keep a diary

How about hybrid diary writing? Once, in a group of 10 chatting after lunch:

me: (to FJ) Oh by the way FJ, I brought home your luggage bag. It’s upstairs now.
RG: Hmm… so what do you want FJ to say to you?
me: Uhmm… Thank you?
(chaos follows)

I am grateful for my JESUS.He is my best friend.

One surefire way to motivate your self to keep a diary is to answer three things a la 43Things:
- what did i do right today for myself, others;
- in what did i do wrong;
- how could I improve.
The entries you could come up with are really worth read again! Im trying it out myself now.

I started when I was 11, kept it up until i moved across an ocean and then lost it a year later. Then got a mac with AppointmentsDA and wrote a lot of entries (mostly about the weather and buying stuff) from 1993 to 1997… and i haven’t really felt like writing or blogging everyday since then. And yet here I am writing on 43T… but how good can the quality of info be when you can’t know what will be interesting many years from now?
Anyway, I think a digital searchable diary is a must. And some sort of disaster-resistant backup!

Every year since I was 7

lately I have sucked at this goal. I am so tempted to start typing as my way of journaling… but its so hard to leave behind my past journals. I’ve been keeping them since sixth grade (I’m a sophomore in college now). I just need some motivation because when stuff bums me out, I don’t feel like writing and when stuff is good, there is nothing to write about.

That’s right. I have tried so many times to keep a diary of what I have done during the day, then I realized that it’s not working. What happens if I have a bad day? I don’t want to remember that. So I tried a different kind: an emotional diary.

This one has been no trouble keeping. In it I write down my feelings and reactions to everything going on in my life. I don’t explain all the details just write off my frustration or joy or any other emotion. It really helps me to collect my self and see things more objectively. It has helped me to develop as a person and I have never slept better! Getting things off your mind is the best medicine! I strongly recommend it!

November and December of 2007 left to do now. Plus keeping up with my 2008 diary (which I am at the moment).

I think I’m just not organized enough for this but I would love to keep at least a diary or memories of my great adventures

Did some of my 2007 one today as well as catching up with my 2008 one. If I can just keep up to date (like not let it be several days behind too much) with my ‘08 one, then I can concentrate more on doing my ‘07 one. Think I’ve got a few days of October in the ‘07 left to do (then Nov and Dec), but I did do a few days of it today!