Many people keep a journal in which they write down their thoughts, what they do throughout the day, and how they feel. There really is no correct way to write a diary and it is such a personal thing, that each person shapes the character they like. However, there may be some guidelines so that those ideas that you are going to capture are more orderly and are more pleasing to the eye and if at any time you want to turn to your diary to remember a moment, that you know how to find it by having it organized. Here are some guidelines on how to write a journal.
Instructions for journaling
- Buy a nice journal. You can buy one of those that are already made and designed to be diaries, or you can buy a blank notebook and personalize it, so you will be sure that no one will have it like yours. Buy embellishments, stickers, and whatever else you want to put on the cover of your journal and customize it the way you like. You can put a sheet of paper with photographs cut out on the front cover and on top of it your name with letters cut out of the newspaper, or put an image of yourself.
- Buy a pen for your journal. And always take them together so that when you have a space and you feel like expressing your ideas you can do it without problems.
- Create a routine. Some people find it difficult to write daily, but if you really want to, to make it more enjoyable, create a writing routine, for example, every day before you go to sleep. Dedicate 5, 10 minutes or whatever you need but always around the same time.
- Each new day that you are going to write put the date at the top, and if you do it several times on the same day you can put ‘morning’, ‘afternoon’ or ‘night’ and so if you want to review any of your notes it will be very useful easier than if you put it all in a row.
- Use colored pens to add a livelier touch to your journal. You can put the date in a different color than the text itself and in the text itself, when something is very important or you want to always remember it, you can also write in another color, so the view will always go towards color and if you want to use It will be much easier for you to see it at another time.
- Use your imagination and be creative. A diary is something personal, think that nobody is going to read it, unless you want to, so you can put what you want and in the way you prefer. Every day you can use a different type of calligraphy, some colors, you can even put stickers to make it more fun.
- Your diary is a composition of your thoughts, but instead of saying them out loud, you put them on paper, so after each vent in front of paper, you will have to have a conclusion. Put it. You may change it or you don’t know what to put, but it doesn’t matter put something, it’s as if you were your own psychologist and you gave yourself the advice.
Tips for journaling
- Make your diary something special and beautiful, that when you return to it after a long time to see what you wrote, it will be striking. Use all the colors you want, the stickers that you like the most and a beautiful typography.
- If you don’t like to write by hand, or it bothers you to have to carry the diary with you. What you can do is an online diary, it will be less beautiful since you will not be able to put stickers, although you can insert images, but it will be faster and more comfortable and if you synchronize it with your mobile you will be able to write at any time.
- If you want to be more original with your diary, in addition to a cool cover with images, you can make a closing. If you buy a blank notebook in a store, it usually doesn’t have a lock, like a typical journal, so it will open without any problem. To do this, take a punch, which is the machine to make holes in belts, and a shoelace. Take the cover of the journal and make two holes in the center of the cover in front and at the same height but behind. Now pass the lace from the back to the front through the two holes, leaving the tip of the lace on the front face. Now all you have to do is thread the cord through each of the holes and tie a knot. In this way you will have a more personal diary and a very original closure.
- If one day you can’t write, nothing happens, think that you have decided to do the diary and that you have no obligation to anyone to write. Some days you will have more time and you can dedicate it and others, however, you will be more busy. The important thing is that when you get ready to write, you do it because you want to and because you know you’ll be more comfortable.