Six Reasons why you Should Keep a Journal

1. To keep yourself organised.

Having a journal will help you to organise your thoughts and plans. By being more organised and tracking your events, you can be more productive and achieve more in a day. Similarly, you can also log your daily thoughts, feelings, experiences and opinions, which allows you to look back at them later and reflect on them. Tracking how far you've come can be a positive experience when noting how you've improved over time, whether it’s improving a skill or realising a steady improvement in your confidence. Whatever it is, having a journal will allow you to track it!

2. To set and achieve goals.

You can set your goals and ambitions in your journal, whether daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly. By keeping your goals in your journal, you can easily monitor your progress towards achieving them. Tracking your targets is an excellent tool for motivation as we can often forget how far we've come when there is still a long way to go. When we look back and see how many challenges we've overcome, it helps to remind us that we can overcome future challenges as well.

We also often forget to reward ourselves for the smaller milestones, which are just as important as the bigger, more momentous ones. Having a journal reminds us to celebrate all of our triumphs.

3. Keep track of your ideas.

Keeping your ideas in a journal is a great way to record and keep track of them. You can also write them down on the go if you are out and about and inspiration comes to you. It’s also a good idea to have your journal on your bedside table at night for when you remember something you don’t want to forget or have an idea you want to look at again later.

Wherever you're going, you can take your journal and be ready for inspiration to strike you.

4. Relieve your stress and anxieties.

Writing down your worries in a journal is a great way to relieve yourself of them. Some people find writing down their thoughts, feelings, anxieties, and frustrations as a good way to free themselves of them, even if only temporarily. If not, writing down your thoughts and feelings are still a very therapeutic process, and you'd be surprised what you can achieve by doing it.

You can also use a diary to track your mood, which is beneficial for learning more about yourself and improving your overall mood.

5. To self-reflect

Journaling allows us to reflect on the past and ourselves. It’s a way to look back on ourselves and see how we've changed and how we can improve ourselves in the future. After all, as Aristotle once said, "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

6. To get inspired and be creative.

Journals are a great place to get creative and be inspired. It's not all just about writing down your thoughts and tracking your day-to-day life, your journal is yours, and you can do whatever you want with it. From drawing, painting, brainstorming, budgeting, collecting recipes, and more, you can include whatever you want in your journal -- the sky is the limit!

So, why not buy yourself a journal and start reaping the benefits today? You won’t regret it.