Your Habits Must Serve You; Journaling Is No Different

Do your habits serve you?

They should. Any habit you keep needs to serve you as long as you keep it.

It only makes sense that your habits will change as your needs change.

My journey with journaling is an example of this. My journaling has come a long way in 18 months.

I started journaling three simple sentences of gratitude. This changed my focus in life. I decided to dig deeper.

I explored writing what I looked forward to each day and what I dreaded. Gratitude helped me focus on what was positive in my life. I found I had less to dread. This became an unnecessary exercise.

After reading Julia Cameron’s, The Artist’s Way, I started free journaling whatever came to mind.

Free journaling helped me realize the power of journaling.

Benefits of journaling include identifying problems and emotions, how to deal with them, and planning your next step, just to name a few. 

My newest additions to journaling are reflecting on what I read and my day.

I expect my journaling to continue changing as my needs change.

A good habit will change to meet your needs. Journaling does that. You can start small and let it grow as I did. Three sentences of gratitude grew to two or more pages each day.

Let your journaling change as you change.