Journaling can be a joy – depending on how you will write yours.
There are many reasons for keeping a Journal. What’s Yours?
Here’s a list of possibilities, but anything can be the focus.
- Art
- Bullet
- Creativity
- Dreams
- Food
- Gardening/Nature
- Gratitude
- Group/Family
- Heritage
- Ideas
- Junk
- Meditation
- Pandemic
- Personal Development
- Planning
- Poetry
- Prayer
- Pregnancy
- Project
- Quick
- Reading
- Specific Topic/Time Frame
- Time Capsule
- Travel
- Wedding
- Workout
- Writing
What will you Write About?
Choose a topic and start writing. If you’re not sure which one you’d really like to write about, choose Quick. You can take a moment each morning or evening just before bed and write a one-sentence Journal.
Write one sentence about what you plan or hope for the day or what happened. And it’s your Journal, write both times if you choose. Just be consistent.
Write your word for the day. Whatever you believe you want to focus on or it became your focus because of the day. Done at night, this can open your writing to sharing your day based on that one day – even if the word is negative. Hopefully, it will be a positive word. If it isn’t, try and think of a positive outcome from your negative day – it helps with sleep.
Have a small top-wire notebook that you carry in your pocket and write in it each day while at work, running, visiting with a friend, shopping, etc. Make it your guide to getting things done.
Your Journal should be a place for your hopes, sentiments and dreams. It should help create a narrative and build self-awareness that fosters personal development. It should provide you with inspiration for changing something in your life or help you face a decision.
Journal Writing Prompts
There are thousands of Journalists that write daily, weekly or on special occasions. Writing prompts are helpful for those that don’t have a particular focus. And sometimes, writing about the focus again is a challenge. What can you write about your focus that is different than what you’ve written before?
If you sign up for my writing prompts you’ll be sent a weekly prompt that is geared towards a small business. There are hundreds of sites that provide writing prompts, you can join my Facebook Page you’ll get a daily prompt that is focused on current events, not politics.
The National Journal Writing Month group sells prompts by email 4 times a year. You can visit their website here
Their topic for January is “Journaling for Personal Growth and Achieving Goals”. Start now and they’ll send you all 31 prompts, even though you didn’t sign up the last day of the previous month. You can bookmark it and view their other offerings.
#Journal Writing Matters
Whatever, you decide to write about, it’s completely your focus and desire. But do write. Because #Journal Writing Matters.
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