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by Jenny Rose
Top 10 Miraculous Benefits of keeping a Personal Journal
1. A journal will clarify your goals. As you write a few thoughts each
day, your ideas about what is important, what is worthy of your life and
your time will become much clearer. You'll automatically discover what
you really want in life.
2. A journal will simplify your life. Spending as little as 10 minutes
with pen and paper describing your values, noting your achievements and
giving thanks for the joys of life, will make you less tolerant of
life's distractions. Things become much simpler when you write them
down.
3. A journal will strengthen your relationships. It will give you time
and the words to express your feelings, it will help you understand and
be patient with your loved one's peccadilloes, and it will teach you to
love more powerfully.
4. A journal will make you more attractive. Socrates said, "Know
thyself." Keeping a journal will help you know yourself and express
yourself more clearly, and that is amazingly attractive!
5. A journal will empower you. Thinking with pen and paper forces you to
eliminate fuzzy or confusing images and "laser" in on precisely the
right word, the most powerful image to express yourself. Keeping a
journal will make you more a better communicator, and that can make you
rich!
6. A journal will eliminate temptation. Some ideas sounds great in our
imagination, but when written on paper they just aren't the same! It's
easy to blurt out "I hate my job!", but writing about what it means to
quit, change careers and start over will quickly result in one of two
things: The temptation will go away, or you'll start generating actual
plans to make your life better. Either way, you win!
7. A journal affirms the reality of your life. Writing about life adds
meaning and power. Journal your child's first steps or first tooth,
starting school, her first date and high school graduation adds
substance to these things. A friend of mine just became a grandfather
for the first time and a gave his son, the proud father, a fat 3-ring
binder of notes he'd written as he'd watched his baby boy grow 25 years
ago. Together they cried and laughed at the reality that life is a
sacred, wonderful thing.
8. A journal helps you be quiet. Journalizing has been called a form of
meditation. It has a similar power to quiet the mind and focus your
thoughts. It even has the power to turn off the TV! It can heal anxiety,
change your breathing and make you smile. What more could you ask?
9. A journal helps you speak out. Many of my articles, letters to the
local paper, and letters to friends began as notes in my journal. A
journal helps ideas become words, and it provides a nursery for words to
grow into sentences and paragraphs, until finally they need a stage on
which to express themselves. Sometimes that "stage" is a candle-lit
dinner, other times it's a protest sign or a letter to an old friend.
Whatever form it takes, many of those messages would never have been
born without the safety of a journal
in which to grow.
10. Finally, a journal just feels good! Using quality paper and a
fountain pen or other a beautiful instrument with just the right "heft"
and
feel is a wonderfully sensuous, delightful experience. It will cheer you
up, reduce your stress, make you smile and add to your life.
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