DECEMBER 18-19, 2014 BLOG POST #2 ABOUT JOURNALING (INCLUDING JOURNALING HOW-TO)

DECEMBER 18-19, 2014 BLOG POST #2 ABOUT JOURNALING (INCLUDING JOURNALING HOW-TO)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS BLOG POST

A JOURNALING STUFF BOOK WRITING PROCESS AND PLANS FOR PUBLISHING THE MATERIAL

B YOUR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS, AND STORY: FORMING A JOURNALING COMMUNITY

C DO YOU HAVE A JOURNALING BLOG?

D JOURNALING PROMPTS

E TYPES OF JOURNALS OR JOURNALING (A JOURNALING HOW-TO)

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A JOURNALING STUFF BOOK WRITING PROCESS AND PLANS FOR PUBLISHING THE MATERIAL

Written December 18, 2014, Thursday, 1130 a.m.

It's my goal to write a quick journaling how-to book between now and the end of the year. 

It's a blog to book series, in which I am working on Volume 1, which is the 2014 edition. 

I am including the material in daily blog posts in the meanwhile. Then, I will edit the material, and add to it, and will then publish it, so you can have a journaling resource at your fingertips.

Then, I will add the first half of 2015's material and do the same with 2014 and 2015a, then with the last six months of 2015 (2015b), I will take the material from before, plus the new material from the last 6 months on this blog, and will edit it and add to it, and publish it. I will do this for as long as I am led, and as long as you request it. 

Of course, I will offer the material in 6 month segments, and in multiple volume segments, for whatever is your preference and to help you save money. 

So far, since I started this blog post series yesterday, I have 27 typed pages and 8,939 words. So, we are well on our way. 

I am quite excited with the material so far and think it's a good introductory and refresher to the world of journaling. I surely hope you agree.

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B YOUR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS, AND STORY: FORMING A JOURNALING COMMUNITY

It is my hope that you will add comments to the end of any and every blog post so we can create a dialogue and form a journaling community. So, feel free to ask questions, make comments and suggestions, and share your journaling story and even your journal entries and blog. 

If you want to learn more about something, let me know. I will gladly share a blog post, or several, on the subject.

Let's talk about journaling and form a community. 

Feel free to email me, if you want to keep anything private. My email is:

RememberingYourPresent@gmail.com 

Thanks!

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C DO YOU HAVE A JOURNALING BLOG?

If you are a journalkeeper and have a blog, share the link with me/us. I will you to my journaling links list. All I ask is that you do the same with mine. Let's support one another. (Please let me know if your blog does not have a PG rating. I will make sure to put your blog in a different category in the list. And would still love to include your blog in the list.)

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D JOURNALING PROMPTS

{NOTE: If you want to know how to use journaling prompts the most effectively, if you haven't already, look in the blog post with the title of: "DECEMBER 17-18, 2014 AND JOURNALING: A BLOG POST (JOURNALING HOW-TO INCLUDED)" and can be found here at this link:

http://rypjournaling.blogspot.com/2014/12/december...}

I will include several journaling prompts per blog post from now on, so stay tuned. I will also put them in one list you can use. It is my goal, after all, to give you as many tools for the trade as possible and make it easier and more rewarding for you. Between this blog and upcoming blog books, I think you will have everything you ever wanted to know about journaling. It will just take some time.

ANOTHER JOURNALING PROMPTS TIP

Take every journaling prompt you do, do multiple SOSs, but also do it from the perspective of the present, past, and future. This will help you journal even more and go even deeper.

Here is the first round of journaling prompts:

1 What do you expect from your journaling?

2 When you think of a journal, what do you think of?

3 Who are you?

4 Who do you want to be?

5 No matter what time of year it is, look back over the last twelve months. Review them. What's worked, what hasn't, what blessings have you had, what have you accomplished, what have you learned, what have you experienced, what memories have you made, what do you want to remember, etc.?

6 What do you hope for the next year?

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E TYPES OF JOURNALS OR JOURNALING (A JOURNALING HOW-TO)

Written December 18, 2014, Thursday, 1245 p.m.

