How to Write a Daily Journal

Reasons to start journaling are many from working through a death to figuring out who you are. By using a journal or notebook with a pen that is dedicated solely for journaling, you will find that you can take it anywhere to go. Many people have found it rewarding and life changing.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Go shopping to find a specific journal or a notebook, and a pen dedicated to journaling. Making sure they are special will encourage you everyday to make time to journal.
2. Make a schedule and set aside time even if it is only 15 to 20 minutes. Those 15 to 20 minutes a day will help you stay connected to yourself.
3. Find a special place in your home to journal is another way to help you make time and reconnect with your inner self.
4. If you find making yourself a cup of coffee or tea to help you into that special place to journal, use that. Just the warmth of the coffee or tea helps me to open myself a great deal.
5. Use writing prompts in a book or online as a way to get your journaling flowing on the days when you don’t feel like you have anything to write. Make sure to never feel restricted to only that subject, but branch out from there.
6. Don’t worry if you take more than one page a day to journal. Be patience, fearless and kind to yourself. Don’t stop the flow just because you are at the bottom of the page just continue to the next page.

Tips & Warnings

• Writing in a journal is a therapeutic and very private mental and emotional exercise.
• Keep your journal in a same place and consider it a keepsake worthy of protecting.