Why you should keep a diary. How different people keep a personal diary
Publication date: 09.10.2012Journaling is viewed negatively by many people as a waste of time. In this article, we’ll talk about how to start keeping a diary, why you need to do it, and what are the advantages of it.
stereotypes
Now most people have the opinion that only girls who are closed in themselves keep diaries. It is believed that brutal men and adult women do not need to keep a diary. In general, many people prefer not to start a diary, as they believe that they will waste their time on this.
However, many successful and famous people keep diaries. In Europe and the USA, keeping a personal diary is a matter of course.
Why didn't this good habit take root in Russia? People are just not used to it. Most Russians have a Nordic character, and therefore do not want to reveal their feelings to anyone or to a diary.
Why is this needed?
Everyone decides for himself the question of the need to keep a diary. Someone just needs to throw out emotions, someone needs a "silent listener" which is the diary. In principle, the diary allows you to solve many socio-psychological issues in your life. Let's take a closer look at this...
1) Diary and Willpower
The diary helps in achieving goals that require great endurance and willpower from you. For example, you understand that you have to train hard, but you do not have enough willpower for this. You realize that you are weak and your figure is bad, but you simply do not have enough “gunpowder” and incentive to train regularly. You train for about 3 days in a row, and then you quit ... Then you start writing in a diary everything that you think about training. And after each workout, you write in a diary about how the workout went and how you felt. As a result, you will have a certain incentive, a sense of duty to the diary (and therefore to yourself).
You can also write down plans for the future in a diary, which will also give you strength and perseverance. Re-reading previous entries will help you a lot.
2) Diary and Self-Consciousness
Write down all your thoughts, actions and feelings in a diary. And every day, read your previous entries made earlier. So you can look at yourself from the outside. Moreover, the greater the time gap between your entry and the date of its reading, the more you will be surprised. Those who keep a diary all their lives are very surprised when they read their old entries from many years ago. Those. the problems that you had as a child will no longer seem like problems to you.
By reading your notes, you will be able to logically and judiciously evaluate your life and yourself. Are you the person you want to be? Are you doing what you think is right, or are you following others? You will find answers to these and other questions in your diary :)
3) Diary and Experience
A diary can help you remember past experiences by reading your old entries. You can forget a lot, but a diary will never forget anything. A diary can be a tangible power and important knowledge if used properly. After all, what happened to you in the past can help in the present. A child's notes can be useful in old age.
4) Diary and Aggression
You should write down in a diary all the good things that happened to you. However, you need to be especially careful to write about what bad happened to you. Writing in the diary of negative emotions allows you to calm down and take a sober look at your anger. If you re-read your anger entry the next day, you might be surprised that you could be angry over such little things.
Agree, it is better to pour out all the anger to the diary than to someone close.
5) Diary and Life Purpose
Write down your goals in a diary. Write down what you consider your life purpose. Be sure to describe in detail what you see the meaning of your life. Subsequently, these records will help you navigate the future.
In addition, when you read your old notes, you will see that the purpose of your life is changing. What you aspired to as a child is very small compared to what you are striving for now. This is especially important for people aged 20 to 27 years. At this age, everyone thinks that they know the true meaning of life, although this knowledge changes dramatically every year. At 20, you dreamed of becoming rich, considering money to be the meaning of life, and at 21, you already want love and family happiness, considering that this is the meaning of life.
6) Diary and Brilliant Ideas
How often do you come up with really smart and good ideas? As a rule, we discard or forget most of these ideas, or consider them insignificant. Write down all your ideas in your diary, no matter what kind they are (stupid, crazy, brilliant, etc.).
When writing down any idea in your diary, be sure to write down the positive and negative aspects of your idea that prevent you from realizing this idea.
How to keep a diary correctly?
Only you know how to keep a diary properly. Write and do whatever you want with the diary, this is the point of keeping a diary. Buy a thick notebook or a special notebook. Ready-made diaries are sold in stores - you just have to enter your thoughts in special columns. You can scribble down all your ideas with a regular pencil, or you can write neatly with a set of colored markers and pens. A diary is a reflection of a person's mental state.
