How do you start a beginner Journal?

At first, I started brainstorming the things I have to do the next day. Then, I gradually added my impression and thougts about how I felt.

Write you’re honest thoughts, considers you already know what you would write, you just have a different view on it once it is in the journal.

I started off with one or two pieces of loose paper so there no pressure to get it right and just keep adding to it throughout the day

To start a beginner journal you need the right motivation to right down your thoughts, events and feeling. The right motivation comes from within It is the desire and need to explore, a make better you. Without fear, just an honest heart to take off the layers that cover the through self.

I use an app called day one. Works for Mac laptops and iPhone well… I started with just 5 minutes every morning and 20 minutes on the weekend. Sometimes I end up just writing out the lyrica of a song I like to get going. I never pass any judgment on it if it’s “dumb” or my entry isn’t very enlightening, and two months later I’m actually surprised at the amount of insightful observations and ideas that come out.

I ordered A pretty notebook off amazon that really spoke to me. For me that was a floral one with the Jeremiah 29:11 verse on it as it was the hope that got me through my daughter’s cancer battle each day. I started Out just writing like prayers, thoughts, prayer request, daily things I was grateful for while being very specific. So for me each day is different. Sometimes it’s my vent session, others it’s my prayer time i always Feel soooo much better once I’ve journaled though. At first it seemed weird but now it flows freely and sometimes i have To just make myself stop writing.

With a template with questions, mine are: how was your day, what are you wins, what are your losses and how can I make tomorrow a better day?

Start a journal by buying one that you like and that sparks joy for you. Then begin writing- start a couple times a week, then once you get comfortable with it, pick a time of the day that you would like to set aside about 10 minutes for to write if it’s in the morning, you can feel right about your schedule for the day and your night sleep, and if it’s at night then you can reflect on your day and what went well or didn’t. Try to always include the date. If you would like to include art then you can incorporate that however you’d like as well. But I would start by picking up a journal and just writing.

I first start with gratitude. I list three things I was grateful for that day. This is what usually starts May for a journaling because it helps me focus on the positive side of life and see what was there as far as abundance. Go ahead and mention the scarcity that’s in the life but trying to feel how to move from scarcity to abundance and stop doing; try being. The other thing that helped was using the prompts that were at the beginning of writing in the journal with this program. Through the past present future exercise and that will help you at least get a start in your journaling.

That’s a good question. I’d made many false starts in my past lifetime but in 2008 at a private birthday celebration with my immediate family on my birthday I got a small hardback cute little deco design journal which I immediately set out to recording the day’s events. And that’s how and when I started journaling. You have to have something that really inspires you to actually sit down and start journaling and for me that private birthday party with my mother and sister where I was presented with that beautiful little journaling book was just the ticket to my recording. Of course it will take some settling into doing it consistently and I’ve gone several months at a time not recording in my journals but I always bring the recordings up to date in the most interesting and accurate way possible so as to keep the storyline moving and to bring the journaling task back into the picture. It kinda grows on you and it’s interesting to read about what’s taken place not just for the fun of it but just for the record as well in case it’s needed.