Remember the joy of keeping a diary when you were younger?
Why not recapture that feeling and rediscover the value and astonishing power of journaling?
This simple tool opens the door to the most amazing source of personal power and magic!
Try it for 21 days and observe the transformation.
Here's what journaling does for you . . .
Clarify Your Goals
As you write your thoughts each day, ideas about what is important, what is worthy of your life and your time will become much clearer. You'll automatically discover what you really want in life.
Simplify Your Life
Spending as little as 10 minutes with pen and paper describing your values, noting your achievements and giving thanks for the joys of life will make you less tolerant of life's distractions. Things become much simpler when you write them down.
Strengthen Your Relationships
Taking the time to express your feelings in words helps you to understand and be more patient with your loved one's quirks - and it teaches you love and compassion.
Make Yourself More Attractive
Socrates said, "Know thyself." Keeping a journal allows you to get to know yourself and express yourself more clearly - amazingly attractive!
Empower Yourself
Thinking with pen and paper allows you to eliminate fuzzy or confusing images and focus in on precisely the right word, the most powerful image to express yourself. Keeping a journal makes you a better communicator and that is empowering!
Eliminate Temptation
Some ideas sound great in our imagination, but when written on paper just aren't the same! It's easy to blurt out 'I hate my job!", but writing about what it means to quit, change careers and start over will quickly result in one of two things: The tempation will go away, or you'll start generating actual plans to make your life better. Either way - you win!
Affirm the Reality of Your Life
Writing about life adds meaning and power. Journaling about your child's first steps or first tooth, starting school, her first date and high school graduation adds substance to those things. The simple act of journaling helps remind us that life is a sacred, wonderful thing.
Active Meditation
Journaling is a form of meditation. It quiets the mind and focuses your thoughts. It reduces anxiety, changes your breathing and makes you smile. It even has the power to turn off the TV! What more could you ask?
Speak Out
Many of my articles, letters to friends, ideas for workshops have begun as notes in my journal. A journal helps ideas become words and it provides a nursery for words to grow into sentences and paragraphs, until finally they need a stage on which to express themselves. Sometimes that 'stage' is a cande-lit dinner, other times it's a protest sign or a letter to an old friend. Whatever form it takes, many of those messages would never have been born without the safety of a journal in which to grow.
Feel Good
Using quality paper and a fountain pen or other nice pen is a wonderfully sensuous, delightful experience. It reduces your stress, makes you smile and adds to your life.