Diary on the Internet
If you start a diary on the Internet, then forget about anonymity. Of course, on most sites you can put down privacy settings, but why is this necessary? After all, you start a diary on the Internet precisely because you want to show your lifestyle to other people.
There are special sites-diaries. However, you can just as well start a blog (on LiveJournal or somewhere else). On a blog, you can write whatever you want and other people will see it. Get ready to be commented on. You may be told that your life is boring and mediocre. However, it may also happen that your thoughts turn out to be very close to someone. In this way, you can not only make new friends, but also become a popular Internet star.
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Erofeevskaya NatalyaWhether to keep your personal diary (in youth slang “ld”) is truly a personal matter for everyone, but teenage girls, girls and women for the most part prefer to open the cherished silent sheet of paper, rather than close friends. At the same time, creative and romantically inclined people do not have questions about how to keep a diary: they write what they want, draw according to their mood, write in and paste quotes, clippings from fashion magazines, pie recipes and other interesting things.
But if your own vision of your own diary is not enough, and you don’t even know where to start, this article is for you: ideas, recommendations, highlights, creative solutions will push you to individual style and creation. So, how to create, beautifully design a flyleaf and pages, and what can be written in a personal diary?
How to start keeping a personal diary?
With desire. If a girl or girl has a desire to keep her own diary just because all the girls in the class or university group have it, then this will immediately become a failed idea: the process of communicating with a paper friend will end exactly on the second page, when the passion for fashion has suddenly flared up subside. In the world of modern technologies, gadgets and social networks, the question will not be superfluous - why do you need, what does a personal diary look like and what should be in it: if the answers to these seemingly simple questions are not found, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe diary should be postponed for a while.
When deciding to keep a personal diary, think about the purpose - what will it become for you and what is its meaning?
The most obvious purpose of introducing a diary into personal life is communication: a thin or thick notebook or notebook will become the most understanding and trusting interlocutor that is lacking in social and public life. Another group of the female population will define journaling as an opportunity to capture the emotions of visiting interesting places, memories of significant events and impressions of meeting interesting people. And still others will keep a diary for introspection of their own actions, revision of the actions performed, reassessment of themselves and their mistakes, and reflection on successes. Everyone has their own goal- it is important to realize it, and then the personal diary will become a true masterpiece, and not a routine writing.
What will become a diary?
We will not consider in detail the version of the electronic diary: such are also a statement of one's own thoughts and a description of events, but not intended for internal use and for worldwide public readings. But just like with all modern gadgets, a significant mass of readers prefer books in the classic version than in audio or electronic, the same is the case with personal diaries.
The diary is a mirror of the human soul
Starting an electronic personal diary of a teenager on a computer or on a website can put some interesting or, conversely, a dramatic event, a meeting with old friends or a trip. Electronic diary on a personal computer has its advantages (a strong password, beautiful graphics for design, the ability to make an unlimited number of copies), but a special atmosphere, romance to the process of communicating with oneself and something nostalgic vintage give diaries exactly in paper execution, but here's what they should be, what kind of notebook for diary entries about life to start? And this is also a personal matter for everyone:
one will be comfortable writing on separate sheets of paper, which are always at hand, combining them as you write into a ring binder or organizers of paper materials of other options;
others will find comfortable ordinary school notebooks for 18 sheets or notepads, which can be put in a handbag - they do not take up much space and weigh almost nothing;
still others will approach the matter monumentally, starting thick barn book or diary under voluminous texts: descendants will undoubtedly appreciate the painstaking great-grandmother's work, which tells about the super-duper Seventh iPhone and the release of the next episode of Star Wars.
Keeping, writing and pictures for a personal diary - the style, design, size of inscriptions and drawings also play a role. When deciding what a personal diary will look like, one should not be guided solely by an attractive external cover: first of all, its owner should think about the comfort of entering your entries into it. And what is needed for the design of the first page of ld - this will already be decided in the process of working with it.
How long does it take to keep a diary?
How to start keeping and equipping a beautiful personal diary - the rules, as such, do not exist. As well as some official or generally accepted timing for filling it out. If you do not turn a pleasant activity into a daily many hours of recording each step, then It doesn't take much time to keep a diary.. You should not treat the diary as work: entries in it can be made hastily or in detail, but in any case, if there is desire and inspiration.
