the past. There are times where in the journal you may
add a few notes about different presentations or even where the event
was and what the environment was like.
Capture memories
There are times when
a journal will be a spot where you can sit and write down some of the
memories from the past or even current things you really want to
remember in the future.
Journalling in
general
Journalling can really help you deal with a lot of things that are
going on around you and it doesn’t how you really do it. Some
people will write their journal by hand in a book, some people will
have it in one large document on their computer or as individual
pages for each day and some people may make a voice recording of a
journal entry.
No matter how you journal it’s a personal choice and what works for
one person may not work for everyone. I journal each day and I have
an individual page or document for each day so that it doesn’t get
too long. There are times when my journal will be a page or two for
a day and then there are the days when my journal can be 6 or 7 pages
and it depends what I am writing and how I am writing it. My journal
is sometimes a lot of detail and then sometimes it is more point form
depending on what I am trying to capture.
A journal can be something that you do everyday or just when things
happen and you want to capture them. It doesn’t matter how often
you journal as long as you enjoy doing it. If writing a journal
becomes a chore it is time to tack a break and try doing something a
little different. If someone else is pressuring you to write a
journal that will not work either because you need to be personally
motivated to do it.
For me journalling is part of my daily routine. Yes, it helps me
capture ideas, memories, events and thoughts quickly and in a
document that I can go through later on. My journal is also one spot
where I keep a copy of all my blog entries so that I know when I
really wrote something and maybe some of the reasons behind the entry
as well.
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