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Encouraging journaling for goal setting, processing emotions, reflection, personal growth. |
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The purpose of this blog is to show how posting to a daily diary, even if only for minutes at a time, is potentially the most constructive, life altering routine you can add to your daily schedule - and best of all - it's FREE to do! |
| - translating experiences into language makes them understandable and provides emotional, physical and psychological routes to healing; - freeing yourself from becoming mentally tangled in traumas and baffling situations; - dealing with death and other tragedies; - addressing relationships; - addressing the past; - improving feelings of well-being; - improving mental health and happiness; - soothing troubled memories. |
| - revealing and tracking patterns and cycles; - acting as your own counsellor; - re-framing your approach to life; - directing intention and discernment; - improving sensitivity; - interpreting your symbols and dreams; - building your identity and sense of self; - becoming comfortable in your own skin; - offering new perspectives; - integrating peaks and valleys in your life; - exposing your place in the whole picture; - offering balance and harmony; - bringing things together; - helping to discover your voice; - helping to fully experience and understand your emotions; - identifying clarity and incongruities in your life; - forming your path in life; - improving decision making; - bridging inner thinking with outer events; - offering the opportunity to communicate your feelings in a tangible way; - unlocking the thoughts and feelings you might be disregarding; - recording subconscious breakthroughs and creative bursts; - acknowledging and dignifying all events; - being honest, trusting, non-judgmental; - the triumph of consciousness over the unconscious. |
| - self-discipline. Setting time aside to write is an act of discipline. Habits and discipline formed in one area of life have a tendency to spread. Discipline begets discipline; - self-promotion. Never be at a loss for words when the unexpected 'elevator pitch' moment arrives? Avoid stumbling through questions such as: 'Tell me a little about yourself?' 'What have you accomplished?' 'What do you want from life?' 'What motivates you?' 'Who are your heroes?...your idols?' 'Tell me some life-lessons learned.' 'What's your story?' - emotional intelligence. The ability to perceive and manage your emotions and that of others; - self-trust; - physiological functioning; - speaking in public; - management skills; - your marriage; - your friendships. |
| Posting daily to a personal diary helps with: - achieving goals - problem solving and decision making - reducing forgetfulness by capturing ideas when they occur - translating experiences into language making them understandable - processing emotions - understanding empathy and feeling what others are experiencing - providing physical, emotional and psychological routes to healing - becoming self-aware through self-discovery - favorably impacting your behavior, personality and character - developing self confidence - expanding your vocabulary, one of the best measures of overall intelligence - sparking creativity - developing writing, communication and public speaking skills - sleeping with an unburdened mind |
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