It is not by chance that the diary can be used as a planner of future affairs: it will show how much time is wasted with the hostess. Nothing to write about the last day, a couple of days, a week? - it makes sense to think: maybe time is just wasted? Such information will give impetus to a general mobilization and decisive action within the limits of one person.
Each girl or woman determines the mode of working with her diary that suits her: daily, weekly or situational
“When I want, then I write”- the correct answer to the question of how often to write in the diary. Obyazalovka will destroy a trusting relationship with such a friend, and talking about each line will not give either positive emotions or a pleasant result.
Another point that diary owners don't think about: re-read notes from time to time and desirable and necessary- this will refresh the memory of events and allow you to track how your thinking and assessment of situations and people's actions are changing. Over time, not only we ourselves change, but also our perception of the same dynamic, not worth a second of the world around us: such an analysis is useful and determines the degree of maturation of the individual.
How to keep a personal diary
Correct in this case - a synonym for "as convenient." You need to relax, stay alone with yourself, your thoughts, a pen or pencil (according to preferences) and a diary. You can not comb your hair and not, you are now nature itself. Those who have problems with the Russian language should not think about the rules of spelling and punctuation - write freely, even with errors.
For each entry, set the day, month, year - everything is forgotten over time, but the chronology will return to the exact event moment
Caution does not hurt when expressing: on the one hand, why then is a diary needed if you don’t pour out everything painful on its pages ?; on the other hand, one should not exclude the possibility of reading it by another person. And in most cases, it will be the bomb. Atomic.
How to sign and properly format a personal diary: tips and ideas
For adults, busy and working people, maybe the design of the diary is not so important - most likely, they would stop at an expensive diary with a dense stylish cover and elegant pages. But how to start and fill in the pages inside the LD of desires for a girl or teenager? For sure young ladies want something enchanting, sparkling and joyful- styles, ideas and photos of filling out a personal diary or diary can be viewed on Internet blogs, the Pinterest social network of pictures and similar resources. Or just come up with something of your own.
In general diary design depends on:
own desires and ideological vision of a new "friend";
creative skills (calligraphic handwriting, ability to draw);
available free time, which, without prejudice to study, work or family, can be spent on making entries.
Thematic pages and stories- a super idea, everything will be used here: from scrapbooking to stickers and Chinese calligraphy. For a trip to the sea, the page can be painted with soft blue watercolors, pearl beads and decorative colored sand can be added, the “forest page” can be perfumed with woody scented toilet water and decorated with pine or spruce needles - room for imagination.
Many already at the beginning of the journey think how to make the last page creative diary: perhaps someone will look at the idea of a stylized door to the future, their own poem, or just a beautifully executed inscription “To be continued ...”
There are no special rules in the design either - it is only important that the owner liked the diary. For young girls who have free time, magazine clippings and scrapbooking elements, appliqué materials, a set of colored gel pens and felt-tip pens, highlighters, glue sticks, self-adhesive rhinestones, decorative ribbons and paper, etc. will come in handy. Cute cats, cute bears, flower butterflies and angels are recognized as favorite girly pictures.
How to make it interesting and what to write about in a personal diary for a girl, girl or woman
describe emotions and attitudes- it is not the bare and boring facts that are important, the feelings caused by the situation are important;
you can throw out the accumulated verbally or graphically- as you like;
memorable exhibitions, visits to cinemas and theatrical performances, interesting trips, romantic dates will be reminded tickets and booklets, letters and notes of a loved one- if you want to store them at the end of the diary on the cover, it is recommended to glue the envelope and fold them there or paste them directly on the current page;
write down and draw gift ideas for family and friends;
do sketches of favorite models in boutique windows with the expectation to sew in the near future the same, but with mother-of-pearl buttons;
to increase self-esteem, it is recommended to paste in a diary own good photos, celebrate achievements and do not be shy to praise yourself for success;
rich in dreams, people are advised to write them down until they are forgotten, - dreams open the veil of the inner consciousness and experiences of a person;
women's diaries become a treasure trove quotes, aphorisms and funny anecdotes: the hostess of the diary, who does not rely on her own maiden memory, periodically reads them useful and brings pleasure;
useful phrases in English;
spending money, planning spending on purchases;
admired for their simplicity or sophistication cooking recipes;
words of favorite songs, poems, poems.
