Keeping a diary

Keeping a diary is a valuable self-reflection tool and also a beautiful daily writing practise. Here's some writing prompts to help you keep a diary.

A list of the many benefits of keeping a diary or journal are outlined by someone who has kept one since grade school.

Since a diary is a very personal work of writing, there are no rules for how you write in yours. No matter what you use your diary for, it can be helpful to have one. Here’s why:

Ever wanted to keep a personal diary, where you would write your stuff? Well, your dream is going to come true! This blog post will help you know the secret to make your diary interesting! #diaryentry #howtomakediaryinteresting #journal

Do you ever feel like you need to get your thoughts and feelings out there but don't know how to start?

Do you ever feel like you're too busy to keep up with a journal? Or that diary writing is a little juvenile for you? Listen, I get it. But hear me out on this one: there are some major benefits to keeping both a diary and a journal. Here's what you need to know about each one and why you should use them both in your life.

Ten or a hundred or a thousand years from now, someone is going to want to know what the effect of the pandemic and the response was on ordinary people. They’re going to want to hear from people who never wrote for The New York Times or appeared on Fox News. Let’s leave good notes for them.

The best writing project I took on last year was what I call my logbook: a simple Moleskine daily planner in which I kept track of the little details of my day.

ABOVE: Variations on our Daily Diary practice “Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.”…