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The Online Journal

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:33:49 +0000

Are you one of those who likes to keep a journal on the computer? Are you a blogger with a creative website full of interesting photos? I happen to be one of those people. I like keeping my journal on my computer. It is easy for me to sit down once or twice a week and write as fast as my hands can type. That is a whole lot faster than my hands can write. That way I can attempt to keep up with what is in my mind to put down in my journal. However, I do believe in a hard copy. I think there is something to having that book to flip through and read.

By ordering our blank sheets and following the directions for printing you can print your journal in book form and load it into your hard copy journal. You can also keep writing by hand now and then too. Sometimes we just aren’t around a computer; like when we go camping or on vacation where there is no access to our computer. Then we take the hard copy with us and hand write our journals. I believe that hand written journals mean a whole lot more to those who might read it in the future, but for our own convenience, using the computer is a great time saver. So do both. When you’re at home, use the computer. When you travel or are away from your computer; take the travel companion with you and hand write your journal.

Another fun thing I’ve done with my journals is to print pictures on the pages from my photo files. It works great and is so fun to see in color some of the things I’ve described in black and white.

For those of you with blogs; you can save your blog as a hard copy in your journal. It is a little more expensive if your blog has lots of colored pages – which they tend to. But it’s still a very fun option and a priceless memory.

Powerful Benefits of Journaling

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:10:59 +0000

Steve Pavlina, author of Personal Development for Smart People, dedicated a portion of his book to the importance of Journaling. Below is a brief summary of how journaling can play a dominant role in our journey throughout life.

3 other powerful benefits of journaling:

Solve tricky problems. Some problems are very difficult to solve when you’re stuck in a first-person viewpoint. Only when you record the situation and then re-examine it from a third-person perspective does the solution become clear. Sometimes the solution is so obvious that you’re shocked you didn’t see it sooner.
Gain clarity. A great time to turn to your journal is when you’re just not clear about what to do. Should you quit your job to start your own business? Should you marry your current romantic partner? Are you on the right track financially? It’s amazing how much clearer things become when you explore them in writing.
Verify your progress. It’s wonderful to go back and re-read journal entries from years ago and see how much real progress has been made. When you’re frustrated that your life doesn’t seem to be working out as you’d like, go back and read something you wrote five years ago — it will totally change your perspective. This helps you in the present moment too by reminding you that you are in fact growing and changing, even when it feels like you’re standing still.

Journaling a Creative and Healing Tool

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:49:22 +0000

Recently I thought of Journaling as a creative and healing tool. I like to write, especially poetry. Each time I write a new poem, even if it’s not great, I feel renewed. My poetry acts as a venting tool. I’ve discovered I feel the same way when I write in my journal. My life takes on new color. Whether I write about my children and realize how grateful I am for them, or I write about how frustrated I am with weight loss issues and remember that I can conquer them. Writing things down in my Personal Journal helps me to view things from a different point, usually higher up, as I am looking down at these words of my life written on each creative and healing page.

My Very Own Groundhogs Day

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:05:20 +0000

Sometimes I feel like I’m living in my very own Groundhogs Day. The same types of things seem to happen again and again. The other day I found myself frustrated in a re-occurring predicament. Sleepless nights were spent wondering what I had done the last time. That’s when I stumbled upon a genius thought. What if I wrote about what was happening, how it happened and what I did throughout? Not only would this be an emotion saver but it would also help with my life’s quality control. I would be able to read about mistakes made as well as successes experienced. Instead of loosing precious beauty sleep I could say, “Hey, I’ve been here before (or someplace similar). I’m going to go right over here to my journal and read about it.” Though my journal may be filled with ‘try, try again’ experiences, at least I would know what not to try.

Record Keeping

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:58:17 +0000

I recently read an article in which the author stated “I know everything I have experienced; nothing more, nothing less.”
It occurred to me that while the author may know the things in which they experienced throughout life, how would they remember them?
If we do not record the things we experience as we go we will forget what we once knew, and I fear it will happen sooner than we think.

A Great Way To Connect With Your 13 Year Old Son

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:53:18 +0000

Thirteen year old boys are not often full of voluntary information, emotion, reasoning abilities, neatness skills, or praise for parents. At least this has been the case around our house. All the things you taught them before they turned five – like brushing their teeth, saying please and thank you, picking up their toys and clothes, letting Mom know where they are, etc., etc., etc., just seem to disappear. Hugs and kisses goodnight also left the scene for sure when they became thirteen. It’s rather devastating if you’ve never lived through a teenage boy before. You don’t realize it isn’t a permanent condition. At any rate, its hard to connect with them at that age of life. So it was especially thrilling when I was able to enjoy a few moments of being considered an OK Mom or maybe acceptable or something like that.

For his English class, my son was supposed to write about his birth. When he announced that at the dinner table I thought, “Great!” The pressure is on. He’s not going to know anything about his birth. That means I have to come up with the events leading up to and including the birth of this child; an event that took place thirteen years ago. Heaven help me. If he had been an only child it might be easier, but he is one of many. This was really my assignment and not his.

Fortunately I am a journaler and have been since I was very young. Hopefully I wrote something of substance down, otherwise I was going to have to make something up. I went through my journals back to 1996 when this young son was born. I hadn’t made an entry on the day he was born – not terribly surprising but yet a little worrisome. However, a few days later there was an entry accompanied by feelings and descriptions of the newborn son. The words I used to describe him left my thirteen year old amazed. He even had information about the weather that year and other things that might be boring to just anyone. Yet to him they were interesting and gave him not only more to write about, but I do believe it left him with the knowledge that he was a very important, wanted, loved, happy, adorable (which he refused to put into his paper) little baby. What a self esteem booster. And as for me, boy was I relieved. I was so glad I had written things down. Best of all I had just experienced a genuine connect with my teenage son who spent more time than I expected reading other things about himself.

So, I’m encouraging young Moms to write. With the one-line entry option we have created in the Personal Journal it only takes a moment. You can elaborate later, when you have time. Just make sure you do it. Its like putting money in the bank and the returns are huge!

Personal Journal

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:17:47 +0000

The Personal Journal is an all-new unique journaling system designed to enhance and simplify your journaling experience. Don’t have time every day to write? Use the one-line entry page. Want to access your memories quicker? Organize them by year. Want to keep track of specific special events? Use the tabs in the back.

The Personal Journal makes all this possible! Your journaling experience can now go to a whole new level!

Size: 8″ x 10″

Includes:

50 lined sheets
PJ Organized Journal System
8 blank tabs
Travel Companion with 50 lined gummed sheets