If you wish and know foreign languages, you can keep a diary in one of them: agree, personal diary in English is not only intellectual and stylish, but also a great practice for expressing your own thoughts and expanding your vocabulary.
The diary of married ladies most often represents an ascetic version: short, to the point entries without additional embellishments
Thick cardboard cover will make the diary safer, and the creativity of the owner of the diary will highlight an ordinary notebook or notebook from a bunch of similar ones, creating a small personal mood corner. With the help of master classes of the online community of needlewomen and available materials, it is easy to create own textile cover with elegant lace trim and sewing and / or rhinestones and buttons (felt ones look original and cozy, but are not so practical to use - they get dirty and worn out). Covers are easy to change depending on the mood or season.
To maintain complete secrecy, you can buy notebook or notepad with lock or find a secluded place in the room for a handwritten treasure away from prying eyes and prying hands. How much does your own diary cost? It is truly priceless, but not at all because of the beautiful expensive cover - the time and heart invested in its pages will eventually make this small notebook or book a family heirloom that future generations will treasure with tenderness.
Conclusion
And why is all this necessary? This question returns to the first point of the article - the goal. The goal of keeping a diary will become the motivation for filling it out: feelings and thoughts, perception of people and events, analysis of one's own strengths and weaknesses, fears, achievements and actions.
A personal diary is a letter to yourself in the future and news for yourself from the past.
The diary will become not only a way of self-expression: scattered and fussy people, he will help streamline both thoughts and actions, teach planning, consistency and structuring the presentation of his judgments. Recording is required by some for the development of detailed memory and a safety net against senile sclerosis.
A personal diary is not just a biography and a psychotherapeutic attempt to understand oneself, find harmony and: in some cases it is necessary for a detailed assessment of one's life. Keeping a diary involves a person trying to become better, wiser and make fewer mistakes in the future.
February 2, 2014What associations arise in your head when you hear the word "diary"?
I'm sure it's either something to do with school or romantic girls furtively writing poetry in a notebook under their pillows. Meanwhile, keeping a personal diary can be useful not only for schoolchildren and writers, but also for you. What's more, it can really. Below you will find six reasons why you should start making daily records of your life.
In our digital age, when information recording tools are experiencing a real revolution, the forms of keeping a diary can be very different and largely depend on your preferences. Someone may want to record video or sound clips for this, others will prefer to use one of the many special programs or, others will remain faithful to a good paper diary and pen.
No matter what tools you use, the main thing is strict adherence to two principles that have remained unchanged since the days of candles and goose feathers. Firstly, the diary must be personal, that is, inaccessible to a wide range of people, and secondly, you must be extremely honest with yourself, otherwise it all loses all meaning.
So what are the benefits of journaling?
What do you really feel?
A diary can help you become aware and articulate your feelings, which are usually hidden deep inside. Modern life often has such a pace that a person races like a horse at the races, ignoring his emotions and feelings. As a result, we have constant stress and mental breakdowns. Now you will have a legitimate time for introspection, which will give you a deeper and more realistic view of yourself, your life and work.
Point of view
We are bombarded from all sides with a flurry of information that contains dozens of very different opinions on various topics. The only trouble is that these are all other people's opinions. What do you personally think? Do you have time to formulate your point of view on the important topics of the day?
Let a couple out
Sometimes there are really difficult days. You are frustrated, embarrassed, defeated, angry, bewildered. It is even possible that you cannot talk to someone close about it. Keeping everything inside will drive you crazy. Get your emotions out on paper. Then read and smile.
Life is a great thing!
We read and hear many fascinating stories about different people. Why not write a bestseller called The Story of My Life? Imagine that your diary will be published after ... well, sometime later, and try to fill it with such events so that future readers cannot tear themselves away. This is a great way to make your life more interesting and deep.
