Why Journal?

Why should you journal? Why would you want to journal?

There are a million reasons to journal--and that is not an overstatement. I will list a few of why you might think about journaling or what you could add to your journaling. Why journal? Here's why. It's to help you...:

* Remember your life, memories, experiences, choices, and everything about every day.
* Achieve better health: mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and even socially.
* Lose weight or maintain your weight.
* Eat right and healthy.
* Get in shape and be the most fit you can be--and stay that way. To help you train.
* Gain a fresh point-of-view or perspective.
* Learn what makes you who you are. Self-discovery.
* Track your journey.
* Leave a legacy.
* Process things that have happened, or are happening, in your life.
* Financially, get out of debt, track what you spend, help you prepare for retirement, and help you save.
* List the pros and cons so you can make the best and informed decision.
* Figure out your life's purpose.
* List your dreams and then achieve them through the setting of goals.
* Achieve your goals, which lead you to your dreams.
* Vent and throw-up on paper. at times, we can have an ugliness inside of us that needs to explode. It's best to explode on paper and not at people, right?
* Track the patterns in your life and those stand-apart moments.
* Conquer and achieve pain management.
* Reduce stress.
* Reduce anxiety.
* Deal with your past.
* Remember the A-HA moments in our lives, the monumental moments.
* List why we are thankful or list our blessings.
* Acknowledge what God is doing, has done, and will do in our lives.
* Plan to live the most ideal life we can live--and live it.
* Plan for 5, 10, 20, and 25 years from now.
* Find encouragement when we need it.
* List our favorite inspirational quotes or scripture.
* Pray.
* Mediate on an inspirational quote or word.
* Figure out what we think.
* Figure out how we feel.
* Figure out where to go from here.
* Remember the people in our lives--no matter how short-term or long-term they are in our lives.
* Let us know what we need to work on in our lives.
* Plan a trip and vacation.
* Work through a problem.
* Live a better life.
* Creativity and imagination--so they soar.
* Inspire the muse.
* Be better writers.
* Write a book. That book we've always wanted to write--or the one we just thought of recently.
* Write our life story.
* Achieve success.
* Plan to have a baby.
* Raise the kid(s) we've got.
* Draw closer to our loved ones.
* Grow a stronger marriage.
* Grow a garden and appreciate it.
* Remember where we have traveled and to capture the memory of our travels today.
* Remember why and how we fell in love.
* Get through a divorce or break-up.
* Remember where we've lived.
* Remember our school days.
* Remember our workplaces.

~Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Writer