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Journaling Is Note-Taking on Yourself (Try It, You Won't Believe Results)
A sparkling example of simple new habits making life better
Time goes on. Things happen outside and shape our inside. And we forget.
We are our experiences, but how aware are we of them?
Awareness requires trustworthy memories, and our long-term memory is too creative and selective to provide us with memories to rely on. We need alternatives.
The alternative I love is journaling.
One day, I found a notebook I had written many years ago. Reading my thoughts was an epiphany. At that moment, I traveled back in time and met myself, who told me about my life and aspirations at a very young age. It was an engaging experience, which I invite you to try.
However, beware that it's a game based on the willingness to wait. You journal today to re-discover its magic after years and, sometimes, decades.
How can you prepare for the foundational experience of meeting yourself in the past? By journaling now!
There are three straightforward approaches you can adopt:
- Chronicle approach
- Wrap-up approach
- Compound approach
