Ideally you should write on today’s date page. Writing with pen on a paper has scientific benefits for your memory. Get hold of a physical diary where you can start writing daily journal. What matters the most is you write something everyday. Timing of the day doesn’t matter, how much you write doesn’t matter. Thus in place of a long term rigid schedule, you may go with short term (like a week) flexible scheduling for your writing. The chances of habit formation goes up significantly when our brain is convinced about the goal you’re trying to pursue and the plan you have to execute it. Our brain has this tendency of reducing motivation towards all flawed plans. Our brain gets the signal that our plan to write everyday is not succeeding and thus it’s a bad plan. This has a detrimental effect on our motivation. When you try to follow a rigid daily writing routine, there are chances of slip ups. Most important thing is to start and to continue. Make a gratitude list & count your blessings.Delve deeper into the powerful thought you had.For beginners let me suggest a few ideas from which you can pick one or more for any specific day – With time you will know what you wish to write. So just sit everyday, preferably at a set time and write. Regularly penning down thoughts creates a priceless repository of content which depicts your relationships, your state of mind on a particular day, your struggles, your excitements, your commitments and your failures.
The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” Louis L’Amour Journaling daily gives you a factual written chronological account of your growth as an individual. Over a period of time you will be able to analyse where you were going wrong or what was the piece of understanding which was missing at a particular point of time in the past.
It also journals the progress of your intellectual faculties. If you wish to learn the art and science of habit forming, I highly recommend Atomic Habits by James Clear It chronicles your growth Thus the chances of the habit getting permanent improves substantially. By writing daily journal about what habits you’re trying to inculcate in your life or by simply mentioning what repetitive tasks you did today, you’re committing to its continuity and recording its progress too. If you’re committed to self-growth you will have to dabble with lots of growth strategies, daily routines and rituals like exercising, reading, networking, getting your daily dose of motivation and so on. It’s the first step towards improving yourself. This makes you contemplate on how effective or how productive you were in the day gone by. There is an extremely popular adage, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Writing daily journal gives you that measuring tool in your life. It makes you a visual thinkerĪ little effort towards improving how you write can introduce you to the concepts of visual thinking like mind maps, storyboards, doodling, story-telling and more! It makes your writing more descriptive and vibrant. Moreover, when you have written something, it will be sketched in your memory for future. Don’t worry if that doesn’t happen on the day you start writing because eventually it is bound to happen. When you become regular with writing daily journal, the day gone by will flash in front of you. If you’ve to record something, you will have to recall it. I would say almost meditative, which brings internal stillness, which is must for any meaningful contribution to the world. At least for the time you write you become calm and mindful. Writing can become an exercise to awaken your mind, awaken your thought process, awaken your consciousness. Since we hardly spend any time reflecting upon the life we are living, it goes on unconsciously. Without any claim of being exhaustive, I will try to list a few for you to think about. Going back in the past will be easier and more relevant that way. It might sound common sense, but going date wise will create a better experience. I prefer my writings to be in a physical diary but you can have a digital equivalent of it. In our context we will restrict writing to the daily habit of journaling your thoughts. It also shows a mirror to the subdued consciousness with which certain days are spent. Consciousness in our action (and our inaction) infuses vitality and meaning into our life.Įveryday writing daily journal provides an opportunity to ponder upon the day gone or the day to come.
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