Category: Why Journal?

Feb 14

Five Reasons to Start a Daily Journal

journalingKeeping a journal can have a tremendous impact in your life. If you’re thinking about starting a daily journal, try to write a little bit every day to get a feel for it. After a couple of weeks, you may begin to look forward to writing, and you will discover many benefits to writing about your daily experiences.
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Jan 24

12 Reasons to Use an Idea Journal

1. Using an idea journal is fast, easy, and convenient.

It will take you less than 15 minutes each day to record your ideas, goals, and dreams into your idea journal.
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Dec 16

Keep a Dream Journal – Why Bother?

Dream JournalWant a key to unlock your inner wisdom? Try keeping a dream journal.

Experts believe that our nighttime dreams deal with concerns, worries, or events that we experience during our waking hours. A study done in 2003 speculated that about 50-percent of people have work-related nightmares.
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Nov 30

Why I Keep a Journal

Why Journal?I am a journaler. I have kept a journal for over 25 years. You can give me any date in the past 25 years and I can tell you what I was doing on that date. Some people have questioned why I do this. Why bother? What good reasons do I have to keep a journal? That’s what I would like to talk about today.
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Nov 08

Journaling Your Work

Journal Your WorkKeeping a journal is a proven, powerful tool to enhance and benefit not only your personal life and well being. Journaling can also do the same for your work life. It is a way to record and track daily activities and thoughts, which can help with long term projects and goals.
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Nov 06

It’s Never Just a Hamburger – Problem Solving by Journaling

Journal Problem SolvingDid you know that using a personal journal is a life tool that will help you identify and solve problems? For journalers, identifying problems is easy. We just re-read our journals.

There are many other good reasons to re-read a journal, one of them being to identify recurrent themes. Recurrent journaling themes are ideas or thoughts that keep surfacing in a journaler’s diary or blog. It’s important to examine them and learn from them.
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Oct 09

To Journal Or Not To Journal That Is The Question

To Journal or Not to JournalI’m sure that at one time or another every one of us has been told to journal. “What is so important about journaling?” you may ask. “I’ve already had to live with it going over and over in my head, why would I want to write it down?”

You’ve answered your own question.
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Sep 24

The Benefits of Journal Writing

The Benefits of Journal WritingEveryday we experience many different events. Some good, some bad, some memorable and some that can be forgotten the next day. For writers, these events of our lives are a treasure trove of material that could be very valuable to us.

You just had a fight with your mother? Why not write it down?

You just broke your leg? Why not sit down and scribble a few lines describing how it feels?
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Sep 20

Improve Your Communication Skills – Keep a Journal

improve communication - keep a journalCommunication usually involves someone saying or writing something to someone else and receiving a response. But, as I’m proposing keeping a journal can have a special role in communication, you may well ask ‘Where is this response?’ And keeping a journal must appear to be a very one-sided form of communication. Journals, however, have multiple purposes and can take many forms. And none of these is ultimately incompatible with the concept of communication. You may also find that – ultimately – keeping a journal even enhances your abilities in this skill.
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Sep 09

10 Reasons to Start an Exercise Journal

excercise journalIf you are wanting to get into an exercise program and make some kind of exercise routine a part of your daily habits (or almost daily habits) but you are finding yourself unable to actually stick with any program no matter how hard you try, you should start an exercise journal.
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