Intelligent Change has provided us with a comprehensive guide to the different types of journals available. From self-improvement to musical diaries, there are many ways to track your personal growth and document your life. Whether you're looking for a way to document your reading list, practice sessions, or even your menstrual cycle, there is a journal for you. A self-improvement journal is a great way to track your personal growth and self-improvement.
Have a section for each area of your life you want to focus on (health, wellness, confidence, self-esteem, career, finance, etc.). You can also add a habit tracker to review your progress. A book journal is perfect for readers who want to document their opinion of a particular book or create a reading list. You can also use it to jot down your favorite quotes or lines.
If you're learning to play an instrument or write a song, you can use a musical diary. Write about the songs you are learning or listening to and make a playlist. Writing about your daily practice sessions can help you learn an instrument in a short time. Even if you don't play an instrument, you can make a musical diary to write about your favorite genres, bands and musicians.
A menstruation diary can be used to track the monthly cycle, flow, and emotional symptoms. It can help you plan your activities and trips by recording your mood for a month. It can also help predict your mood for the next month's cycle. Tracking your period can help you remember certain details with your doctor.
In a bullet journal, bullet points are used as the central structure when taking notes. It can be used to write things you don't want to forget or take notes in meetings, conferences and classrooms. You can also use it to record your goals, plans and to-do lists. A poetry diary is great for aspiring poets or poetry lovers.
You can write down your poetry ideas in the diary so you don't forget them later, or you can write your favorite poems to read them whenever you want. If you want, you can write about your favorite poets. A travel diary is perfect for documenting the places you have visited and writing about your experiences. It can be a collection of your adventures and memories or even just an itinerary.
The morning pages, originating from the book The Artist's Way, is designed to help artists and creative souls but it can really help anyone who needs “creative recovery” according to author Julia Cameron. The method is to sit down with your favorite notebook and pen each morning and write three pages of whatever you have in mind. The bullet journal, designed by Ryder Carroll to help “people with multiple laptops” simplify their lives, has become one of the most popular magazine structures of the last five years. There are millions of suggestions online and on social media that you can follow to set up your diary initially. Listography lets you go at your own pace while The 52 Lists Project challenges you to do one a week during the year. The questions range from “List the ways you can clean up your life for spring in the second” to “List the bad things you did as a child in the first”.In The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (one of my favorite twelve-week exercises), she assigns “pages in the morning, three pages first thing each morning of what you want to write, flow of consciousness style”.No matter what type of journaling style works best for you - whether it's self-improvement, musical diaries, bullet journals or morning pages - there is something out there that will help you track and document all aspects of your life.
