Week 2 of 7
What do you seek to understand about yourself?
For everything, in every season, I recommend journaling.
I began journaling around the age of six. I remember my Mom buying me $1 diaries with a key and lock at Walgreens. I remember filling those dollar diaries up through the years.
I still journal. I’ve never been one to journal everyday about everything. However, I’ve always journaled about the most impact, thought proviking, happy, sad, hopeful, life changing things. I’ve chronicled my life through journeys, experiences, plans, processes, and trials of faith. When I feel stuck or confused or need any sort of clarity, I set aside time to write it all out in my journal.
Journaling is a tool for both learning about and teaching me about myself. It’s been a way to communicate things I may not be willing or able to talk about. To turn those things around in a safe space to examine and overcome.
As the leaves change and we settle into the cool weather, now is the perfect time to begin a new season of growth and self-reflection.
For me, journaling is a life chronicle I can return to and learn from. It’s a record I can add to. It’s a way of connecting dots and making sense of things over long periods of time.
If you don’t have a journaling practice and want to get started, I suggest buying a notebook with lines in a width you’re comfortable writing in.
Start with five minutes of quiet time. Locate where you are, what you’re thinking, what you would like to accomplish talking to yourself this way. Repeat this as often as necessary. Each entry will be somewhat different.
Slowly expand on what you write. Find a place that allows you to sit quietly and relax. Add time to your sessions. Begin analyzing your thoughts and feelings about situations, relationships, interactions.
Over time, you will find the words you write to yourself hold the best truth for your life.
Here’s a really practical approach to starting and maintaining a journaling practice by Nicolas Cole (@nicolascole77 on Threads).
4 Morning Journaling Prompts That Will Change Your Life:
1. “What did I do yesterday?”
2. “What am I working on?”
3. “What’s coming up?”
4. “What am I grateful for?”
The Teacher sought to find pleasing words, and he wrote words of truth plainly.
~ Ecclesiastes 12:10
Week 3: Talking to Others
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