The Importance of Journaling part II

Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 09:09

There are so many different ways to journal, and types of journaling. Really, the sky is the limit.

Some ideas are:

1. Faith Journal - document your spiritual journey
2. Art/Creativity Journal - find your creative side through water colours, sketching, scrapping or whatever makes your heart sing.
3. Weight Loss Journal
4. Baby/Pregnancy Journal
5. 100 Things About Me Journal - I saw one of these at a yahoo group that I am part of and it was really neat. The artist had written different things about herself... past, present and future and decorated each entry putting several different points of interest on each page.
6. Geneology/Family Memories Journal - Write down those family memories along with photos and graphics before you forget the stories that your grandma told you as a child!
7. Personal Journal
8. Homemaking Journal
9. Home Decorating/Renovations Journal
10. Fiction Writing Journal
11. Poetry Journal
12. Quotes Journal - this is a good place to do some calligraphy and write out some scriptures, quotes, poetry or passages from favorite books that touch you in a particular way.
13. Travel Journal
14. Dream Journal
15. Wine and Food Journal
16. Garden Journal
17. Marriage Journal - write back and forth to your sweetie!
18. Adoption Journal
19. Memoirs - write about your life. Stories that you have been told about you as a child, memories from your life, things that you loved as a child, teen etc.

If you are, in anyway artistic using water colours, rubber stamps, twinkle H20 water colours, pencil crayons and other art mediums to draw in your journal to enliven the pages could be very theraputic and relaxing. I am not very artistic but I want to get a sketch book and start testing my hand at some water colours starting with the inexpensive ones and if I find that I can actually do something that resembles art, move my way up to the artist quality ones.

If you are concerned that you don't have anything to write about, there are numerous sites online with writing prompts. Join an online group devoted to journal writing and get ideas and support there. As for myself, I am quite able to write about the dreary, the humdrum, the potentially boring and love every minute of it. The way I see it, someone, maybe even a hundred years from now will find my mundane life fasinating in the same way that I find the lives of those who came before me fasinating.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 15, 2006 at 02:21 - Link

Is this supposed to cause internal 'Guilt-Trips'? Your persuasive assertions could cause imminent Journaling overload to all the paper/journal manufacturers and blogging websites. Was this your intention? If so you've probably succeeded! Love Ya!
-Brenda Lee

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Posted by on Friday, September 15, 2006 at 03:00 - Link

Brenda darling of COURSE thats what its supposed to do! Have YOU journalled today? *grin*

just a thought...

Posted by marthaskitchen on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 12:36 - Link

do you like to hand write letters to your friends also?
This is an art that is slowly dying & I have a friend in Melbourne who I exchange hand written letters with. I like to keep them in a pile tied up with twine on my desk - nice reminder of friendship...
Helen