If you’re curious about the concept of journaling, this post might just motivate you to get started once and for all. Here are three ideas of ways you can use your journal to grow as an individual.

1 Work Through Problems

Embarrassment, anger, sadness, stress…whatever emotion you’re facing, writing about it can help you work through it. Your journal can become a loyal friend if you use it correctly. If you keep it safe and write in it regularly, you’ll find yourself writing about thoughts and feelings that may have left you blushing or tearing up before. In this way, journalling is really a great tool that can help you get more in touch with your emotions. It can also help you work through problems you’re facing in your day-to- day life. By writing about something going on in your life, you’re getting it off your chest and you will instantly feel a lot better. Now, by reading back through it, you’ll begin to reflect on it and you might begin to see the events from a different perspective.

2 Make An Impact

You might soon begin seeing your journal as a way to hold yourself accountable. By getting in the habit of always being open and honest with your journal (and, therefore, yourself), you can begin finding ways to make an impact in the world around you. If you find tough prompts that help you reflect on your life and things that could have gone differently, you’ll begin seeing that there are many ways you can change the world around you, even with just a small gesture. You’ll soon find yourself logging about the little bits of positively you’re putting into the world, and you’ll find yourself growing in confidence and happiness as a result of that.

3 Change Yourself

We are all in a constant state of change. Some people start changing for the worse, growing exhausted and bitter, while others change for the better as they begin opening up their mind and seeing things as a more mature and confident person. Which way you change depends on how you perceive the things that happen around you. Journalling about the things that happen in your life can help you begin seeing that bad things aren’t happening “to you”, they are simply happening and there are many ways you can perceive them and even possibly influence them. Journalling will also help you realize that there are many positive things happening all around you, and it can help you begin to appreciate them more.