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The Productive Benefits of Journaling (plus 11 ideas for getting started)
Journaling and personal goals
It serves as a tool for identifying what you should prioritize on a daily basis, and what you should let go of. And it also gives you a record of the progress you’ve made toward your goals to keep you motivated.
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Journaling approaches
- The Gratitude Journal: Simply write about something that you’re grateful for.
- Morning Pages: Before starting work each day, write 3 pages, long-hand, of anything that crosses your mind, to clear your head.
- The Goal Journal: Incorporating your goals into a daily journal is a huge step to getting them done.
- The Values Journal: Identify the values that are important to you. Then write about how the events of your day connect back to your values.
- The Curiosity Journal: Challenge yourself to write about one thing every day that made you stop and ask a question.
What you write, you learn
The key to learning is to stop passively consuming information and start actively engaging with the ideas we encounter.
One effective way researchers have found to reinforce learning is through reflective writing: It promotes the brain’s attentive focus, boosts long-term memory, illuminates patterns and gives the brain time for reflection.
What you write, you control
- Recording your thoughts in a medium outside your own head helps your mind to become quieter: It stops returning to the same worn-out mental loops over and over.
- When you recount and reflect upon your thoughts and experiences you are, in effect, telling your own story. Journaling helps us clarify, edit, and find new meaning in these narratives.
Getting the most out of journaling
- Use pen and paper, to reap the psychological and productive benefits of journaling;
- Make it a habit: Keep your journal in the same spot where you’ll see it at the same time every day.
- Embrace slowness. Resist the instinct to rush through it to get to the next thing.
- Don’t edit; just write.
- Experiment and find out which approaches work best for you.
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Journaling motivates you
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Things to write about in your journal
- Write about your activities.
- Write about what scares you.
- Write about your decisions.
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Journaling: An effective tool
- Journaling can be used to sort through turbulent emotions and to discover hidden lessons from your experience.
- Art journaling: using mixed media can help you express yourself in refreshing and unusual ways.
- Journals can help you reflect. Journaling is a method of allowing the light of understanding and compassion to shine on your past.
Tips to get started with journaling
- Start writing about where you are in your life at this moment. Describe your living situation, your work, and your relationships.
- Don’t edit your thoughts or feelings and don’t correct your grammar. Don’t censor your thoughts.
- If there’s something you are struggling with or an event that’s disturbing you, write about it in the third person.
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