The Personal Journal

Price:  $24.99

Journal Specs

Size:

• 8″ x 10″

Includes:

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

How to Use the Personal Journal:

Systems can simplify, create convenience, organize, and liberate.  We would like to introduce you to our journaling systems and encourage you to give them a try.

All of our journals are loose-leaf ring binders, which allows you to add or take away pages at any point in time without destroying your journal.  They were created in a way that gives you the versatility to organize them as best suits your needs. The following suggestions have worked for many, but you are not locked in to this method.  The systems can easily be personalized to your unique needs.  Refills are available for all journals online or from distributors. For those who keep a journal on their computer, it’s important to keep a hard copy on hand.  We sell blank sheets that you can print on like a book.  They fit nicely into the journal.  Adding pictures here and there provides a wonderful visual aspect to your pages.

With every Personal Ponderings Journal you receive a “Travel Companion.” In the back of the ring binder you will find a gummed pad of paper that easily slips into the inside right pocket of your Travel Companion – just like a book of checks.

Take this little Companion with you when you leave home.  It is great to travel with, easily fitting into a purse or briefcase, keeping your journal safe at home, but allowing you to journal away from home.

Personal Journal – The first section, “Index to my Life,” allows you to write one-line entries.  Write down the most important thing that occurred that day,  date it, and you are done.  If you don’t write every day, it’s OK.   If you want to write more than just the one-line entry, you can.  Take out a sheet of lined paper, record the date in the upper right corner, record your entry and file it according to the date.  Put a check mark in the box next to your one-line entry reminding you that you have written more about that day.  Put a star next to the check mark if it is a very important day.  Enjoy the versatility of coming back to a one-line entry at a much later date to tell your story.  For most of us, the important days are too busy or emotionally charged to take time to journal.  A one-line entry reminds you to write about it later.

We provide you with 8 blank tabs to use as you please.  You should use some as year markers -  put the year on a tab and file your entries in order behind that tab.  You can use other tabs for different journaling topics like Goals, Business, Gardening, Workouts, Humor in the Family, etc.  When it comes time to write your memoirs it will be so much easier to do because of the “index” you have already created.

Testimonials:

Just the other day, I pulled out my teenage journal and gave it to my daughter so that she could see that I was also a typical teen long ago.  There is something sweet about a journal just in chronological order.                   However, as I pay attention to and record insights given me as an adult, I believe it will be valuable to more easily go back and reference those by topic.  That is why I think it is brilliant to have the journal-keeping system that Michelle Roberts has designed.                                                      I admit that my favorite thing is the travel pad so that I can take something slim with me when I anticipate learning.  I have recorded ideas and events that are very important to me, and I even believe that having some of these written by hand will be valuable in coming years.  Between a family record that I keep with photos, some events that I type on the computer, and my hand-written journal that can be organized – I feel pretty good about the ease of keeping records and their value to me and to my loved ones.                                                                                                                                                          Lorene Kamalu                                                                 Homemaker and Creative Memories Senior Director

I like this journal because I can personalize it however I want to – so much freedom!

Marinda Burningham  – Richmond,  UT

How simple it is to be organized – to be able to write and know exactly where it is.

Jamie Felix  – Brigham City, UT

I like the organization, everything in one book, easy to refer back to.

Debbie Christiansen – West Valley,  UT

The most attractive thing about this journal is that the pages are interchangeable between journals.  Index allows quick retrieval.  Self defined tabs!  –   Tamlyn Laurence,  Hilo, HI