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Don’t Journal Rigidly
Your journal is a space to write down your thoughts.
To be honest, it doesn’t matter if you use a physical journal or a digital one. It doesn’t matter what app you use or anything like that.
The purpose of journaling, really, is to reflect.
When we write, we tend to think in a more coherent way than when we just allow our thoughts to wander over things. Plus, we have the added benefit of being able to look back in future days and remember the things that we have written.
Something that I think is really unhelpful is the whole issue of rigid journaling templates. Rules that you have to follow in order to journal. You know the idea, there are thousands of them around.
The three good things would be an example, writing down things you are thankful for, what you ate, places you visited. The kind of template that walks you through a structure and requires you to write about certain things, that’s what I am thinking of.
The benefit of structure
I understand the idea. I really do.
Many of us, especially when you start journaling, have no idea what to write about. A blank page does not feel like a friend.
In fact, a famous author (I think it was CS Lewis but don’t quote me on that) used to think…
