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Why should we keep a Journal?

APSARA KATUWAL DANGOL

We have our life and we are passing it just for some important achievement but we don't know at the end of month or end of the year that what are we actually doing because we don't make every moment get recorded.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods. Robin S. Sharma





Facebook has been taken as the negative part of daily life as being addicted to it but if we see positively we get to revise our past days. But it only describes our failure or achievement as said earlier. Many of us, don't cultivate the habit of writing journal. If we do it, we just try it for some days and after some days we forget about it.


Why are we unable to do a task which is important for us? Not because we lack motivation. Everything we do has to be recorded because it gives chance for us to evaluate ourselves that where are we doing wrong and where we need to take a new step.


"Researchers say that successful people have a habit of record keeping."Researchers say that successful people have a habit of record keeping in a journal because it gives the track to their daily. So, what makes us to go behind? Is it lack of motivation or lack of discipline? It is lack of discipline. If our brain works same work for 28 days it forms a habit.


It becomes hard for some 10 days and slowly we will start liking it cause we can find a huge difference in writing journals.It always makes us alert and aware of our daily routines. It helps us to know where we need to go and are we connected to our work or distracted. So, when are you starting to write about the journal? Are you saying yes to disciplined life?

About Writer

Apsara Katuwal Dangol, is writer, educator, and psychosocial counselor. She writes articles which covers topics related to general and developmental psychology. She teaches to MA Clinical Psychology students as Developmental Psychology Mentor at Tri-Chandra College, and General Psychology at Shubhashree College of Management.




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