Metadata
- Author: James Clear
- Full Title: The Surprising Benefits of Journaling One Sentence Every Day
- URL: https://jamesclear.com/journaling-one-sentence
Highlights
Journaling is simply the act of thinking about your life and writing it down. (View Highlight)
Journaling provides the opportunity to learn new lessons from old experiences. (View Highlight)
Journaling sharpens your memory. When Cheryl Strayed wrote her hit book, Wild, she relied heavily on her journal. She recalled, “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.” (View Highlight)
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. (View Highlight)
Write one sentence per day. The primary advantage of journaling one sentence each day is that it makes journaling fun. It’s easy to do. It’s easy to feel successful. And if you feel good each time you finish journaling, then you’ll keep coming back to it. (View Highlight)
A habit does not have to be impressive for it to be useful. (View Highlight)