Keeping a journal is a great way to put your emotions on paper and treasure experiences. In the future you may want to remember what you were doing in previous years. A diary will help you remember all the moments, good and bad, of the past. A journal can also be used to vent your anger and frustrations, as well as your frenzies. It's a good way to express your feelings and free your heart from sadness, or, when you feel the need for someone (something in this case), to reveal your innermost thoughts to them. Many have started journaling at one time or another, but have never been able to keep it up to date. Typically, you start writing in times of difficulty, and then stop immediately as soon as things get back into place. It shouldn't be that way. The purpose of a journal should also be to keep track of happy memories.
Steps
Method 1 of 1: Keep Your Journal
Step 1. Make sure your journal reflects your personality
Some of the ways you can personalize your journal include:
- Add material souvenirs, such as movie tickets, receipts, flower petals, etc.
- Paste photographs.
- Make sketches or drawings.
- To write poetry.
- Choose the proverb or the goal of the day.
Step 2. Write essential information about you on the first page
You can include your name, your age, your best friend, your job or your school, as well as some of your hobbies and preferences. Someone also adds the note "Reward for those who find it", in case you lose it.
Step 3. Begin your first annotation by writing at the top the day of the week, date, time, and possibly where you were while writing
Write as if you were talking to your best friend, or to yourself, in such detail that you can remember what was happening at the time. Remember that things may be different in the future.
Step 4. Don't be afraid to even name your journal
Pretend it's a person, not an object. One day, he might become your best friend!
Step 5. You can write us your frustrations and joys, but also everyday things about your plans, your friends, and what you like to do
People often forget things, which they believe they will always remember, and these little everyday things will acquire special value for you in the future. Try to write positive thoughts to us as well. Being positive can help you in the darkest moments.
Step 6. Resume writing if you've taken a break
If you miss one or more days, or even a week, don't worry. Simply resume from the current day. Obsessively seeking to retrieve past events is the fastest way to lose interest in keeping a journal. If, after a few weeks, you still have the memory of something that you have not written down, it will come to your mind even later, and you can write it when you feel like it. Don't worry if you miss a day, a week or even a month. Nobody gives you a score.
Step 7. Read your old notes every now and then, and see what you think now compared to then
Only do it when you feel receptive! It doesn't help to be mean and to judge yourself "of the past" and then, in disgust, throw your diary away. Be nice to yourself and treat your old notes as letters sent from the "old yourself" to the "current one". Above all, examine how you have grown and how much you have learned from your experiences. At the end of the day, this is the real beauty of the diary, you will see how you have grown personally and emotionally and how you have strived to improve day by day.
Step 8. Keep it well hidden
It's a personal journal, and you need to keep it safe. A hollow book might be a good solution.
You can also hide it in different places, such as under the mattress, stuck under a chair or table, in a video cassette, in a shoe box, or in your jacket
Advice
- If you decide to re-read your previous notes and find something you don't like, don't scribble or rip the page off! Things of the past are different from those of today. In a few years you will be glad that you have kept track of everything you have done.
- Find a safe hiding place for your diary, so you can feel free to write anything in it without worrying about someone else reading it. Try to keep it in a place where you remember to write it down. If you keep it at the bottom of a drawer, you may forget about it.
- Whenever you have a thought that you can't get out of your mind, write it down. So, later, you can explore it in detail in your diary.
- Choose whether to decorate the cover of your diary with stickers, drawings, photos, etc. Be creative, and you will be amazed at how well you can express yourself in this way.
- Be honest with your diary. If you don't feel free to express your true feelings, there's no point in keeping a journal.
- Have fun with your diary. When you write, you shouldn't feel like you're doing your homework.
- Anthony J. Robbins, who keeps a diary, is of the opinion that "if it's worth it to live life, it's worth keeping track of"! Write your goals not just at the beginning of the journal, but keep them updated over time.
- If you really want to remember everything about the day, set aside some time in the evening to write. Maybe you prefer to write on the way home from school, or maybe just out of school. Every moment is good!
- Don't feel guilty if you add something to the previous days. You may need to leave some additional thoughts.
- Create a secret code that only you know. Create an encryption disk, or something similar, to help you remember the code, or write the code in your diary but moving the letters forward; then write yourself a riddle to help you remember the correct initial letter.
- Among the illustrious people who have kept a diary are: Leonardo da Vinci, Henry David Thoreau, George Washington, Maria Nikolaevna Romanov, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Sophia Tolstoy, Anne Hathaway, and undoubtedly the legendary Anne Frank
Warnings
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Don't compare your writing with that of others; each of us is unique, and therefore it is natural that there are differences in style and life.
If writing a journal bores you, you can write short stories or other topics that interest you
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Don't take it to school!
Others will be tempted to read it (after all, diaries contain secrets) and all your secrets will be in the public domain at school. Unless you want your whole class to know about your crush (or whatever, that's just one example) keep your diary safe at home!
- Write down anything. If you censor yourself, it means that you are not being honest with yourself.
- Make sure you always know where your diary is, especially if it contains important or embarrassing information! If it contains "ultra top secret" information, buy a padlock, or directly buy a padlocked diary, and hide it. Be careful not to forget it somewhere.
- Be yourself. You don't want to look back on your life like others.
- Make sure the ink doesn't spill off the page.
- Write only in pen. The pencil may erase or fade.
