Morning reflection3/1/2023 ![]() ![]() At the very least, I can put the day behind me, and the next day ahead of me. It lets me check in at the end of the day, maybe even look for a few silver linings, and go to sleep feeling happy with how things turned out. I can write my to-do's and goals for the next day, letting that weight lift for now so I can get to sleep. I know I won’t forget about it if something requires more thought I can come back to it another time. By dumping this all into my journal before bed, I can set it aside. I can toss and turn all night thinking about my to-do’s, planning stuff out, or even dwelling on how something went in the past. I find myself journaling before bed many nights as well something I like to call the “worry dump.” I’m one of those people who struggles to turn my mind off when my head hits the pillow. It doesn’t have to take very long, you can even write one sentence a day if you like, although I bet you’ll find that if you allow those floodgates to open, by simply free-writing and letting go of any “rules” about journaling, you can easily fill a few pages. This is something we often forget to do as we rush out of bed and into the shower and out of the house. I find that the morning journaling provides a chance to get your thoughts straight for the day, check in with where you are and how you feel, before any interactions from the outside world can begin to cloud your mind. These days I journal every morning (well, almost every morning), as part of my morning routine. "This is the entire essence of life: Who are you? What are you?" - Leo Tolstoy Tweet It! The Power of Morning Journaling / How to Journal in the Morning ![]() I found that looking back at my old journals came in handy for this exploration, as you can begin to see patterns in your habits and reactions and emotions and passions, ultimately getting to know yourself from an almost-outsider perspective as if reading a novel in which you are the main character. I continued on with a not-perfectly-consistent habit for a few more years after that conversation, growing stronger and stronger as I traveled, and especially as I began the process of figuring out what I really wanted to do with my life (something that I, apparently, hadn’t really contemplated before). Letting go of these pre-requisites made it much easier to pick up my journaling practice again. ![]() And I didn’t have to “catch it up” or write the current events chronologically. He gently reminded me that I could write only a little bit. I’d tell him how it felt daunting and time consuming, how my hand would start hurting and I didn’t always know what to write. Sometimes I’d say yes, when I had, and sometimes I’d say no. Every time we’d speak on the phone he’d ask if I’d kept it up. ![]() My uncle was an avid journal-er, to say the very least. I treated it like a captain’s log, recording every detail, writing all the things I thought I should write.Ĭreate your own Journaling practice with our free journaling tool: Reflection.app. So each time I went a few weeks without writing, the thought of writing became that much more daunting. I’d write to it like I was writing to a friend I felt I had to catch my journal up on everything that had happened since my previous entry. I wrote in it every day for the first month, then a few times a week, then a few times a month, then… months went by… almost a year… He told me to write document your life he would say.Īnd so I did. Christmas, 2005: my Uncle Ken gave me a journal. ![]()
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