Keeping a diary can change your life by adding to it, if not a global meaning, then at least goals that can be taken for meaning. It doesn't matter if you keep a diary all the time, sometimes you write down important events or make stingy notes about valuable ideas. Keeping a diary is a technique that will help you achieve your goals faster, and if there are none, find something to strive for.
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about goals and ways to fulfill them, but it's not so easy to find a goal for yourself. By writing down your thoughts, hopes and dreams in a diary, you will get the big picture, from which it will be easy to get the goal. At least, it's much easier than just identifying it by sitting over an empty piece of paper.
By evaluating your thoughts and experiences in the diary, you can see what was hidden from consciousness due to the peculiarities of perception, understand what you really need.
There are many reasons to keep a diary, and it can be anything — paper or electronic, but the fact remains:
The diary helps to focus on dreams, make goals out of them and turn them into reality.
Here are some techniques for keeping a diary:
Let your thoughts pour out on paper without much thought. When you write in this way, your goals, dreams and desires without any mind control, like "are you crazy, it's impossible", are on paper.
Try to set a certain time for writing a goal and write without stopping until it ends. Most likely, you will be surprised after rereading what you have written, and you will be able to get a couple of new ideas from there.
Let's say you can't write down your thoughts every day because there is no time/no thoughts that you would like to write down/just don't want to do it. But it is still advisable to follow the sequence in your notes, even if you write once a week or a month. This will help you track changes in outlook, goals and plans.
When you have accumulated enough records, you will be able to see your goals. Now it's time to think about whether you are doing enough to make them come true, and what steps you are taking in this direction.
No one will read your diary except you, so be extremely honest with yourself. Maybe you will notice that you still continue to hide something and it is difficult for you to write about some aspect of life - this requires separate consideration.
If there are no such aspects, the diary should contain all the thoughts, even the most intimate ones, in which you will not dedicate anyone. Often it is in them that the secret of your happiness lies.
There is nowhere without self-reflection, and in order to move forward or decide where to move at all, ask yourself in your diary: "Where am I at this moment in life? Am I happy with everything here? Where would I like to be?"
This is not a one-time question that can be answered every five to ten years. Ask it more often, and answer honestly, then you will have less chance to constantly engage in self-deception.
When you have a terrible mood and a breakdown, reread the records of the good times, and you will find support in them. When, because of fatigue, it seems to you that you don't want anything more, just reread your goals, plans and dreams, and you will realize that this is just temporary fatigue, and life is full of good moments and goals to strive for.
Some people like thick leather-bound diaries, others are crazy about colored notebooks, others are comfortable writing on separate sheets and then stapling them together.
Choose a book (or program) that you really like, that will inspire you to write daily. In this case, you will not have to force yourself, and a lot of new valuable information will appear in the diary.
So, keeping a diary is an activity that can change a meaningless life, helping to define goals and begin to strive for them. Start as soon as possible, and you will have a lot of material to think about.
