How To Begin Writing A Journal For Yourself-Write About Your Life

 Keeping a journal is a useful way to learn more about yourself, you can routinely record your thoughts and feelings. Sometimes it is going to be painful to write about things that are unpleasant to you, but that is when you should write.  Get those uncomfortable feelings written down so you can reflect on them later.  Keeping a journal is also a beneficial way to keep track of things in your life like, medications your taking,  an illness you are grappling with,  exercise routines,  or just about anything you want.

Tips For Keeping Your Journal

• Write about events and occurrences going on in your life, focus  your thoughts and feelings about those events. If it is a magnificent wedding or a bleak funeral, write about how it made you feel.  Don't hold back. Acknowledge everything. 
• Get out as much as you can. Utilize your journal to compose  what you feel, it can be purely simple or complex. The most important thing is that if you feel like venting, it's better to let it out.  It is your journal, you are the only one who has to see it. Therefore,  be as honest as you can.
• Write for no one but yourself.  If you write with the intention of permitting others to read what you write, you may not be as forthright as you could be.  The the point is to be candid about what you are feeling. Expressing yourself truthfully through writing is discovering a way to understand your emotions, handle problems you have been trying to come  to terms with. Seeing it in writing makes it real and able to clearly work through it.
• Keep your journal out where it is visible to you, therefore you can write at a moments notice. You don't want to have to dig through a drawer or a shelf to find your journal.  You also want to be able to have a relaxing place where you can just write when the impulse strikes. If it is hidden on a shelf somewhere, by the time you find to it, your thoughts have evaporated and you don't feel like writing anymore. So keep it where you can see it. Grab it and start writing.
• Write every day, whether you feel like it or not, spend at least 15 minutes writing material.  It may benefit you to write at the same time every day.  Write as many times a day as you wish. Your writing will improve the more often you write.
• If you don't know what to write about, write about how your day began, how did you feel when you woke up.  What do you have planned for the day? Are there some goals you need to set? Friends you need to call, family you want to write about? Pick a memory about high school, someone you miss, a favorite pet,  there is always something to write about.
• Buy a journal you will enjoy using, perhaps with large or colored pages You want it to be functional, yet serve it's purpose.  I find a simple notebook is the easiest to use. Plain and simple. Some people like to draw, or sketch using paints or colored pencils. Or use your journal as a scrapbook. It is whatever brings out your creative artistic self.  It is your journal, use it how it will benefit you the most.
• Experiment writing in different places.  Some people like to listen to music playing to get in the mood, some people need silence. Others like to have the TV on for background noise. It is up to you, whatever you choose. Find that relaxing place so you can write write write.
  

• Write about your first love
• Write about the first time you drove a car
• Write about how you feel about therapy
• Write about your favorite animal
• Write about what you think of gay marriage
• Write about what makes you sad
• Write about who you would like to meet dead or alive
• Write about your first funeral
• Write about what kind of kid you were at 10 years old
• Write a description of your first apartment
• Write  about who is better, Blockbuster or Netflix-and why
• Write about the worst movie you ever saw
• Write about a poem that you like
• Write about something from history
• Write about your experiences in elementary school
• Write about trying to break a drug habit
• Write about who you love most

There is always something to write about even if you are having a non writing day. Just pick something simple. Anything and write about it. And before you know it, you have a journal full of creative writing. And your ready to move onto your next notebook.