My current favorite thing is...
Writing a line a day, every day, in a little journal.
2015 is turning into a full, fun year for me...and it's only the beginning of February!
I'm currently:
-wrapping up reading a book each week for a year,
-planning my next year-long (or longer!) endeavor (coming soon to the blog),
-taking a picture each day for my Collect App calendar,
-focusing on being proactive,
-nurturing friendships (both old and new),
-becoming more comfortable in my kitchen by learning to cook more AND trying new foods (posts on these things coming in the next two weeks!),
-and I'm journaling again.
I used to write in a journal all the time. But that stopped about 10 years ago. Between moving in with my husband (habits change when you start living with another person) and the introduction of social media (and the blogging world, in general), my journaling changed. I still did some physical writing on paper but my attention shifted to blogging. I think it was in that time frame, about a decade ago, that I started my first "blog"--but it was really just an online journal that was marked "private" and not searchable. It was literally just a new place/format in which for me to journal.
My love for writing has not waned, but my focus in the 21st century has been online. This past December I was looking through our desk and in the dark corners of a very full drawer I found four empty journals. Gifts from my mom and my mother-in-law because they both knew how much I loved to write. Since I hate seeing things like this go to waste, one went to my daughter to draw and create in and I decided I'd try using one, too.
I wasn't sure if I'd like the act of physically writing daily or if I could even commit to doing it EVERY day so I decided to keep it simple. I'd do a sort of hybrid of a few ideas I've read about--a gratitude/line a day/reflection journal.
It literally is exactly what it sounds like. Each day (typically the morning after the day I'm writing about) I sit down and write at least one sentence about my day. Sometimes it's just a synopsis of what I did, other times it's filled with feelings and gratitude. Sometimes it's a (very) short sentence and once in awhile it's a paragraph. I also decided to only write on one side, with the intention of adding pictures to the other side. I don't print enough pictures and since I'm taking a picture a day for my Collect App project, some of those will fit perfectly with what I'm writing about. I won't be printing a photo each day, but I think adding one each week or so will give the journal some life.
I'm over a month in and I'm really enjoying it. If I didn't have all these extra journals, I would have just used a little planner to write in. There are a TON of cheap ones in the dollar bin at Target. I just picked up a couple--one is now my blogging planner. Easy to carry around and super easy to add to when inspiration strikes.
Do you physically write things out or are you more of a typer? Do people even journal anymore?
xo Sara