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16 Life Lessons I’ve Learned from Journaling

by Dolly Garland on September 17, 2012 in Journaling, Life Lessons

Tweet As I’m nearing the end of my 28th personal journal, I was thinking about how much of my life is in these journals, and how they have contributed to my growth. It’s a symbiotic relationship where life feeds journal, and journal feeds life. Here, I will share with you 16 lessons I’ve learned throughout the [...]

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Ask the Readers: Do You Feel Guilty When You Don’t Journal?

by Dolly Garland on September 10, 2012 in Ask the Reader

Tweet When you start taking things seriously, or when you make them into a goal, the guilt for skipping often seeps in. Journaling is no exception. A lot of people decide to journal, and when they don’t do it for a while, they feel bad. They tell themselves, “I should journal” or “I wish I [...]

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One Journal for Everything, or Separate Journals for Different Things?

by Dolly Garland on August 25, 2012 in Journaling

Tweet I go through this dilemma quite often. Currently, I am wondering whether I should have a separate journal to record inspirational quotes and my notes on why they inspire me. I’m also drawn towards having a separate journal for some personal development experiments I’ve got planned. To be honest, I know what my decision [...]

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Journaling: Blank Pages versus Ruled Pages

by Dolly Garland on August 21, 2012 in Journaling

Tweet Most journal keepers have their little idiosynchrocies. Little things that must be just so. As an avid journal keeper, I have many of those. I may have issues with cleaning my house, but when it comes to writing, I like it neat and tidy. If a journal is ruled, then I want to stick [...]

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8 Ways Journaling Can Help Simplify Your Thoughts

by Dolly Garland on July 10, 2012 in Journaling

Tweet I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. – Oprah Winfrey Do you often end up thinking yourself in circles? Whenever something is bugging me, especially something that’s causing me worry, stress or anger, I end up thinking in an endless cycle. I think about what I should do, [...]

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Why You Should Always Use Quality Journals

by Dolly Garland on June 4, 2012 in Journaling

Tweet Journaling is more than just putting words on paper. It is more than a jumble of notes. It’s a record of your life. It’s progress of your dreams. It’s a journey of self-awareness and growth. It is a medium through which you understand otherwise incomprehensible patterns and emotions. So a cheap notebook, with crappy [...]

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How Quickly Do You Give Up On Your Dreams?

by Dolly Garland on May 30, 2012 in Dreams

Tweet I was twelve years old when I first read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. It was possibly the first science fiction book I read. I didn’t even know at the time that it was science fiction. The book did something that no book had done before with that much impact. [...]

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