How to Write a Personal Journal

There are several benefits to writing in a journal. Writing in a personal journal allows you to have an outlet for stressful situations. You can vent about friends, family, and work problems that normally you would have to keep inside of you. Writing in a journal affords you the chance to reflect on your own emotions. Journals are also great tools for communication development. Daily writing provides practice for article development along with experience in writing your thoughts constructively. This practice will benefit you in your scholastic, professional, and personal life. Journals serve as a great way to capture memories. Reading a personal journal from an earlier time in your life will refresh your memory. You will be able to remember joys you experienced when you were younger that you may have forgotten.

Things You'll Need

• Journal
• Pen

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Instructions

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     Purchase a book in which to keep your personal journal entries. It doesn't have to be anything fancy.

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     Set aside time every day to write in your journal. It's important that you make it a habit. We live such busy lives that it would benefit you to set an alarm for the first several weeks to remind yourself to write in your personal journal.

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     Make a point to be alone when writing. Keeping a journal is about releasing your secrets so you do not want to worry about someone reading over your shoulder while you're writing. A good spot to write may be in your office or bedroom.

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     Write what you feel. You are not being graded; no one is reading your personal journal. If you feel like writing poetry one day, and something else the next, it's entirely up to you.