Life is an amazing journey and each day starts a new chapter in your life. But are you keeping track of your life and the different adventures that it brings?
If not, this might be the right time to start writing a journal that captures each day of your life and every brilliant thought that crosses your mind. Here are some of the most important reasons for writing a journal.
Establish Your Future Goals
Journal writing allows you to write down your experiences and thoughts and use them to identify your future goals and aims. Writing down even everyday experiences helps in identifying various mistakes that have been made or decisions that have proven to be unfruitful. This exercise will allow you to clarify the future course of action that will enable you to achieve your goals.
It’s Great for Problem Solving
Journal writing will help you to solve your problems more easily. Just like talking to a friend about problems helps reduces stress and provides relief, writing in a journal helps clarify the problems in your own mind and allows you to concentrate on finding a solution. Many avid journal writers believe that journals are similar to friends with whom one can share thoughts, problems and feelings.
Self-Dialogue
Writing a journal will result in your taking some time out for solitary purposes and can prove to be an important means of self-dialogue. Journal writers often believe that writing a journal provides them a means to express themselves and dwell over their experiences in life. This results in mental clarity and allows writers to connect to their inner thoughts and feelings.
Improve Your Writing Skills
An inevitable consequence of writing in a journal is that you will be able to build up your writing skills over a period of time. Not only will you note a drastic improvement in your ability to express yourself but this exercise will also allow you to improve your vocabulary as you find new and creative ways to describe the events of your day.
A Memory to Remember
Life changes rapidly and although certain significant events are stored in the memory, many other events tend to be forgotten. Writing a journal will allow you to keep track of your life and the events that took place. The journals can serve to be a valuable piece of writing later in life when you want to sit back and reminisce over the past years.
A Tool for Personal Growth
Writing a journal facilitates the growth process as you can establish goals, achieve emotional stability and connect to your inner self. Over a period of time, you will start to realize the small changes that affected your life and how writing those down helped you to avoid the same mistakes in the future.
Tap Your Inner Creativity
Writing a journal can prove to be an important way of relaxing and just letting your thoughts flow. It is not necessary that you write about your day’s experience. Rather you can write about anything that you feel is important for the day. Writing about the ideas that flow through your mind can allow you to tap your inner creativity and might also be helpful for individuals that want to identify their passion or interests.
So, I have really started taking time out for journalling. Have you?
Note: I took this article from Spreeder.com. I just liked what was written there. So I mostly have kept it intact, with some minor modifications.
