I love to buy diary and it’s kind of addiction with many nice designs but I only write on it daily for maximum 3 month. Then I skip few days and even months. Maybe some of you had experienced the same problem; it’s quite hard to make it as consistent habit. Worries your journal will be abandon like your old diary, here some tips for you and me, since I am also a beginner
1. Find journal tools
you love
Grab any books a pen or pencil,
you can start journal immediately.
I like to use just normal pen black and blue
ink and pencil. Most of time I use pencil, and sometimes color pencil for art.
My favorite black ball pen is Brilliant; needle tip fine extra smooth from
Faster that I bought from Rainbow (stationery store). It cost only RM 0.70 when
I first bought it, now the price is RM 0.80. I also recommend it to my friends,
and they also love it.
This is the exercise book, A5 size that I used for journaling,
RM 2.80 with 200pages.
Here is a page in my journal, trying
handwriting lettering. You can see the black ink is very smooth and fine.
And some doodles from my Art Journal.
You can also get nice, pretty
books like Moleskins, colorful pen, marker, that you enjoy using it and
comfortable when you write. It's all up to your creativity.
2. Get the idea of
journaling
Don’t find perfection in your journal. Journal is not an
official report that needs to be neat, clean. Its ok with all the mess you
made. Have you heard of “Wreck This Journal”? That journal was made to be
destruct.
Don’t force yourself to fill the journal books
Experiment different style of journaling like collage,
sticky notes.
Find Prompts. Prompts are great help to guide you in
journaling when you lost ideas.
Collect prompt that you like and put it in your
journal as reference later.
Be creative.
Here 10 Ways to get idea for journaling and be more creative
1. Read books, find quotes.
2 .Explore new things, DIY, life hack
3. Outdoor
activities.
4. Challenges yourself.
5. Socialize, volunteer
6. Keep up with trends, fashion, and current issue.
7. Visit exhibitions, museum, and galleries.
8. Get new hobby. Start a project on your hobby.
9. Make a list, goals
10. Entertainment. Listen to music, watch films and theatre
Benefit - Journaling
should be enjoyable, exciting, something that heals you, reduce your stress not
something that you feel burden to do it. It’s not like diary that has expiry
date, use them whenever you want.
3. Do record
everything
What are your other hobbies
beside journaling? Do you like reading, traveling, cycling, surfing internet?
Those are interesting topic you can include in journal.
For example reading, record the
purchase date, price, and where you buy the books. Then write things that give
you an impact while reading them such a dialogues, scene, character. If you
don’t like the ending; create your own story ending. No one will stop your
imaginations
As you go cycling, suddenly you
find beautiful flower, grab that and kept that on your journal. Make your
journal as information storage.
Record your daily progress,
insight and gratitude.
I find this video from Robin Sharma really give me motivation to write every day.
4. All in One Journal
Use a single book as journal. This
will keep you more focus and help you to finish writing in a whole book. Keep
it on your bed; whenever some great idea come, you have placed for brainstorm
the main idea. When you at outside, save the point in your Smartphone. This
tips can also be apply for gathering idea to write in blog.
Some idea that I get from other
blog and website actually is related. I wrote them in Journal and combine the
idea of :
1. How to start journaling
2. How to keep journaling
3. Benefit from journaling.
4. How to be creative
and summarize into a simple post.Journal helps you to organize your reference and resources.
Apart from that, I also have other journal
that I keep for my collection.
That’s some of simple tips that I find encourage me to keep
on journaling. Hope it will work for you as well.
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