Do you keep a journal? A trail of memories, one so precious it follows behind you reminding you of who you were yesterday. Just like a picture, a memory frozen in time at times can guide your steps. Keeping a journal entails a picture drawn so vividly with your thoughts and words. It is thinking aloud, projecting the conversations in our head in an organized manner to map our path forward.

Keeping a journal creates an opportunity for one to channel their inner selves, to converse with oneself, and get a clear picture of what is within. It allows you a chance to get to know more about yourself. Just like when we get to have dates with people we are trying to get to know, it can be equated to going on a date with yourself.

Wrapping the different facets that make you who you are. It is a collection of your ideas, and to record anything of importance you wish to get back to at a later day. Day after day we find our perception of life, our thoughts, and even our beliefs evolving and we need to keep these on the record as they show us how much we have grown.

Journaling can help you keep track of your decisions.

A journal is a tool to keep track of the important decisions that you make and serves as a reminder of why you made them in the first place. It allows you to lay down your goals in a clear and organized way. When goals are not written down, they forfeit their importance. To realize your goals, you need to keep track. For a goal to be realized there needs to be a plan put in place.  It allows you to make step by step plans to reach your goal.

You can ensure accountability and make it possible to go back and re-evaluate the progress of your goals concerning the plan detailed in your journal. Having a written plan of the path to your goals also allows one to be able to re-strategize.

It makes it fairly easy to sort through your thoughts.  It also allows you to understand your coping mechanisms. It allows you to improve mental clarity and focus by emptying your mind as you are writing down your thoughts. This gives you a better insight of how things are supposed to be.

Growth and progress cannot be seen when there is nothing to compare them to and journals facilitate that growth. The person you are has been molded together from your life’s experiences.

A journal is a way to document your experiences, the hurts, mistakes, joys, and lessons that have brought us to be where we are. Being able to go back and get a reference from your past experiences when your memory fails you is priceless. You get to refer to past lessons to give you an idea of how to handle the situations at hand.

It enhances your organizational skills. They are structured in a way where things are written in order. This in turn can help you to plan and structure your day, your week, your entire life. Knowing when to do what, in turn it can help you escape the fangs of procrastination. You get to structure your life into a clear vision on paper making it easier to follow through.

It is more beneficial to brainstorm when you are recording the thoughts flowing through your mind. When you keep a constant journal you rarely go through instances where you lose an idea to the wind because the very moment it crosses your mind you will write it down that same day before it becomes a fade in your mind. They expand your mind and keep you creative and innovative as every moment of writing down your thoughts gives you time on your own to discover your mind.

A journal can be a therapy tool. It is therapeutic. It can serve as a way to heal oneself from different kinds of trauma. It allows you to be free, to open up about your feelings, to embrace those feelings, and get to understand them.

It allows you to be vulnerable even without having to share your thoughts when you find it uncomfortable or having witnesses during those moments of vulnerability. You allow yourself to delve deeper into your relationship with your feelings and reactions, in turn, it can help you be more in control of how you react to situations. One could even work on their temper by resorting to writing down why they are angry and why they feel that way.

Our minds are not computers so we tend to forget stuff, journals serve to improve our memory ad to keep us self-aware. When you feel like you need a boost of inspiration and motivation getting back to your journal always gives you a good dose to push you forward.

Not only do you improve your mental health by decreasing stress but you also get to perfect your writing skill from the constant writing. Be intentional about keeping a it and watch yourself grow every day you self-reflect.

It can help you keep your life organized.

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