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To reflect at the end of the day  to check my progress towards achieving my goals and adapt my plans to overcome obstacles.

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To reflect at the end of the day  to check my progress towards achieving my goals and adapt my plans to overcome obstacles.

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To improve my physical fitness  in terms of flexibility and mobility by July, 2021

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To improve my physical fitness  in terms of flexibility and mobility by July, 2021

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CNN Chief Medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how your brain responds when you receive a compliment.

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Healthy eating is a whole lot easier when you're full and fueled. These wholesome recipes are packed with whole-grain goodness (from oats, farro, wheat berries and more) to keep you going strong.

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Healthy eating is a whole lot easier when you're full and fueled. These wholesome recipes are packed with whole-grain goodness (from oats, farro, wheat berries and more) to keep you going strong.

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Get all my learners on board for online learning with Zoom lessons

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Get all my learners on board for online learning with Zoom lessons

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Write for 15 minutes a day in my journal

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Write for 15 minutes a day in my journal

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I have been writing something about myself or my everyday for almost 5 years now. It has been one of the greatest and most freeing experiences in my life because I can actually slow myself down to think about what's truly happening around me as well as my part in it.

Most people treat journaling as something they "know they should do" but rarely ever take up the practice. And if they do, they fall off the wagon within a few months.

It doesn't have to be this way, especially when you learn about the amazing benefits of journaling. Here are 6 ways that journaling will change your life:

1. Dig into your true feeling

Journaling can help you get out of the way of what you truly feel on the inside. In other words, taken the time to sit and write about something that is affecting you can lead to a deeper and more realistic view of what feelings you are actually feeling.

When we are caught up in the "rat-race" of life, we tend to disregard our feelings and keep ourselves, busy and jaded. It isn't until we slow down for some time to let the feelings inside be what they truly are.

2. Give you a point of view

Another thing that journaling can give us is a better understanding of our own point of view as well as what others may think of a situation.

It's always thought to know exactly what others are thinking, but journaling can allow us to slow down enough to start to try to understand someone else's point of view.

3. Remind you of a life worth living

I like to think of journaling as "my life's story". That alone makes it fun, enjoyable, and inspiring to write a little about myself and what is going on with me every single day.

After you have journaled continuously for sometime and you look back on the things that you have written you may realize that your life is much more interesting and deep than you once thought.

In fact, if you are down on yourself a lot, journaling is a great way to get around this and discover that your life is truly worth living.

4. Reassure yourself of who you are

Do you know yourself? Without thinking too hard about it, you may just simply say, "of course I do," yet if you haven't done some serious introspection and work on who you are, chances are you may only know who you think you are.

This was definitely the case for me before I started writing for myself every single day. I thought that I knew what I liked and disliked, who I was, and where I was going in life.

But in reality I these aspects of myself were what I thought I should be; not actually who I was.

With journaling, I uncovered dreams and goals that I never imagine would be mine. I realized that there were so many things that I just couldn't stand to do and therefore gave myself boundaries to say "no" more.

Journaling can do this for you too. You can finally say hello to yourself.

5. Help you record your legendary stories

The idea of being able to write for your life and then pass that writing onto someone else, whether it be old friends, children, grandchildren, etc. is inspiring.

I could only wish that my father or grandfather would have been able to pass on something like that to me. It wouldn't have mattered if the words they wrote were deep or insightful; just as long as they were words that I could read and feel more connected to them.

You can journal every day and then pass this legacy on to loved ones later in life. They can learn about you and what made you tick as a human.

6. Build your serenity

Getting back to number one; when you start to write about your feelings and how situations in your life change your feelings you gain the ability to start to process those feelings.

Rather than leaving feelings completely bottled up inside, you can put them down on paper and get them out of your heart and mind so you can process and understand them more which will lead to a more serene existence.

This especially works well with feelings like anger, jealousy, resentment, etc. Putting these feeling out on paper and letting them take their course is a great way to stay balanced.

Final thoughts

The simple act of writing a few words, sentences, or paragraphs everyday can have a profound and instant effect on your life for the better.

Journaling can change your life. It makes you a more interesting person through the years and makes you feel more interested in your life.

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6 Unexpected Ways Journaling Every Day Will Make Your Life Better - LifeHack

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Keeping a journal is a tough practice. But you can be inspired to keep going by learning 6 different ways journaling will change your life. Then making it a habit will be a lot easier!