“My journal provided the who, what, how, when, and why with a specificity that memory might have blurred, but it also did something more: it offered me a frank and unvarnished portrait of myself at 26 that I couldn’t have found anywhere else.” — Cheryl Strayed, Author of Wild
Good news: if, like me, you have a wealth of old journal entries to explore … you have a powerful resource at your fingertips for knowing yourself better, making better decisions, and achieving deeper insights. — Mark McElroy
”What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.” — Gabriel García Márquez
Seeing an old picture of yourself can be interesting because it reminds you of what you looked like, but reading an old journal entry can be even more surprising because it reminds you of how you thought.
- Journaling is simply the act of thinking about your life and writing it down.
- Journaling provides the opportunity to learn new lessons from old experiences
- Journaling generates value from introspection and retrospection
- How I Journal and Take Notes
- Number your journal entries for bettering indexing
- Everything is a journal if you revisit it
- Write journal entries for your future self