Hello my Name Is…
Yes, do you really know who you are? Are you sure about your desires and goals? Get to know the real you. Many people are so entangled in job and family obligations that for them, filing an annual report and buying a fur coat for their wife can overshadow their real dreams. It's time to sit down and think about (and be sure to write down) your real aspirations. And a lot, a lot, carefully, but strictly, to delete from your life.
Message
Imagine that you were digging through the rubbish in the attic and found your father's personal diary. You drop everything and, unable to tear yourself away, leaf through page after page until the evening. Here he meets your mother... here is your birth... here he is worried about work... complains about his health... Have you imagined?
So why are you depriving your children of these sensations? They need to learn about you and what you really were.
Do you keep a diary?
Why keep a personal diary
So what is a personal diary? This is a place where not only the most intimate is recorded, or, to be more precise, this may not be there at all. A personal diary contains information that is important for its owner, and what exactly it will be is up to him to decide. However, if we talk about adults, then keeping a diary can be a very useful activity, and here's why:
Concluding the selection of reasons why you should keep your personal diary, I would like to say one more interesting thing. By keeping records of this kind, you have the opportunity to create the story of your life. People like to read biographies of other people, to see how they went to their success, what they encountered along the way, and why not create one for themselves. In the process of life, a lot is forgotten, but a personal diary will not allow this. Moreover, if you wish, you can pass it on to your descendants, so that they, without personally knowing it, can build the right impression about you - it's so interesting! Yes, and by yourself, after decades, look into your past, smile and remember what you were once upon a time ...
How to make a personal diary
Previously, personal diaries were kept exclusively in handwritten form, since there was no other possibility. Now, when computers have come into circulation, you can pour out your thoughts in print, in any text format. Moreover, especially brave individuals dare to keep records in the global world network, organizing websites and blogs. How exactly you arrange your diary is up to you, but before that, think it over carefully.
Working with a computer, and even more so with the Internet, is risky in the sense that it is very unreliable. Firstly, it is no longer personal, since a computer can be hacked, and on the Internet, content is available to other users. Secondly, the computer may break and all records will be lost. There is, of course, an option to store a text document on a flash card, but still that romance is missing here. The positive side is the wide availability. That is, if something unexpectedly occurred to you, you can always start keeping records, because a modern person always has either a laptop or a smartphone at hand.
Still, keeping a diary in a handwritten format is the most reliable in terms of safety. Here everything remains on your conscience. Of course, you can lose it, but it will depend only on you, and it’s easier to control yourself than a “soulless piece of iron”. You also need to store such records well enough, because you can’t put a password on it, which means that everyone who comes across it can read it. Think over such details and start writing.
How to decorate a personal diary
Keeping a personal diary is not just a “dry” process of presenting your own thoughts - it is real creativity. A decent "writer" will always have it decorated and supplemented with interesting details. All this, of course, is a matter of personal taste, there is no mandatory design rule, you can generally keep it as a simple diary, the main thing is that it suits you. And you can supplement the notes with various images, clippings and details that are related to what was written.
For creative individuals, the option of designing a personal diary in the style of scrapbooking is suitable. It will be not only beautiful, but also romantic and original. For decoration, you can purchase various stickers and stickers, they will enliven the image of the diary and give it charm. If you care about how your diary will look, then we offer interesting design options for inspiration.
What to write in a personal diary
A personal diary is personal for that, that everyone decides for himself why to keep it. In it, you can record interesting things that happened to you during the day, you can share experiences, make plans for the future. If we go further, then, as we have already said, one can write in it not only about the innermost and secret. A good idea is to make a themed personal diary.
For example, you have some kind of goal, maybe global, or maybe not, so dedicate a diary to it. Want to lose weight? Write about your daily routine - tell us how great you are that you didn’t eat a cake, although you wanted to, write about the first kilogram you lost, about victories over your laziness and the day spent in the gym. Do you want to grow up the career ladder? Start keeping a personal diary called "My Personal Growth". Write down step by step the steps you need to take and move towards them daily, writing down your, even the smallest, victories. Do you like to travel? Then keep a diary on the appropriate topic.
Whatever topic you choose, it should bring you pleasure. And this is a prerequisite, and everything else is unimportant. A personal diary is your space, your small but intimate world, in which there is only you and no one else. Use it to your advantage and be happy!
