Journal Writing This information will help you get started to a regular writing practice. On these pages I give you all the help and guidance you need to get started. The motivation to start will come from your desire to develop a deeper relationship with yourself and others. “Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.” Claudia Black Help with Journal Writing
It is an intelligent exercise with profound results. If you travel a lot, think about using a small notebook that will pack into a suitcase and a larger one for home. If you always travel with a laptop and prefer writing on a computer at home too, then the mess I got into with daily writing will never happen to you! I have more than 25 partly filled notebooks on the shelves behind me. So the entries are all over the place with dates tumbling forward haphazardly. This happened because if I was backpacking, I wanted a small book. If flying or driving, I packed a larger one for my writing. In the early days, I sometimes forgot to take one with me and so had to buy another. Over the years, friends and family gave me beautiful leather note books I just had to use. And on it went. So before you begin, think about where you'll write and under what circumstances. Try to find a book that you’ll fill from day to day wherever you are. When it’s full, buy another. Later on, you’ll be able to look back to rediscover the person you were and see how much you’ve grown and developed over the years. A big suggestion is to avoid your inner censor. Don’t listen to it. “Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.” Give yourself permission to write what you feel. This is your life, these are your thoughts for you alone, unless you decide later to write a book. When and if that happens, you can decide the information to choose. Try to spend 10 minutes every day recording your thoughts and observations of life around you. If you want more directions, find a copy of Julia Cameron’s, The Artist’s Way . This wonderful book “guides you through a variety of highly effective exercises and activities that spur imagination and capture new ideas.” (From the back cover of The Artist’s Way .) I completed the whole twelve weeks of “morning pages” as Julia calls her writing program. I can’t recommend this program highly enough as a way of getting started on your new path. “Keeping a journal of your thoughts, experiences, insights, and learning promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context. Writing good letters – communicating on the deeper level of thoughts, feelings and ideas rather than on the shallow, superficial level of events – also will affect your ability to think clearly, to reason accurately, and to be understood effectively.” Stephen R. Covey Have a look at the following pages for more top information for building self confidence and self esteem. Self Esteem Exercises Self Esteem Activities Emotional Intelligence Public Speaking Journal Writing Prompts Self Esteem Quotes Setting a Goal Vision Boards Go from Journal Writing to Journal Writing Prompts Go to Self Esteem Home Page This material is for your personal use only. |