There are several types of journals or types of journaling. You might even say they are topical. Here are a few examples:

All-inclusive journal

Travel journal

Diet journal

Blessings journal

Prayer journal

Art journal

Motherhood journal

Love journal (marriage, engagement, anniversary journals)

Cancer journal

Photography journal

Year journal

School journal

Work journal

Family journal

Pet or critter journal

Month journal

Dreams/goals journal

Exercise journal

Reading journal

Writer's notebook journal

Memory journal

Recipes journal

Healing journal

Divorce journal

Venting journal

Bible journal

Bible study journal

Book journal

Fears journal

Hope journal

Faith journal

Decade journal

Life story journal

Scrapbook journal--paper or digital

Any topic you want journal

THIS BLOG'S FOCUS IS THE ALL-INCLUSIVE JOURNAL--HOWEVER...

This blog will focus mainly on the "Everything but the kitchen sink journal," aka "All-inclusive journal," or the "Etc. journal," or the "Misc. journal." However, everything said about those can be applied to your topical journal.

Now, here is where digital journaling is best and comes to play. I beg you to consider doing digital journaling for this reason alone. You can keep it all in one place in your All-inclusive journal, and then copy and paste portions into a topical journal.

That being said, if you do a digital journal, you can do a search and find all of your journal entries with that topic, so you do not even need to keep topical journals, if you don't want. The search features of a digital journal are one of its greatest benefits and positives.

That being said, again, there is nothing like having a topical journal, where everything is one place that applies to a certain topic.

So, experiment, and see what works for you.

I do highly recommend keeping at the very LEAST am all-inclusive journal. I would never do a topical journal instead of an all-inclusive journal. The all-inclusive journal is where you, and how you, get the absolute most out of journaling. The all-inclusive journal is where you will grow the most, and is where you will capture the most of your life on the page.

Happy journaling. Enjoy experimenting.

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​F JOURNALING BRINGS PERSPECTIVE​

Written December 18, 2014, Thursday, 122 p.m.

One of the most rewarding and life-transforming facets of journaling is how it brings proper and new perspective to our lives. It brings a better point-of-view. This is one of the main reasons why I journal.

Let's face it. Too often, we focus on the smaller, irrelevant things. We get bogged down thinking of things that don't really matter or aren't really that important. We fail to focus on things of meaning or the things that are eternal. Needless to say, we cause undue stress and frustration in our lives and we get off track. We are left feeling like there's something more. Journaling shifts this balance for us.

There is something very therapeutic, soothing, and stress-relieving about writing about something shallow, not of meaning, not important--just to get it out of the system, then have room to focus on that which has meaning and really matters. Once we vent the other stuff on the page, we clear our mind space for the things that matter and have true, eternal meaning. This creates whitespace in our mind, so to speak. It frees us. This is what brings perspective.

There are times I have to go on a tirade about something so I can let it go. I use my journal for that, so I do not ever need to vent to someone else. Venting at another can leave them feeling blah and they cannot help but carry some of that on their shoulders afterward. Venting in your journaling is the safe-place that doesn't have to be carried by anyone else and allows you the opportunity to let go. Then, once I vent, I am able to think clearly, logically, reasonably again, and focus on the blessings, and what really matters, not on superfluous stuff that does not really matter.

Journaling changes how I think. After all, it changes what I think. This brings perspective.

Journaling helps me to let go and move forward and stops me from being weighed down by excess baggage. This, too, brings perspective.

When I am able to see things from a fresh perspective, I am able to see my blessings and then count my blessings. I, then, have more to offer the tasks I have in front of me and have more to offer the people and critters in my life.

Journaling brings perspective and helps me to see things clearly. And, it can do the same for you.

How can you get perspective through journaling? Journal. that's how. Journal about anything that comes to mind. Then, focus on the blessings you have, for they are what really matter. They last for eternity. So, count your blessings, after you gain perspective through your journaling about everything else in your life first.

Journaling brings perspective.

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