How to Keep a Journal for
Self Help and Self Development
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| my journal and pen |
The point of keeping a journal is to give you the opportunity to take stock, to see where you are going, where you want to go and how you are getting on on your journey. Essentially - it is your chance to get in touch with the real you. With this aid I am asking you to learn about yourself, to read your own reactions and to come to understand your own power.
Your journal doesn't have to be elaborate, it doesn't even have to be grammatical. It is a record for your eyes only, no one is ever going to see it except yourself so it is a real opportunity to drop the shields and be completely honest.
It can be a physical journal or a computer one, whichever works for you.
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| writing in a journal from Pixabay.com |
Tips on Keeping a Journal
1. Allow it to be enjoyable, if it is a chore you won’t do it. If, because of where you are at this moment in time, it feels like a chore, make sure every time you do write something that you congratulate yourself for an accomplishment. Shrug off the days you add nothing. Every day gives you a new opportunity for a new start.
2.
If you like working with a computer, you will find a journal on
computer will make it even less of a chore.
3.
It is important that for the duration you write something in your
journal every time you do something related to self help or self development.
If that is a meditation don’t try to analysis it during the meditation but
write down your experience immediately after you finish.
Coming back later is part of the key to understanding your journey.
Coming back later is part of the key to understanding your journey.
4.
Although you don’t need to fill it in every day put a date on each
entry.
5.
Be completely honest here. To do that you have to REALLY listen to
yourself and your reactions.
6.
Put down everything, even the things you don’t like to admit.
7.
Write down the negatives as well as the positives.
8.
Having written them down, go back and read them often and see if
your reactions are any different as the weeks go by.
9.
Remember you are not writing the “great” work of the century so
don’t be too picky about what and how you write. Sometime a single word can say
everything you want so don’t knock it. On the other hand you may be like me –
writing things down is one of the ways in which I deal with life and my issues
– so go for it.
10.
Include all dreams and meditation insights that you have, a
notebook by your bedside is always handy. Just note down key words which will
spark your memory later when you have time to write it all in your journal.
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