As you grow and expand yourself or your business, it is important to record your experience. If you do not journal already, please start right away. It is critical to understanding yourself.
It is important to incorporate journaling into your daily life. The purpose of a journal is to draw out what is within you. Journaling is a wonderful process because it combines both left brain and right brain activities and synthesizes both experiences. Writing tends to be logical and sequential. Yet, when you get lost in it, your right brain creativity kicks in.
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by Deb on February 26, 2013
My strong opinion is always that the handwritten journal is in fact a lot better than the online blog. So get the pen out of the dusty drawer and give the keyboard a rest. You will discover more feelings and subconscious thoughts by handwriting your journal entries. Writing on the computer releases too much technical writing for a personal journal whereas handwritten entries tap into inner emotions more freely.
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by Deb on February 19, 2013
I have to confess: I’ve never been good at keeping a journal. Until this year.
It’s always been something that I’ve wanted to do regularly, and over the years I’ve started journals in many different forms. I have bits of journals in several notebooks and in several computer files, but while they’re interesting, they’re more a testament to my failure to keep a journal going for very long.
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by Deb on February 12, 2013
Running logs are great to have! And, they don’t have to be fancy. You can just use a plain old notebook if you want. The important thing is to get the information down.
Here are my top 5 reasons to keep a running log:
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by Deb on February 5, 2013
A blank journal page or computer screen can be intimidating. But this thought did not enter my head after my daughter and father-in-law died the same weekend. Journaling was the only way I could cope. It helped me cope and continued to help me when my brother died eight weeks later and when my former son-in-law died.
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by Deb on January 29, 2013
Keeping a personal writing journal has a powerful way of healing the soul. When writing about what troubles you and all your immediate thoughts on the subject it creates space for solutions to enter your life. When you write down things that excite you it creates an opportunity to reflect back to that feeling and experience with happiness and bliss. Your greatest teacher will become your personal writing journal as you write down your inner thoughts, special events, future plans, successes, difficult challenges, dark thoughts, bright thoughts, major frustrations and life’s loves in your journal. You will discover more and more about who you are in the world and why your life is the way that it is.
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by Deb on January 22, 2013
Writing journals are documented records of various incidents experienced by a person, his or her thoughts and observations regarding the same or otherwise, and private expressions of emotion. The very practice of journaling helps in crystallization of an individual’s thoughts and ideas, concerns and conflicts. It also helps the writer to identify the subconscious thoughts which might otherwise fade away unnoticed.
The beauty of journaling is that there are very few, if any, rules. In fact, the fun of journal writing is the unstructured writing environment that comes inherently with journaling. Experienced writers and novices alike write down their daily experiences, thoughts and realizations in a journal, and can find the experience of keeping a journal truly rewarding.
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by Deb on January 15, 2013
Self-esteem refers to your feelings about yourself in different domains. It includes how worthy and likeable you think you are and to what degree do you accept and embrace your strengths and weaknesses? It is commonly thought that low self-esteem is linked to negative outcomes, but high self-esteem can also have a negative impact if it is dependent on accomplishments or transient factors, such as possessions or looks. Your neighbour may have high self-esteem because she has a new fancy car, but her self-esteem could crumble when she loses her possessions. Individuals who have high self-esteem because they have attained some socially desirable standard are often preoccupied with comparing themselves to others.
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by Deb on January 8, 2013
Journals are nothing new, they have been around for centuries. Everyone knows about Anne Frank of course, and the two years she spent hiding from the Nazis, and historians can never forget about Samuel Pepys, whose diary provided us a glimpse of what life was like back in 17th Century London. But why did these people keep an account of their daily lives? Why does anyone? It’s certainly not for preserving history.
Truth is, there are many reasons and benefits people write about the day-to-day happenings of their lives. Some of them are:
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by Deb on January 1, 2013
Keeping a journal is the key to success and fulfillment. If you are looking for success in your life begin by journaling in each of these major areas. Here are the 7 areas of your life you need to journal about to improve your life today.
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