keep a journal every day for a year

One thing that can be a problem with goals on this website is that some can be continuous, and with those goals when do you know that you’ve finished? When can you tick it off? Something as general as “keep a journal” is one such goal. For that reason and for several others (such as making the goal easier and giving me a new lease of life for it), I’m hereby changing this goal from “keep a journal” to “keep a journal every day for a year”. I want it to be a “A year in the life of…” type thing. I also plan to combine this modified goal with my long-forgotten goal of learning something new every day.

I haven’t yet decided when I will begin this one. There will be three good opportunities in the next year though, so I’ll probably go for one of them. The first is the start of my third year at University, in October. The second is my birthday, in December, and the third is the start of 2009. Hopefully my next entry for this goal will be to say that I’ve started.

I’ve kept journals before, none of which have lasted for more than a couple of years. My most recent one ended nearly a year ago. I’m not sure why I stopped writing in it though.

I always wanted to keep a journal to document my life, so that I could look back and reminisce, so that I can save the things that my memory will forget in time. But since my previous journals have been filled with all sorts of ramblings as well as memories I always felt like I wasn’t really achieving what I set out to do and got a bit disheartened.

I’ve realised now though, that those ramblings do serve a very important purpose. They help me clear my head, get my feelings out and improve my overall happiness and well-being. Yesterday I started another journal. I don’t care what I write in it. I don’t intend to read it back in years from now. I’m just doing it to keep myself happy.