Journaling:
One of the best steps to making meaningful change in your life is journaling. Capturing the thoughts in your mind is not only a tremendous outlet for you, but it also gives you a way to meter your progress in life. There’s nothing like going back in time and reading your very own words to remind you of the state of mind you were in at the time you wrote it. The proof is in the pudding so don’t run from yourself and take heed of your past journalistic entries.
I’ve kept many journals in my life and it’s amazing to remember that period of time, and how much I’ve grown since those writings. Journaling has kept me grounded as I take the time to reflect on my day and how I might improve on it.
Journaling can also double as an event planner as you remind yourself of all the important events that you aspire to be a part of. It’s great to coordinate your daily activities and then write about your experiences and how they had an effect on you.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of journaling and its lasting effect on your ability to make and keep meaningful change in your life. I will touch on the greater attributes of journaling throughout this book, and hope that it’s one of the first things you begin on in your recovery process.
The analytical mind processes information and then comes to a hypothesis on how to react to their database. Now analyze yourself when you scrutinize your own database. Make adjustments based on your honest feelings and try new things and write about them, too. You can’t go wrong when you journal, except if you incriminate yourself in illegalities, that may be best if you keep them to yourself instead of writing them down. So grab a pen and a piece of paper and get started, that is, if you still remember how to use a pen.
Creative Writing
Creative writing is a great way to inspire yourself into trying new and exciting things in life. My visions in life often inspire me to write just as my writings often inspire my visions. The creative mastery of the pen flowing on the paper is an age-old art that must never be lost.
When I heard about the schools removing cursive writing from their curriculum, I realized just how self-absorbed and obtuse these policymakers could be; what were they thinking, removing the easiest free flowing form of writing there is from the classrooms? If you are one of the unfortunate ones who lost out on cursive writing, I highly recommend you pick it up and use it in your personal journaling.
The great thing about real creative writing is you don’t have to leave a permanent cyber footprint to everything you write; you can sit back and relax and fill the pages with your every thought as you reflect on whatever enters your mind. I’ve been blessed when it comes to writing; God seems to have gifted me with an endless stream of subject matter to write about.
There’s no right or wrong when it comes to your own reflective writing, and if you’re like me, you’ll enjoy going back and reading your thoughts that you captured at that moment in time. Practice really does make perfect, as the art of writing will become easier and easier the more you press your pen to the paper.
Feel the ink come alive as the pages fill with your thoughts and enjoy the imperfect style of your writing as you revel in its uniqueness. There really is nothing that compares to it and I wouldn’t trade my pen and paper for anything in the world.
So grab you a pad of paper, or a journal, or a napkin if that’s all you got and capture the moments in time forever without them being in a cyber file forever.
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