Journal

Journaling is a practice writing our thoughts, goals, experience and other activities in a notebook or digital format. Many people use journals to reflect their own lives, improve their mental clarity, track habits, or just to excess their clarity.

Why Start a Journal?

The benefits of starting a journal are endless. Busy endless work routines make us feel stressed and depressed.

Just try writing what happens daily activities and track your progress every day. Here are my favorite journaling benefits that helps you to get motivated, inspired and to get started with your journaling experience.

The benefits of starting a journal are endless. 

• Helps to Increase productivity
• Increased your self-awareness 
• More gratitude and appreciation for small things
• Clarity and focus on activities
• Better mental health
• Increased mindfulness
• Helps to set, chase and achieve goals
• Strengthened your willpower
• Boosts the confidence level
• Improves your mood
• Decreases the stress
• Journaling can also help to create to new ideas, initiates creativity sparking, and inspiration in general. (my favourite perk).

Rules of Journaling

Great news! There are no basic rules for journaling.

Don’t be panic even if you do mistakes and grammatical errors, with not a good handwriting.

Let your creativity flow freely.

It is okay not to have a beautiful handwriting or the most favourite Pin-interest worthy journal entry that the world has ever seen.

The point of journaling is to express your thoughts in honest way. Well, always remember others have no impact on what you choose to journal, how many spelling mistakes you have done or if your journal is perfect or not.

Guys, this not the time for perfection

Journaling is something private- your safe zone.

How to Write an Journel:

The first and the foremost step of starting a journal is quite simple.

All you need is your favorite pen or color sketch to draw.

That is, it.

I highly recommend you dive deep into the reason a brain storming session why you really need journal

Ask yourself the following three questions right now, and write down the answers:

1. “Why do I want to start a journal?”
2. “What do I hope to get out of it?”
3. “What do I want to accomplish?”

It’ll be much easier to be consistent and make journaling a habit if your WHY gets to tag along. 

A few reasons why you may want to start a journal could be that you want…

• More clarity
• To motivate yourself
• A peaceful mind and better emotional health
• Be more productive
• To track your goals 
• Spark daily creativity

And so on. 

Before you get started, be sure you know your why. 

Has it? Great, let’s get started. 

Why Start a Journal?

The benefits of starting a journal are endless. 

As a busy woman in today’s age, it’s ridiculously easy to feel stressed and overwhelmed.

Take advantage of these amazing benefits that journaling will have on your life, and learn why it’s so valuable to start doing it daily. 

Here are my favourite journaling benefits to get you motivated, inspired, and started with your journaling experience.  

• Increased productivity
• Increased self-awareness 
• More gratitude and appreciation for the little things
• Clarity and focus
• Better mental health
• Increased mindfulness
• More likely to set, chase and achieve goals
• Strengthened willpower
• Boosts confidence
• Improves your mood
• Decreases the likes of stress and overwhelm
• Journaling can also lead to new ideas forming, creativity sparking, and inspiration in general. (my favourite perk) 

 

The Different Types of Journals

Fun part! Let’s us dive in to deep

So, which type of journal that you should opt for?

What is the best solution to tackle your journaling needs?

Well, honestly it depends on what you want to journal about and why. 

Get your why out of your pocket and onto the table. 

 

Here are a few of the different types of journals you can choose from:

 

• The Bullet Journal – Bullet journaling is one of the popular of the trendiest ways to journal for productivity and goal setting. This concept was invented by Ryder Carroll. It’s best described as a mindfulness practice disguised in a productivity system.

 

• Morning Pages – Morning Pages is from the book, “That Artist Way”, by Julia Cameron. The idea helps to stream your consciousness freely on a piece of paper, preferably in morning. Don’t think, just write a page every day.

 

• The Dream Journal – A journal that is devoted to your dreams the dreams that you have while you sleep or the dreams of your life. Every morning, you write few sentences about your dream or things that you want in your future. 

• The Gratitude Journal – Journal for gratitude. Start and finish the day by writing down what you are most thankful for – big or small. 

 

• The Mental Health Journal – Journaling for mental health is an effective way to get some clarity and peace in your life. As someone who has dealt with anxiety, journaling was always a wonderful substitute for a therapy session. Think of it as a therapy session for yourself. Get out the good, the bad and the ugly thoughts and distance yourself from them. I find this way of journaling to be really helpful when it comes to my emotional wellbeing and I highly suggest writing for better mental health if you’re struggling with negative thoughts, depression or anxiety. 

 

• The Pregnancy Journal – If you’re expecting, keeping a journal and logging your pregnancy journey can be really helpful to track symptoms, your anatomic changes, and general wonderments during this special time of your life. 

 

• The Food Journal – If you’re looking to lose some extra weight or just want to have a bit more insight as to what you’re actually stuffing your face with – keeping a food journal is the way to go. Log everything you eat and drink, and during what times of the day. 

 

• The Art Journal – The artistic type, are we? Draw, doodle and devote your journal for making art. 

 

• The Guided Journal – If you’re not sure where to start, a guided journal can be favourable for you. The Five Minute Journal is my go-to guided journal and I write in it every day. Yes, every single day. It’s THAT good. More on this journal soon. 

 

• Journaling for general ideas and brainstorming – Jot down any new brilliant idea that comes your way and keep track of them in your journal. It’s a good idea to keep this journal with you at all times because you’ll never know when an excellent idea will spark.

 

• Scrapbooks – Gather memories, dreams, create mood boards or whatever makes your heart sing. A great way to gather thoughts onto a vision board and make it into something REAL. 

 

• The Dear Diary Journal – Journaling in its most classic form. I’m getting nostalgic just typing this up. You know the deal here.

Journaling is a simple habit that can help improve organization, self-awareness, and creativity. Whether you're tracking books, recording memories, or setting goals, a journal can become a valuable part of your daily life.

When To Journal

I know how easy is it to make your journaling habits for a rainy day. It is too hard to get the habit into your routine. If you are new to journaling that get started with a small dose. You don’t have to journal for hours or aim for filling out empty pages. This is the way to go.

Start with setting aside time to journal for 5-10 minutes every day – to start with.

Just write something – anything you want.

I would advise you to journal at a same time during the day to be consistent.

To stick to this habit, do it right after a every routine that you’ve already implemented – for example brushing your teeth or while you sip your morning coffee. 

Make journaling a ritual in your everyday routine time. 

Conclusion

Last but not the least

Make It Fun

Please don’t make journaling something you are stressed of.

It shouldn’t feel like a chore and it’s supposed to be fun. 

Something you do for yourself.