Manifesting Moments

Hey~

Turns out, it’s me. I am the one excited to read my old journal entries. There is a lot of good stuff in it! It reminds me of the happy person I am. How can I go through life deeply feeling all of its challenges and my journal is all the things I am grateful for?

My last newsletter prompted a lot of responses regarding journals. I know you’re on the edge of your seat to hear the responses…about half say they keep and reread their journals, the other half throw them away. I did notice a common theme. Most women in the generation above? Older? (what’s the right terminology?) keep a journal of daily occurrences. I feel like that generation (shout out to the Baby Boomers) started the 5-year-journals.

My husband keeps a journal–of the weather. That’s right. He can tell me the temperature, wind speed, and precipitation for every day for at least the past 5 years. I found out he was doing this roughly 5 years ago when we were debating if this is the driest summer we’ve had or if the summer two years ago was the driest summer. I felt pretty sheepish when he went back to prove himself right.

I’ve tasked myself with journaling more regularly. Sometimes I have a lot to say, and sometimes I don’t even want to listen to myself. Other times I question if I’m journaling “the right way” since I keep hearing advice to journal more. Aren’t I supposed to get better the more I do it?

Let me know your thoughts on journaling. Do you do it? Do you have an outline of what you write? Do you do it when you feel like it? Are you writing about feelings or facts? I’m curious.

Thanks for being here. You make this whole thing worth writing.

~Kreisa